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DICTIONARY 



QUOTATIONS FROM ENGLISH AND 
AMERICAN POETS. 



BASED UPON 

BOHN'S EDITION, 

REVISED, CORRECTED, AND ENLARGED. 

TWELVE HUNDRED QUOTATIONS ADDED FROM AMERICAN 

AUTHORS. 



EDITED BY ANNA L. WARD. 



The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that 
everything must now be reduced to extracts." — Voltaire. 



NEW YORK: 

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Copyright by 

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1883. 



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PEEFAOE. 



T HA YE examined this Dictionary of Poetical Quotations 
-*- carefully, and, bearing in mind the multitude of diffi- 
culties which must have beset the making of it, I can hon- 
estly say that, in my opinion, they have been triumphed over 
by the maker. At first sight, it may seem easy to compile 
such a work. One has but to go through any dictionary of 
the language, and select as many of the words which are 
things as are likely to have inspired the poets, and then pro- 
ceed to illustrate these words with extracts from the poets, 

— the expression, words which are things, covering what is 
felt as well as what is seen, — whatever comes home to the 
business and bosoms of men, as well as whatever surrounds 
them in the material universe. This seems easy, I say, but 
a little reflection will show that it involves labor : not merely 
of the hand in transcription of the extracts to be used, but 
of the mind in determining what extracts should be used; 
the labor of reading scores of works similar to the one con- 
templated, and of devising* improvements for them ; and the 
labor of reading hundreds of other works, in order to pro- 
cure the materials for these improvements. In old Burton's 
time (the thought is his, not mine), men made books as apoth- 
ecaries made then" medicines, — by pouring out of one bottle 
into another ; but this is no longer possible, for reading has 
become so general that plagiarism is readily detected, and 
criticism so outspoken that would-be plagiarists are afraid. 
If books have not entirely ceased to be drugs hi the market, 
as publishers sometimes complain, it is not because they are 
still compounded after the old recipes, for every apothecaiy 

— I mean every bookmaker — is supplied with essences and 
flavors and tinctures of his own. 



iv PREFACE. 

Tliis Dictionary of Poetical Quotations ought to be the 
best that has yet been compiled, partly because it is the lat- 
est, and partly because it covers more ground and embraces 
more poets than any other. It may interest the reader to 
know that the two earliest collections of the kind were 
published in the last year of the sixteenth century; that the 
extracts in the first (if it were the first) — " Belvidere, or 
the Garden of the Muses " — were restricted to one line each, 
and chiefly to contemporary poets, and that the extracts in 
the second, — "England's Parnassus," — while not so nar- 
rowly restricted, were also from contemporary poets, the 
only early poet represented therein being Lord Surry, who 
had been dead but fifty-three years. These collections, 
though made in the Golden Age of English Poetry, are 
dreary reading : one reason being that their worthy editors, 
Bodenham and Allot, were didactic dullards ; another, that 
they failed to comprehend the greatness of the dramatic 
writing of their time. Five or six similar anthologies fol- 
lowed during the next century and a half, until at last the 
despised and neglected dramatists had ample justice done 
them. It was in " The British Muse," which purported to be 
edited by Thomas Hayward, Gent. "Whether the historians 
of English literature have discovered who Hayward was, I 
am not scholar enough to know. I only know that they give 
William Oldys the credit of writing the preface, and that it 
is an excellent piece of work. He passes judgment upon the 
earlier anthologies, and, concerning most of them, remarks 
of one, that the book, bad as it is, suggests one good obser- 
vation upon the use and advantage of such collections, which 
is that they may prove more successful in preserving the best 
parts of some authors than their works themselves. Pursu- 
ing this train of thought, Oldys states, in his quaint way, the 
necessity for such collections. " Hence we have long wanted 
a compiler, or reader-general for mankind, to digest what- 
ever was most excellent (the flowers) in our poets, into the 
most commodious method for use and application ; a person 
void of all prejudice, who would take no author's character 



PREFACE. m 

upon trust, but would deliberately review such of our poets 
as had seemed to expire in fame, rather through length of 
time, and the variation of our language, than want of merit ; 
one who had not only intelligence to know what compositions 
of value our country had produced, but leisure, patience, and 
attention to go through a vast diversity of reading ; with 
judgment to discern peculiar beauties amidst the obscurity 
of antiquated speech, and the great superfluity of matter 
that surrounds them, like stars in winter nights, with gloom 
and void : In fine, sagacity to discover the gross and innum- 
erable errors of the press ; fidelity, not to obtrude the officious 
alterations of an editor, under the pretence of restoring the 
sense of an author ; and capacity to dispose a great variety 
of select readings under their proper heads : All which attri- 
butes, as they rarely meet in the same person, seem to account 
for our not having had one collection of this kind of any 
great merit and utility. It is, however, by the idea of these 
qualifications the compiler of this work hath endeavored to 
conduct himself. How well he has succeeded will appear 
from the following sheets." I have nothing to add to this, 
except that I agree with Oldys in regard to the qualifications 
necessary in an editor of poetic anthologies, and that they 
are largely possessed by the reader-general for mankind who 
has digested whatever is most exquisite in our poets into this 
Dictionary of Poetical Quotations. 

R. H. STODDARD. 

The Century, 
New York, June 20, 1883. 



EDITOES PEEFAOE. 



rpHE present work is the American version of the latest 
-*- edition of Bonn's Dictionary of Poetical Quotations. It 
largely represents American authors, and embraces many 
additions from English writers. All the quotations have been 
carefully compared with the author's text, not one being 
included the accuracy of which has not been verified. Full 
references have been supplied in every instance. 

The quotations from Shakespeare's Plays have been veri- 
fied by Charles Knight's text, and those from his Poems, by 
Mrs. Horace Howard Furness's Concordance to Shakespeare ; 
those from the Old Dramatists by Routledge's edition ; and 
those from other authors, by the best editions of their works. 

Subjects have been grouped, and full cross-references have 
been made. 

Every quotation has been consecutively numbered, and a 
Concordance Index added, giving the prominent words in 
each extract twice or more, so that every passage can be 
readily referred to. 

The places, and dates of birth and death are given, with 
the authors' names, in an Index showing the quotations from 
each writer. In long poems the lines have been counted, and 
the extracts verified by a reference to the exact passage. 

It is believed that by these methods, and by the great 
sare observed in proof-reading, this volume will approve 
itself to the tastes and necessities of the ordinary reader, 
as well as to all literary and studious persons, containing, 
as it does, so choice a representation of English verse. 

ANNA L. WARD, 
New York, July, 1883. 



A DICTIONARY 



OF 



POETICAL QUOTATIONS. 



ABDICATION. 
I give this heavy weight from off iny head, 
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, 
The pride of kingly sway from out my heart ; 
With mine own tears I wash away my balm, 
With mine own hands I give away my crown, 
With mine own tongue deuy my sacred state, 
With mine own breath release all duteous oaths. 

1 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act iv. Sc. '_ 
ABILITY. 

I profess not talking : only this, 
Let each man do his best. 

2 ShaJcs. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2, 
Who does the best his circumstance allows, 

Does well, acts nobby — angels could no more. 

3 Young : Night TJioughts. Xight ii. Line 91. 
ABSENCE. 

What ! keep a week away ! Seven days and nights? 
Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours, 
More tedious than the dial eight score times? 
O weary reckoning ! 

4 SJiaJcs. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
It so falls out, 

That what we have we prize not to the Avorth 
Whiles we enjoy it; but, being lacked and lost, 
Why then we rack l the value. 

5 ShaJcs. : J\Iuch Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Though lost to sight, to memory dear 

Thou ever wilt remain. 

6 George Linley : Song. Though Lost to Sight. 

1 Overrate. 



2 ABSENCE —ABSTINENCE. 

Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, 
And image charms he must behold no more. 

7 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 3G1. 

No happier task these faded eyes pursue ; 
To read and weep is all they now can do. 

8 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 47. 

Of all affliction taught a lover yet 
'Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! 

9 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 189. 

Ye flowers that droop, forsaken by the spring; 
Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing; 
Ye trees that facie, when autumn heats remove, 
Say, is not absence death to those who love? 

10 Pope: Autumn. Line 27. 

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, 
My heart untravell'd, fondly turns to thee ; 
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, 
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 

11 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 7. 

O Love, if you were only here 
Beside me in this mellow light, 
Though all the bitter winds should blow, 
And all the ways be choked with snow, 
'Twould be a true Arabian night ! 

12 T. B. Aldrich : Latakia. 

last love ! O first love ! 
My love with the true heart, 

To think I have come to this your home, 
And yet — we are apart ! 

13 Jean Ingelow : Sailing Beyond Seas. 

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 

14 Thomas Haynes Bayly: Isle of Beauty. 

Oh ! couldst thou but know 
With what a deep devotedness of woe 

1 wept thy absence — o'er and o'er again 
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, 
And memory, like a drop that, night and day, 
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away ! 

15 Moore : Lalla Bookh. V. P. of Khorassan. 

ABSTINENCE. 
Against diseases here the strongest fence 
Is the defensive virtue abstinence. 

16 Herrick : Aph. Abstinence. 



.LB UNDANCE — A C TIOX. 3 

ABUNDANCE. 
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 
Of Vallombrosa. 1 

17 MUton: Par. Lost. Book i. Line 302. 
ABUSE-?« Curses. 

He is deformed, crooked, old. aud sere. 
Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where; 
Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind: 
Stiirmatical in making, worse in mind. 

18 Shaks.: Corn, of Er. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Thou thread, thou thimble. 

Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail. 
Thou flea, thou nit. thou winter cricket thou : 
Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant. 

19" Shaks.: Tarn, of the S. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

ACCIDENT. 

I have shot mine arrow o'er the house, 
And hurt mv brother. 

20 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2. 
As the unthought-on accident is guilty 

Of what we wildly do. so we profess 
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies 
Of everv wind that blows. 

21 Shales.: Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Our wanton accidents take root, and grow 

To vaunt themselves God's laws. 

22 Charles King sley : Saint's Tragedy. Actii.Sc. 4. 
ACCOUNT. 

Xo reckoning made, but sent to my account 
TTitk all my imperfections on mv head. 

23 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 
And. how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven? 

24 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
ACHIEVEMENTS. 

Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev*d. 
And then they shine. 

25 Beaumont and Fletcher: Loyal Subject. Act i. Sc. 5. 
ACTION — see Industry. 

The evil that men do lives after them ; 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

26 Shaks..- Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Pleasure aud action make the hours seem short. 

27 Shaks.: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Of every noble action, the intent 

Is to give worth reward —vice punishment. 

23 Beaumont and Fletcher : Captain. Act v. Sc. a 

1 A beautiful vale about eighteen miles from Florence* 



4 ACTION— ACTORS. 

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, 
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. 

29 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 21. 
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 

Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 

30 Fletcher: On an Honest Man's Fortune. Line 35. 

Only the actions of the just 

Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. 

31 James Shirley : Death's Final Conquest. Sc. iii. 
ACTIVITY — see Decision, Despatch, Energy, Promptitude, 

If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well 
It were done quickly. 

32 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. 
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, 

But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 

33 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 4. 
Take the instant way ; . . . 

For emulation hath a thousand sons, 
That one by one pursue. If you give way, 
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, 
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush bj r , 
And leave you hindmost. 

34 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Celerity is never more admired 

Than by the negligent. 

35 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 7 

ACTORS — see Stage. 

A strutting player, — whose conceit 
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich 
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 
'Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage. 

36 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act i. Sc. 3 

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 

That he should w r eep for her? What -would he do, 

Had he the motive and the cue for passion 

That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, 

&nd cleave the general ear with horrid speech ; 

Make mad the guilty, and appal the free, 

Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, 

The very faculties of eyes and ears. 

37 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Will you see the players well bestowed? . . . 

They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. 

38 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
The strolling tribe ; a despicable race. 

39 Churchill : Apology. Line 206. 



A CTOBS — AD VEBSITY. 5 

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, 
To raise the genius and to mend the heart, 
To make mankind in conscious virtue bold, 
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold ; 
For this the tragic muse first trod the stage, 
Commanding tears to stream through every age. 

40 Pope : Prol. to Addison's Cato. 
ADAPTABILITY. 

All things are ready, if our minds be so. 

41 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

ADIEU — see Farewell, Parting 1 . 
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile ; 
If not, why then this parting was well made. 

42 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Adieu, adieu! my native shore 

Fades o'er the waters blue ; 

The night- winds sigh, the breakers roar, 

And shrieks the wild sea-mew. 

Yon sun that sets upon the sea 

We follow in his flight ; 

Farewell awhile to him and thee, 

My native land — good night. 

43 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 13. 

ADMONITION — see Advice. 

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; 
And in the morning what thou hast to do. 
Dress and undress thy soul. Watch the decay 
And growth of it. If with thy watch, that too 
Be clown, then wind both up. Since we shall be 
Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree. 

44 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 76. 
Be wise with speed ; 

A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 

45 Young : Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282. 
ADVERSITY — see Affliction. 

Such a house broke ! 
So noble a master fallen ! all gone ! and not 
One friend, to take his fortune by the arm, 
And go along with him. 

46 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. % 
This is in thee a nature but infected ; 

A poor, unmanly melancholy, sprung 
From change of fortune. 

47 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3 
The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, 

The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. 

48 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



AD VEBSITY. 

Sweet are the uses of adversity, 

Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous. 

Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; 

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 

Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

49 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1 
Where you are liberal of your krves and counsels, 

Be sure you be not loose; for those you make friends, 
And give your hearts to, when they once perceive 
The least rub in your fortunes, fall away 
Like water from ye, never found again 
But where they mean to sink ye. 

50 Shaks. _: Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc.l. 
Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 

This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hope — to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; 
The third clay comes a frost, a killing frost ; 
And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely 
His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, 
And then he falls as I do. 

51 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; 
And, from that full meridian of my glory, 
I haste now to my setting. I shall fall 
Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 
And no man see me more. 

52 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

I am not now in fortune's power : 
He that is down, can fall no lower. 

53 Butler: Hudibras. Part I. Canto iii. Line 877. 

I have not quailed to danger's brow 
When high and happy — need I now? 

51 Byron: Giaour. Line 1035. 

Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, 
Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, 
Is that portentous phrase, " I told you so," 
Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, 
Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, 
Own they foresaw that you woidd fall at last, 
And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos mores," 
With a long memorandum of old stories. 

55 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 50. 

The good are better made by ill, 
As odors crush'd arc better still. 

5G Rogers : Jacqueline. St. 3 



AD VEBSITY— AD VICE. 7 

And fellow-countrymen have stood aloof — 

In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof ! ' 

57 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 66. 

ADVICE. , ' ^ 

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee ; 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silence envious tongues. 

58 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Give thy thoughts no tongue, 

Nor any unproportional thought his act. 

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel : 

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 

Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. 

59 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. & 

I shall the effect of this good lesson keep 
As watchman to my heart. 

60 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice ; 
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. 

61 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3, 

Love all, trust a few, 
Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy 
Bather in power than use ; and keep thy friend 
Under thy own life's key : be check' d for silence, 
But never tax'd for speech. 

62 Shaks. : All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1. 

A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, 

We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry ; 

But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, 

As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. 

63 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

I pray thee, cease thy counsel 
Which falls into mine ears as profitless 
As water in a sieve. 

6-4 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Know when to speak — for many times it brings 
Danger, to give the best advice to kings. 

65 Herrick : Aph. Caution in Council. 

The worst men often give the best advice. 

66 " Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Village Feast. 

1 Alluding to the wreckers of Cornwall. 



8 A FFECTA TlOy— A FFLICTION. 

AFFECTATION. 

Maids, in modesty, say " No" to that 
Which they would have the profferer construe, " Ay." 
Fie, fie ; how wayward is this foolish love, 
That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse, 
And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod! 
07 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 2. 

There affectation, with a sickly mieu, 
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen ; 
Practis'd to lisp, and hang the head aside ; 
Faints into airs, and languishes with pride; 
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, 
"Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show. 

68 Pope : B. of the Lock. Canto iv. Line 31. 

In man or woman, but far most in man, 
And most of all in man that ministers 
And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe 
All affectation : 'tis my perfect scorn ; 
Object of my implacable disgust. 

69 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 415. 

AFFECTION — see Friendship, Love. 

Why, she would hang on him, * 

As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it fed on. 

70 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Affection is a coal that must be cool'cl, 
Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire. 

71 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 387, 
Excellent wretch ! perdition catch my soul 

But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not 
Chaos is come again. 

72 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3 
Some feelings are to mortals given, 

With less of earth in them than heaven; 

And if there be a human tear 

From passion's dross refined and clear, 

A tear so limpid and so meek, 

It would not stain an angel's cheek, 

'Tis that which pious fathers shed 

Upon a duteous daughter's head. 

73 Scott : Lady of the Lake. Canto ii. St. 22. 
Years have not seen — time shall not see 

The hour that tears my soul from thee. 

74 Byron: Bride of Ab. Cantoi.St.il. 
AFFLICTION — see Adversity. 

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. 

75 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



AFFLICTION— A GE. 9 

We bleed, we tremble, we forget, we smile — 
The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry. 

76 Young: Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 511. 

Affliction is the good man's shining scene ; 

Prosperity conceals his brightest ray ; 

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. 

77 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 406. 

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, 
And is of sense forlorn : 
A sadder and a wiser man 
He rose the morrow morn. 

78 Coleridge : Ancient Mariner. Pt. vii. Last St. 

iFFRONTS. 
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; 
Old age is slow in both. 

79 Addison: Cato. Act ii. Sc 5- 

A moral, sensible, and well-bred man 
Will not affront me, and no other can. 

80 Cowper: Conversation. Line 193 

AFTERNOON. 

The sun has drunk 
The dew that lay upon the morning grass ; 
There is no rustling in the lofty elm 
That canopies my dwelling, and its shade • 
Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint 
And interrupted murmur of the bee 
Settling on the sick flowers, and then again 
Instantly on the wing. 

81 Bryant: Summer Wind- 

AGE — see Old Age, Years. 

When the age is in, the wit is out. 

82 Shaks. : Mich Ado. Act iii. Sc. d, 

Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, 
Xor age so eat up my invention. 
Xor fortune made such havoc of my means, 
Xor my bad life reft me so much of friends, 
But they shall find, awaked in such a kind, 
Both strength of limb, and policy of mind, 
Ability of means, and choice of friends, 
To quit me of them thoroughly. 

83 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1, 

His silver hairs 
Will purchase us a good opinion, 
And buy men's voices to commend our deeds ; 
It shall be said, — his judgment rul'd our hands, 

84 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act ii Sc. 1. 



10 AGE. 

Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful. 
85 Capel Lofft's Aphorisms. Published in 1812 

Pull of wise saws and modern instances. 

8G Shak. : As You Like It. Act Li. Sc. 7 

I know thee not, old man : fall to thy prayers • 
How ill white hairs become a fool and jester ! 

87 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act v. Sc. 5 

I am declin'd into the vale of years. 

88 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3 

All the world's a stage, 
And all the men and women merely players : 
They have their exits and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 
His acts being seven ages. 

89 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 

Her infinite variety ; other women 

Cloy th' appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry 

Where most she satisfies. 

90 Shaks : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 2 

You are old; 
Nature in you stands on the very verge 
Of her confine. 

91 Shaks.: King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

An old man, broken with the storms of State, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; 
Give him a little earth for charity ! 

92 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2 

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, 

But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long, 

Even wondered at because he clropt no sooner ; 

Fate seem'd to wind him up for fourscore j T ears ; 

Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, 

Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, 

The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 

93 Dryden: CEdipus. Act iv. Sc. 1 

Shall our pale, wither'd hands, be still stretch'd out, 
Trembling, at once, with eageruess and age? 
With av'rice and convulsions, grasping hard? 
Grasping at air; for what hath earth beside? 
Man wants but little ; nor that little long; 
How soon must he resign his very dust, 
Which frugal nature lent him for an hour ! 

94 Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 114. 






AGE—ALABM. 11 

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; 

You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill. 

Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age 

Comes titt'riug on, and shoves you from the stage : 

Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, 

Whom folly pleases, aud whose follies please. 

95 Pope ; Im. of Horace. Bk. ii. Epis. 2. Line 322. 

What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows, 
Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. 

96 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v Line 661. 

• We see time's furrows on another's brow . . . 
How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 

97 Young: Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 627. 

0, sir ! I must not tell my age. 
' They say women and music should never be dated. 

98 Goldsmith : She Stoops to Con. Act iii 

An age that melts with unperceived decay, 
And glides in modest innocence away ; 
Whose peaceful Day benevolence endears, 
Whose Night congratulating conscience cheers ; 
The general favorite as the general friend : 
Such age there is, and who shall wish its end? 

99 Dr. Johnson : Vanity of H. W. Line 293. 

Yet time, who changes all, had altered him 

In soul and aspect as in age : years steal 

Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb : 

And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. 

100 Byron : Gh. Harold. Canto iii. St. 8. 
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? 

What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? 
To view each loved one blotted from life's page, 
And be alone on earth as I am now. 

101 Byron : Gh. Harold. Canto ii. St. 98. 
AGGRESSION. 

You take my house, when you do take the prop 
That cloth sustain my house ; you take my life, 
When you do take the means whereby I live. 

102 Shaks. : M. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
ALACRITY — see Promptitude. 

A willing heart adds feather to the heel, 
And makes the clown a winged Mercury. 

103 Joanna Baillie : De Monfort. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
ALARM. 

What's the business, 
That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley, 
The sleepers of the house ? — Speak, — speak ! 

104 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. S. 



1 2 ALEXANDRINE - - AMB1 TION. 

ALEXANDRINE. 

A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 

That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 
105 Pope: E. on Criticism. Part ii. Line 156. 

AM AZEMENT — see Astonishment, Surprise. 

In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill. 

.For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still ; 

While words of learned length and thund'riug sound 

Amazed the gaping rustics ranged around ; 

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, 

That one small head could carry all he knew. 
10G Goldsmith: The Deserted Village. Line 211. 

But look ! Amazement on thy mother sits ; 

O step between her and her fighting soul : 

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 

107 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
They spake not a word ; 

But, like dumb statues, or breathing stones, 
Star'cl on each other, and look'd deadly pale. 

108 Shaks. : Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. 
AMBER. 

Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms 
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! 
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 

109 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 109. 
AMBITION — see Fame, Glory, Pride. 

Pain would I climb, but that I fear to fall. 

110 Sir Walter Raleigh : Written in a Window. 

Pling away ambition; 
By that sin fell the angels : how can man then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? 

111 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii Sc. 2 
I have ventur'd 

Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 
This many summers in a sea of glory. 
But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride 
At length broke under me. 

112 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Men at some time are masters of their fates : 

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

113 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act L Sc. 2 
I have no spur 

To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself. 
And falls on the other. 

11-1 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. 



AMBITION. 13 

Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber upward turns his face ; 
But when he once attains the utmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees 
By which he did ascend. 

115 Shaks. : Jul. CoBsar. Act ii. Sc. I. 
They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them ; 
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. 

116 Shaks.: Richard III Act i. Sc. 3. 
Keign, and keep life in this our deep desire — 

Our only greatness is that we aspire. 

117 Jean Ingelow : A Snow Mountain. 
Ambition has but one reward for all : 

A little power, a little transient fame, 
A grave to rest in, and a fading name. 

118 William Winter : Queen's Domain. 
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : 

Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. 

119 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 262. 
But what will not Ambition and Revenge 

Descend to? Who aspires, must down as low 
As high he soar'd, obnoxious, first or last, 
To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet, 
Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. 

120 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 168. 
What various wants on power attend ! 

Ambition never gains its end. 

Who hath not heard the rich complain 

Of surfeits, and corporeal pain? 

He, barr'd from every use of wealth, 

Envies the ploughman's strength and health. 

121 Gay: Pt. ii. Fable 15. 
Ambition is an idol, on whose wings 

Great minds are carry'd only to extreme ; 
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing. 

122 Southern : Loyal Brothers. 
The fiery soul abhorr'd in Catiline, 

In Decius charms, in Curtius is divine : 
The same ambition can destroy or save, 
And makes a patriot, as it makes a knave. 

123 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 199, 
Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, 

By mountains pil'd on mountains, to the skies? 

Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys, 

And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. 

"- i-2-t Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 74 



14 AMBITION— AMEBIC A. 

The true ambition there alone resides, 
Where justice vindicates, and wisdom guides; 
Where inward dignity joins outward state, 
Our purpose good, as our achievement great; 
Where public blessings, public praise attend, 
Where glory is our motive, not our end : 
Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, 
Brave men would act, though scandal would ensue. 

125 Young: Love of Fame. Satire vii. Line 175. 
Tame is the shade of immortality, 

And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught. 
Contemn'd, it shrinks to nothing in the grasp. 

126 Young: Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 355. 

Dream after dream ensues, 
And still they dream that they shall still succeed, 
And still are disappointed. 

127 Gowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 127. 
On the summit, see, 

The seals of office glitter in his eyes ; 

He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. At his heels, 

Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, 

And with a dext'rous jerk soon twists him down, 

And wins them, but to lose them in his turn. 

, 128 Gowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 58. 

Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. 

129 Beattie: Minstrel. Bk. i. St. 1. 
He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find 

The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow ; 
He who surpasses or subdues mankind, 
Must look down on the hate of those below. 

130 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 15. 
To th' expanded and aspiring soul, 

To be but still the thing it long has been, 
Is misery, e'en though enthron'd it were 
Under the cope of high imperial state. 

131 Joanna Baillie : Ethwald. Act v. Sc. 5. 
AMERICA. 

Poor lost America, high honors missing, 

Knows nought of Smile and Nod, and sweet Hand-kissing ; 

Knows nought of golden promises of kings ; 

Knows nought of coronets, and stars, and strings. 

132 Peter Pindar: The Bights of Kings. Ode ix 
America ! half brother of the world ! 

With something good and bad of every laud; 
Greater than thee have lost their seat — 
Greater scarce none can stand. 

133 Bailey : Festus. Sc. The Surface. 






ANCEJS TB Y— AXGEB. 1 5 

A.NCESTRY — sec Pedigree. 
The sap which at the root is bred 
In trees, through all the boughs is spread; 
But virtues which in parents slime 
Make not like progress through the line. 

134 Waller : To Zelinda. 
Nobler is a limited command 

Given by the love of all your native land, 
Than a successive title, long and dark, 
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. 

135 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 299. 
Nor does it follow, 'cause a herald 

Can make a gentleman scarce a year old, 
To be descended of a race 
Of ancient kings in a small space,. 
That we should all opinions hold 
Authentic, that we can make old. 

136 Butler : Hudibras. Pt, ii. Canto iii. Line 669. 
What cau ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? 

Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. 

137 Bope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 215. 
He stands for fame on his forefathers' feet, 

By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet ! 

138 Young : Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 123 
ANGELS. 

Heaven bless thee ! 
Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on ; 
Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel. 

139 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc 1. 
Pools rush in where angels fear to tread. 

140 Bope : E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 66. 
The angels come and go, the messengers of God. 

Nor, though they facie from us, do they depart — 

It is the childly heart : 

We walk as heretofore, 

Adown their shining ranks, but see them nevermore. 

Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, 

Groping our way along the downward slope of Years. 

141 B. H. Stoddard: Hymn to the Beautiful. 
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, 

But leave, oh! leave the light of hope behind! 
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, 
Like angel-visits, few and far between. 

142 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 375< 
ANGER — see Passion, Rage, Temper. 

Anger's my meat ; I sup upon myself, 
And so shall starve with feeding. 

143 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 2. 



16 ANGER — ANGLING. 

Anger is like 
/ A full-hot horse; who being allow'd his way, 

Self-mettle tires him. 

144 Shales. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 

What sudden anger's this? How have I reap'd it? 
He parted frowning from me, as if ruin 
Leap'd from his eyes : So looks the chafed lion 
Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'cl him ; 
Then makes him nothing. 

145 Shales. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2 

Never anger made good guard for itself. 

146 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Away to heaven, respective lenity. 
And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. 

147 Shaks : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

What to ourselves in passion we propose, 
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. 

148 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! 
Then with a passion would I shake the world. 

149 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

You are yoked with a lamb, 
That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; 
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, 
And straight is cold again. 

150 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Heat not a furnace for 3'our foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself : we may outrun, 
By violent swiftness, that which we run at. 
And lose by over-running. Know you not, 
The fire, that mounts the liquor till it run o'er, 
In seeming to augment it, wastes it? 

151 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. 
And her brow clear'd. but not her troubled eye ; 

The wind was down but still the sea ran high. 

152 Byron: Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 110. 

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; 
And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty 
Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. 

153 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. 

ANGLING. 
Thepleasant'st angling is to see the fish 
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, 
And greedily devour the treacherous bait. 

154 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



ANGLIXG — ANTIQUITY. 17 

Our plenteous streams a various race supply. 
The bright-eyed perch, with fins of Tyriau clye ; 
The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd ; 
The yellow carp, in scales bedropt with gold; 
Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, 
And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains. 

155 Pope: Windsor Forest. Liu e If. 
Give me mine angle ; we'll to the river there, 

My music playiug far off, 1 will betray 
Tawny-finned fishes ; my bended hooks shall pierce 
Their slim}* jaws. 

156 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

ANTECEDENT. 

Men so noble, 
However faulty, yet should find respect 
Tor what they have been ; 'tis a cruelty 
To load a fading man. 

157 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. 

ANTICIPATION. 

Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite 

To cast the fashion of uncertain evils ; 

For. graut they be so, while they rest uuknown, 

What need a man forestall his date of grief, 

And run to meet what he would most avoid? 

158 Milton : Comics. Line 859. 
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catchecl, 

And count their chickens ere they're hatched. 

159 Butler: Hudibras. Part ii. Ganto iii. Line 923. 

ANTIPATHY. 

Some men there are love not a gaping pig ; 
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat. 
. . . For affection, 
Master of passion, sways it to the mood 
Of what it likes or loathes. 

160 Shaks. : 31. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

ANTIQUITY. 
good old man ! how well in thee appears 
The constant service of the antique world, 
When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! 
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 
Where none will sweat, but for promotion. 

161 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc, 3. 
How his eyes languish ! how his thoughts adore 

That painted coat, which Joseph never wore ! 

He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin, 

That toucii'd the ruff, that touch'd Queen Bess' chin. 

162 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iv. Line 119. 



18 ANTIQ UITY— APPEARANCES. 

Ye distant spires, ye antique towers. 

1(33 Thos. Gray: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. 

APATHY. 

A man, whose blood 
Is very snow broth ; one who never feels 
The wanton stings and motions of the sense : 
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge 
With profits of the mind, study and fast. 

164 Shaks. : 31. for M. Act i. Sc. 5. 

APOLOGY. 

Forgive me, Valentine : if hearty sorrow 
Be a sufficient ransom for offence, 
I tender it here; I do as truly suffer 
As e'er I did commit. 

165 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 
APPAREL — see Dress. 

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear ; 
Eobes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold 
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; 
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. 

166 Shaks.: King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6. 
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, 

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich : 

And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 

So honor peereth in the meanest habit. 

167 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 

But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

168 Shaks. ; Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 

APPEAL. 
I have done the state some service, and they know it, 
No more of that ; I pray you iu your letters, 
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, 
Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice. 

169 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 

APPEARANCES. 

All that glisters is not gold, 
/ Gilded tombs do worms infold. 

170 Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
There is a fair behavior in thee, captain ; 

And though that nature with a beauteous wall 
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee 
I will believe, thou hast a mind that suits 
With this thy fair and outward character. 

171 Shaks. : Tw. Xight. Act i. Sc. 2. 



APPEARANCE— APRIL. 19 

Appearances to save, his ouly care ; 

So things seem right no matter what they are. 

172 Churchill: Bosciad. Line 299. 
By outward show let's not be cheated ; 

An ass should like an ass he treated. 

173 Gay: Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 11. 
Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern 

Mask hearts where grief hath little left to learn ; 
I And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, 
' In smiles that least befit, who wears them most. 

174 Byron: Corsair. Canto iii. St. 21. 
APPETITE — see Bating, Drinking-. 

Our stomachs 
Will make what's homel} r , savory. 

175 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 6. 
. Now good digestion wait on appetite, 

[ And health on both. 

176 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Why, she would hang on him, 

As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it feci on. 

177 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, 

Nor seeks for sauce where appetite stands cook. 

178 v. Churchill: Gotham, iii. Line 133. 
APPLAUSE. 

I would applaud thee to the very echo, 
That should applaud again. 

179 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3. 
Such a noise arose 

As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest, 
As loud and to as many tunes, — hats, cloaks, 
Doublets, I think flew up ; aud had their faces 
Been loose, this day they had beeu lost. 

180 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. L 
Your deeds are known 

In words that kindle glory from the stone. 

181 Schiller: The Walk. 
Oh popular applause ! what heart of man 

Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? 

182 Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 481. 
APRIL. 

Again the blackbirds sing ; the streams 
Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, 
And tremble in the April showers 
The tassels of the maple flowers. 

183 Whittier : The Singer. St. 20. 



20 ArriL. 

Sweet April! many a thought 
Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed : 
Nor shall they fail till, to its autumn brought, 
Life's golden fruit is shed. 

184 Longfellow : An April Day. St 8. 
April cold with droppiug rain 

Willows and lilacs brings again, 
The whistle of returning birds, 
And trumpet-lowing of the herds ; 
The scarlet maple-keys betray 
What potent blood hath modest May ; 
What fiery force the earth renews, 
The wealth of forms, the flush of hues; 
What Joy in rosy waves outpoured, 
Flows from the heart of Love, the Lord. 

185 Emerson : Hay-day. Line 124. 
I saw the Days deformed and low, 

Short and bent by cold and ^now ; 

The merry Spring threw wreaths on them, 

Llower-wreaths gay with bud and bell; 

Many a flower and many a gem, 

They were refreshed by the smell, 

They shook the snow from hats and shoon, 

They put their April raiment on. 

186 Emerson: Hay-day. Line 307 

Sweet April's tears, 
Dead on the hem of May. 

187 Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Sc. viii, 

Ah. month that comes with rainbows crowned, 
And golden shadows dressed — 
Constant to her inconstancy. 
And faithful to unrest. 

188 Alice Cary : April. 

Come, loveliest season of the year. 
And every quickened pulse shall beat, 
Your footsteps in the grass to hear, 
And feel your kisses soft and sweet. 

189 Phoebe Cary: Spring After the War, 

Come up, April, through the valley, 
In your robes of beauty drest, 
Come and wake your flowery children 
From their wintry beds of rest. 
Come and overblow them softly 
With the sweet breath of the south ; 
Drop upon them, warm and loving, 
Tenderest kisses of your mouth. 

190 Phoebe Cary : An April Welcome, 



AB G UMENT - ABISTO CBA C Y. 2 1 

ARGUMENT. 
O most lame and impotent conclusion. 

191 Shaks.: Othello Act ii. Sc. 1. 

He that complies against his will, 
Is of his own opinion still. 

192 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 547. 

He'd undertake to prove, by force 
Of argument, a man's no horse. 
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, 
And that a lord may be an owl, 
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, 
And rooks committee-men or trustees. 

193 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 71. 

Eeproachful speech from either side 
The want of argument supplied ; 
They rail'cl, revil'd — as often ends 
The contests of disputing friends. 

19-4 Gay : Fables. Actii. Line 16. 

Be calm in arguing : for fierceness makes 
| Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. 

195 Herbert : Temple. Church Torch. St. 52. 

Like doctors thus, when much dispute has past, 
We And our teuets just the same at last. 

196 Tope : Jlor. Essays. Epis. iii. Line 15. 

"Who shall decide when doctors disagree, 
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me. 

197 Tope : Mor. Essays. Epis. iii. Line 1. 

Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, 
And thought of convincing while they thought of dining. 

198 Goldsmith: Betaliation. Line 35. 

In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, 
For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still; 
While words of learned length and thundering sound 
Amaz'd the gazing rustics raug'd around ; 
And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew 
That one small head could carry all he knew. 

199 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 211. 

ARISTOCRACY. 

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; 
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. 

200 Tope : Mor. Essays. Epis. i. Line 135 



2 2 ABM Y—AB TlS T. 

ARMY — sec Soldiers, War, Warrior. 

A braver choice of dauntless spirits, 
Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er, 
Did never float upon the swelling tide. 

201 Shaks.: King John. Act ii. Sc. 1 

We are but warriors for the working-day : 

Our gayness, and our gilt, are all be-smirch'd 
With rainy marching in the painful field. 
There's not a piece of feather in our host. 

202 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Remember whom you are to cope withal ; — 
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and run-away s, 
A scum of Bretagues, and base lackey peasants. 
Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth 
To desperate ventures and assur'd destruction. 

203 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act v. Sc. 3. 

ART — ARTIST. 
In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, 
To make some good, but others to exceed. 

204 Shaks. : Pericles. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight 

Adonis painted by a running brook ; 

And Cytherea all in sedges hid; 

Which seem to move and wanton with her breath, 

Even as the waving sedges play with wind. 

205 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Induction. Sc. 2. 

Painting is welcome ! 
The painting is almost the natural man ; 
Eor since dishonor traffics with man's nature, 
He is but outside ; these pencil'd figures are 
Even such as they give out. 

206 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 1. 

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; 
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; 
Still born to improve us in every part, 
His pencil our faces — his manners our heart. 

207 Goldsmith: Betaliation. Line 139 

A flattering painter who made it his care, 

To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. 

208 Goldsmith : Betaliation. Line 63. 

Around the mighty master came 
The marvels Avhich his pencil wrought, 
Those miracles of power whose fame 
Is wide as human thought. 

209 Whittier : Baphael. St. 8. 



AUTIST — AS TB OXOMEES. 23 

Seraphs share Avith thee 
Knowledge : But art, O man, is thiue alone ! 

210 Schiller: Artists. St. 2. 

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 
Aud groined the aisles of Christian Rome, 
Wrought in a sad since rity ; 
Himself from God he could not free ; 
He builded better than he knew ; — 
The conscious stone to beauty grew. 

211 Emerson: The Problem. Liue 19. 

Art is the child of Nature; yes, 
Her darling child, in whom we trace 
The features of the mother's face, 
Her aspect and her attitude. 

212 Longfellow: Keramos. 

He is the greatest artist, then, 

Whether of pencil or of pen, 

Who follows Xature. Never man, 

As artist or as artisan, 

Pursuing his own fantasies, 

Can touch the human heart, or please, 

Or satisfy our nobler needs. 

213 Longfellow : Keramos. 

ASPIRATION. 
'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait; 
He rises on the toe ; that spirit of his 
In aspiration lifts him from the earth. 

211 Shaks.: Trail, and Cress. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

ASSURANCE. 
I'll make assurance double sure, 
And take a bond of fate. 

215 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

ASTONISHMENT— see Amazement, Surprise, Fear. 
It is the part of men to fear and tremble, 
"When the most mighty gods, by tokens, send 
Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. 

216 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Hear it not, ye stars ! 

And thou, pale moon! turn paler at the sound. 

217 Young: Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 215. 

ASTRONOMERS. 
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, 
That give a name to every fixed star, 
Have no more profit of their shining nights. 
Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. 

218 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1 



24 AS Til OXOMEBS—A UG US T. 

Devotion ! daughter of astronomy ! 
An uiulevout astronomer is mad. 

219 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 772. 

ATHEISM. 

By night an atheist half believes a God. 
'220 Young: Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 176. 

Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, 
(Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, 
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, 
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, 
And hooting at the glorious sun in heaven, 
Cries out, '• Where is it? " 

221 Coleridge : Fears in Solitude. Line 81. 

" There is no God," the foolish saith — 

But none, " There is no sorrow : " 

And Nature oft the cry of Faith 

In bitter need will borrow. 

Eyes which the preacher could not school, 

By wayside graves are raised ; 

Aud lips say, ' ; God be pitiful," 

That ne'er said " God be praised." 

222 Jlrs. Browning: Cry of the Human. 

ATHENS. 
Ancient of days! august Athena ! where, 
Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? 
Gone — glimmering through the dre*im of things that were, 
First in the race that led to glory's goal, 
Thev won, and pass'd away. 

223 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 2. 

AUDIT. 
He took my father grossly, full of bread, 
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May ; 
And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven? 

221 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

I can make my audit up, that all 
From me do back receive the flour of all, 
And leave me but the bran. 

225 Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 1 

AUGUST. 
Dust on thy mantle ! dust, 
Bright Summer ! on thy livery of green. 
A tarnish as of rust, 
Dims thy late-brilliant sheen ; 

And thy young glories, — leaf, and bud, and flower, — 
Change cometh over them with every hour. 

226 William D. Gallagher: August 



AUGUST— AUTHOBITY. 25 

And lo ! the sun is coming. Red as rust 

Between the latticed blind his presence burns, 

A ruby ladder running up the wall ; 

And all the dust, printed with pigeons' feet, 

Is reddened, and the crows that stalk anear 

Begin to trail for heat their glossy wings, 

And the red flowers give back at once the dew, 

For night is gone, and day is born so fast, 

And is so strong, that, huddled as in flight, 

The fleeting darkness paleth to a shade, 

And while she calls to sleep and dreams " Come on," 

Suddenly waked, the sleepers rub their eyes, 

Which having opened, lo ! she is no more. 

227 Jean Ingelow : Afternoon at a Parsonage, 
Bejoice ! ye fields, rejoice ! and wave with gold, 

When August round her precious gifts is flinging ; 
Lo ! the crushed wain is slowly homeward rolled : 
The sunburnt reapers jocund lays are singing. 

228 Buskin~: The 3fonths« 
AURORA BOREALIS. 

The amber midnight smiles in dreams of dawn. 

229 Bayard Taylor : From the North* 
Night's son was driving 

His golden-haired horses up ; 
Over the eastern firths 
High flashed their manes. 

230 Charles Kingsley : The Longbeards' Saga. 
AUTHORITY. 

Man, proud man, 
Drest in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, 
His glassy essence — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven 
As make the angels weep ! 

231 Shaks. : 31. for 31. Act ii. Sc. 2 
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? 

And the creature run from the cur? 

There thou might' st behold the great image of authority: 

A dog's obeyed in office. 

232 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6. 
Authority intoxicates, 

And makes mere sots of magistrates ; 
The fumes of it invade the brain, 
And make men giddy, proud and vain : 
By this the fool commands the wise, 
The noble with the base complies, 
The sot assumes the rule of wit, 
And cowards make the brave submit. 

233 Butler : 31isc. Thoughts. Line 283. 



26 AUTHOBS. 

AUTHORS — see Books, Critics, Poems, Reading. 
How many great ones may remember'd be, 
Which in their days most famously did nourish, 
Of whom no word we hear, nor sign uow see, 
But as things Avip'd out with a spouge do perish. 

234 Spenser: Ruins of Time. St. 52. 

Look, then, into thine heart, and write ! 

235 Longfellow : Voices of the Night. Prelude, 
No author ever spared a brother ; 

Wits are gamecocks to one another. 

236 Gay : Fables. Elephant and Bookseller. 

In every work regard the writer's end, 

Since none can compass more than they intend. 

237 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 55 
An author ! 'tis a venerable name ! 

How few deserve it, and what numbers claim ! 
Unbless'd with sense above their peers refined, 
Who shall stand up, dictators to mankind? 
Nay, who dare shine, if not in virtue's cause, 
That sole proprietor of just applause? 

238 Young : Epis. to Pope. Bk. ii. Line 15. 

Some write, confin'd by physic; some, by debt; 
Some, for 'tis Sunday; some, because 'tis wet; 
Another writes because his father writ, 
And proves himself a bastard by his wit. 

239 Young : Epis. to Pope. Bk. i. Line 75 

Great is the dignity of authorship. 

240 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Authorship. 

Rare is the worthiness of authorship. 

241 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Authorship. 

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, 
And pause awhile from letters to be wise, 
There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, 
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail; 
See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, 
To buried merit raise the tardy bust. 

242 Dr. Johnson: Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 157 

I We that live to please, must please to live. 

243 Dr. Johnson: Pro. on Opening Drury Lane Tlieatre. 

Some write a narrative of wars and feats, 

Of heroes little known, and call the rant 

A history. Describe the man, of whom 

His own coevals took but little note, 

And paint his person, character and views, 

As they had known him from his mother's womb. 

244 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 139 



AUTHOBS. 27. 

None but an author knows an author's cares, 
Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears. 

245 Cowper: Prog, of Error. Line 516. 

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, 
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 

246 Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham : Essay on Poetry 

Sometimes an author, fond of his own thought, 
Pursues its object till 'tis overwrought: 
If he describes a house, he shows the face, 
And after, walks you round from place to place ; 
Here is a vista, there the doors unfold, 
Balconies here are balustred with gold ; 
Then counts the rounds and ovals in the halls, 
The festoons, friezes, and the astragals : 
Tired with his tedious pomp, away I run, 
And skip o'er twenty pages to be gone. 

247 Dryden : Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 49. 

I never dare to write 
As f unny as I can. 

248 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Height of Bidiculous. St. 8. 

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print ; 
A book's a book, although there's nothing in't. 

249 Byron : English Bards. Line 51. 

One hates an author that's all author, fellows 

In foolscap uniform turn'd up with ink ; 

So very anxious, cleA~er, fine and jealous, 

One don't know what to say to them, or think, 

Unless to puff them with a pair of bellows ; 

Of coxcombry's worst coxcombs, e'en the pink 

Are preferable to these shreds of paper, 

These unquench'd snuffmgs of the midnight taper. 

250 Byron: Beppo. St. 75. 

But every fool describes, iu these bright days, 
His wondrous journey to some foreign court, 
And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise, — 
Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport. 

251 Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 52 

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, 
But 'tis a nobler privilege to think ; 
And oft, from books apart, the thirsting mind 
May make the nectar which it cannot find. 
'Tis well to borrow from the good and great ; 
'Tis wise to learn ; 'tis god-like to create ! 

252 J. G. Saxe : The Library 



28 AUTUMN. 

AUTUMN — see October, November. 

Thrice happy time. 
Best portion of the various year, in which 
Nature rejoiceth, smiling on her works. 
Lovely, to full perfection wrought! 

253 John Phillips: Cider. 2 

Season of mists and mellow f ruitf ulness ! 
Close bosom friend of the maturing sun; 
Conspiring with him how to load and bless 
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; 
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage tree-. 
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core. 

25-1 Keats : T<> Autumn. 

Divinest autumn ! who may paint thee best. 
Forever changeful o*er the changeful globe? 
"Who guess thy certain crown, thy favorite crest, 
The fashion of thy many-colored robe? 
Sometimes we see thee stretched upon the ground, 
In fading woods where acorns patter fast, 
Dropping to feed thy tusky boars around, 
Crunching among the leaves the ripened mast ; 
Sometimes at work where ancient granary-floors 
Are open wide, a thresher stout and hale, 
Whitened with chaff up-wafted from thy flail, 
"While south winds sweep along the dusty floors; 
And sometimes fast asleep at noontide hours, 
Pillowed on sheaves, and shaded from the heat. 
With Plenty at thy feet, 
Braiding a coronet of oaten straw and flowers. 

255 B. II. Stoddard : Autumn. 
Pale in her fading bowers the summer stands, 

Like a new Niobe with clasped hands, 
Silent above the flowers, her children lost, 
Slain by the arrows of the early frost. 
The clouded Heaven above is pale and gray, 
The misty Earth below is wan and drear. 
The baying winds chase all the leaves away. 
As cruel hounds pursue the trembling deer : 
It is a solemn time, the Sunset of the Year. 

256 B. H. Stoddard: Ode. 

The Wind moans in the Wood. 

The Leaf drops from the Tree ; 

The cold Rain falls on the graves of the Good. 

The cold Mist comes up from the Sea. 

257 Byron Force ythe Willson : Autumn Song. 

Autumn wins you best by this its mute 
Appeal to sympathy for its decay. 

258 Bobert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. \ 



AUTUMN. 29 

.Earth is all in splendor clrest ; 
Queenly fair, she sits at rest, 
While the deep, delicious day 
Dreams its happy life away. 

259 Margaret E. Sangster: An Autumn Day. St. 4 

Winds are swelling 
Round our dwelling, 
All day telling 
Us their woe ; 
And at vesper 
Frosts grow crisper, 
As they whisper 
Of the snow. 

260 Thos. Buchanan Bead : Autumn's Sighing. 

Autumn's sighing, 
Moaning, dying; 
Clouds are flying 
On like steeds ; 
While their shadows 
O'er the meadows 
Walk like widows 
Deck'd in weeds. 

261 Thos. Buchanan Bead: Autumn's Sighing. 

The lands are lit 
With all the autumn blaze of Golden Rod ; 
And everywhere the Purple Asters nod 
And bend and wave and flit. 

262 Helen Hunt : Asters and Golden Bod. 

That beautiful season 
. . . the Summer of All-Saints ! 
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light ; and 

the landscape 
Lay as if new-created in all the freshness of childhood. 
Peace seemed to reign upon earth, and the restless heart of 

the ocean 
Was for a moment consoled. All sounds were in harmony 

blended. 
. . . And the great sun 
Looked with the eye of love through the golden vapors 

around him; 
While arrayed in its robes of russet and scarlet and yellow, 
Bright with the sheen of the dew, each glittering tree of the 

forest 
Flashed like the plane-tree the Persian adorned with mantles 

and jewels. 

263 Longfellow : Evangeline. Part i. ii. Line 11. 



30 AUTUMN. 

Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips 

The days, as through the sunset gates they crowd. 

And Summer from her golden collar slips 

And strays through stubble-fields, and moans aloud, 

Save when by fits the warmer air deceives, 

And, stealing hopeful to some sheltered bower, 

She lies on pillows of the yellow leaves. 

And tries the old tunes over for an hour. 

264 Alice Cary : Autumru 

This sunlight shames November where he grieves 
In dead reel leaves, and will not let him shun 
The day, though bough with bough be overrun. 
But with a blessing every glade receives 
High salutation. 

265 Dante Gabriel Bossetti: Autumn Idleness. 

Summer is gone on swallows' wings, 
And earth has buried all her flowers : 
No more the lark, the linnet sings, 
But Silence sits in faded bowers. 
There is a shadow on the plain 
Of Winter ere he comes again. 

266 Hood : Departure of Summer. 

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn 
Stand shadowless like silence, listening 
To silence, for no lonely bird would sing 
Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, 
Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn. 

267 Hood: Autumn. 

How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky 
The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled ! 
Hues of all flow'rs that in their ashes lie, 
Trophied in that fair light whereon they fed. 
Tulip, and hyacinth, and sweet rose red, — 
Like exhalations from the leafy mould, 
Look here how honor glorifies the dead, 
And warms their scutcheons with a glance of gold. 

268 Hood: Written in a vol. of Shakespeare. 

The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, 
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown 
and sear. 

269 William Cullen Bryant : Death of the Flowers. 

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, 
Yet our full-leaved willows are in their freshest green. 
Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing 
With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen. 

270 William Cullen Bryant : Third of November 



AUTUMN— AWKWARDNESS. 31 

Fruit-laden Autumn follows. 

271 William Cullen Bryant : Order of Nature. 
Autumn's earliest frost had given 

To the woods below 

Hues of beauty, such as heaven 

Lendeth to its bow ; 

And the soft breeze from the west 

Scarcely broke their dreamy rest. 

272 ' Whittier : The Fountain. St. 9. 

AVARICE — see Covetousness. 
The rule, get money, still get money, boy, 
No matter by what means. 

273 Ben Jonson : Every Man in his H. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
And hence one master passion in the breast, 

Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 

274 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 131. 
Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, 

Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. 

275 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 169. 
Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffus'd, 

As poison heals, in just proportion us'd ; 
In heaps, like ambergris, a stink it lies, 
But well dispers'cl, is incense to the skies. 

276 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 233. 
'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ 

To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy ; 
Is it less strange the prodigal should waste 
His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste? 

277 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iv. Line 1. 
The lust of gold succeeds the rags of conquest : 

The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless ! 
The last corruption of degenerate man. 

278 Dr. Johnson: Irene. Act i. Sc. 1. 
A thirst for gold, 

The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm 
The meanest hearts. 

279 Byron: Vision of J. St. 43. 
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, 

I think I must take up with avarice. 

280 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 216= 
AWKWARDNESS. 

Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill 
Of moving gracefully, or standing still, 
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother, 
Desirous seems to run away from t'other. 

281 Churchill : Rosciad. Line 438. 



32 A WKWABDNES8 — BABBEBBIE8. 

What's a fine person, or a beauteous face, 
Unless deportment gives them decent grace? 
Bless'd with all other requisites to please, 
Some want the striking elegance of ease; 
The curious eye their awkward movement tires; 
They seem like puppets led about by wires. 

282 Churchill: Bosciad. Line 741 



B. 

BALL — .see Dancing-. 

The music, and the banquet, and the wine — 
The garlands, the rose-odors, and the flowers — 
The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments — 
The white arms and the raven hair — the braids 
And bracelets — swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, 
An India itself, yet dazzling not 
The eye like what it circled ; the thin robes, 
Floating like light clouds 'twixt our gaze and heaven. 

283 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act iv. Sc. 1, 

I saw her at a county ball ; 

There when the sound of flute and fiddle 

Gave signal sweet in that old hall. 

Of hands across and clown the middle. 

Hers was the subtlest spell by far 

Of all that sets young hearts romancing ; 

She was our queen, our rose, our star; 

And then she danced — oh, heaven, her dancing! 

284 Praed : Belle of the Ball-Boom. St. 2. 

banishment: 

Banished ? 
O friar, the damned use that word in hell; 
Howlings attend it : How hast thou the heart, 
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, 
A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd, 
To mangle me with that word — banished? 

285 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

BARBERRIES. 

In scarlet clusters o'er the gray stone-wall 
The barberries lean in thin autumnal air : 
Just when the fields and garden-plots are bare, 
And ere the green leaf takes the tint of fall, 
They come to make the eye a festival ! 
Along the road, for miles, their torches flare. 

286 T. B. Aldrich : Barberries. Sonnet vji 



BAR GAIN— BA TTLE. 33 

BARGAIN — see Commerce, Trade. 
I'll give thrice so much land 
To any well-deserving friend ; 
But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, 
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 

287 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
BASHFULNBSS. 

Of all our parts, the eyes express 
The sweetest kind of bashfulness. 

288 Herrick: Aph. Bashfulness. 
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; 

Who fears to ask, cloth teach to be deny'd. 

289 Herrick : Aph. No Bashfulness in Begging. 
I pity bashful men, who feel the pain 

Of fancied scorn, and undeserv'd disdain, 
And bear the marks upon a blushing face, 
Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace. 

290 Coicper: Conversation. Line 317. 
So bright the tear in beauty's eye, 

Love half regrets to kiss it dry ; 
So sweet the blush of bashfulness, 
E'en pity scarce can wish it lessi 

291 Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 8. 

BATTLE — see Soldiers, War. 

This day hath made 
Much work for tears in many an English mother, 
Whose sons lie scatter'cl on the bleecliDg ground. 
Many a widow's husband grovelling lies, 
Coldly embracing the cliscolor'd earth. 

292 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
The cannons have their bowels full of wrath; 

And ready mounted are they, to spit forth 
Their iron indignation. 

293 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
If we are marked to die, we are enow 

To do our country loss ; and if to live, 
The fewer men the greater share of honor. 

294 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc 3. 
Each at the head 

Levell'd his deadly aim ; their fatal hands 
No second stroke intend. 

295 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 711, 
Those that fly may fight again. 

Which he can never do that's slain. 1 

296 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 213. 

iSee Xotes tracing the pedigree of this distich and its parallels, in Hudi 
bras, Ed. Bohn, pp. 106 and 403. 



34 BATTLE. 

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war; 
The labored battle sweat, and conquest bled. 

297 Nathaniel Lee : Alex, the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2 

Behold in awful march and dread array 

The long-expected squadrons shape their way ! 

Death, in approaching, terrible, imparts 

An anxious horror to the bravest hearts ; 

Yet do their beating breasts demand the strife, 

And thirst of glory quells the love of life. 

298 Addison :■ Campaign. Line 259. 
A thousand glorious actions, that might claim 
Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, 

Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, 
And troops of heroes undistinguish'd die. 

299 Addison : Campaign. Line 304. 

'Twas blow for blow, disputing inch by inch, 
For one would not retreat, nor t' other flinch. 

300 Byron : Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 77. 

Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, 
That host, with their banners, at sunset were seen ; 
Like the leaves of the forest, when Autumn hath blown, 
That host, on the morrow, lay wither'd and strown ! 

301 Byron : Destruction of Sennacherib. 
But when all is past, it is humbling to tread 

O'er the weltering field of the tombless dead, 
And see worms of the earth and fowls of the air, 
And beasts of the forest, all gathering there ; 
All regarding man as their prey, 
All rejoicing in his decay. 

302 Byron : Siege of Cor. St. 17. 
Hark to the trump, and the drum, 

And the mournful sound of the barbarous horn, 
And the flap of the banners, that flit as they're borne, 
And the neigh of the steed, and the multitude's hum, 
And the clash, and the shout " thev come, they come ! " 

303 Byron : Siege of Cor. St. 22 
Hand to hand, and foot to foot : 

Nothing there, save death, was mute; 
Stroke, and thrust, and flash, and cry 
For quarter, or for victory 
Mingle there with the volleying thunder. 

304 Byron : Siege of Cor. St. 24. 
No dread of death — if with us die our foes — 

Save that it seems even duller than repose : 
Come when it will — we snatch the life of life — 
When lost— what recks it — by disease or strife. 

305 Byron : Corsair. Canto i. St. 1 



f LIBRARY 

BA TTLE — BE A UTY. 




Then more fierce 
The conflict grew; the din of arms, the yell 
Of savage rage, the shriek of agony, 
The groan of death, commingled in one sound 
Of undistinguish'd horrors. 

306 Southey : Madoc. Pt. ii. The Battle. 

BEARD — see Hair. 
Alas, poor chin ! many a wart is richer. 

307 Shales. : Troilus and Cress. Act i. Sc. 2. 
His tawny beard was th' equal grace 

Both of his wisdom and his face ; 
In cut and die so like a tile, 
A sudden view it would beguile ; 
The upper part thereof was whey ; 
The nether, orange mix'd with grey. 

308 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 241. 

BEAUTY — see Loveliness, Merit, Ornament. 
Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! 
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, 
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. 

309 Shaks. : Sonnet liv. 
My beauty, though but mean, 

Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; 
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, 
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. 

310 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
For where is any author in the world 

Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 

311 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Her sunny locks 
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. 

312 Shaks. : M. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. 

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple ; 
If the ill spirit have so fair a house, 
Good things will strive to dwell with it. 

313 Shaks. : Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. 
And as the bright sun glorifies the sky, 

So is her face illumin'd with her eye. 

314 Shaks. : Venus and A. 485. 
'Tis beanty truly blent, whose red and white 

Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on : 
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, 
If yon will lead these graces to the grave, 
And leave the world no copy. 

315 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 5. 






36 BEAUTY. 

She looks as clear 
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. 
310 Shahs.: Tarn, of the S. Act ii. Sc. I 

She's beautiful ; and therefore to be wooed : 
She is a woman ; therefore to be won. 

317 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 3. 

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! 
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear : 
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! 

318 Shaks.: Bom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 5, 

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars 
As daylight cloth a lamp ; her eye in heaven, 
Would through the airy region stream so bright, 
That birds would sing, aud think it were not night. 

319 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

This is the prettiest low-born lass that ever 
Ran on the green sward; nothing she does, or seems, 
But smacks of something greater than herself ; 
Too noble for this place. 

320 Shaks.: Win. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety : other women cloy 
The appetites they feed ; but she makes hungry, 
Where most she satisfies. 

321 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Beauty is but a vain aud doubtful good ; 
A shining gloss that vacleth suddenly ; 
A flower that dies, when first it 'gins to bud ; 
A brittle glass that's broken presently ; 
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, 
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour. 

322 Shaks. : Bass. Bilgrim. St. 13. 

Beauty itself cloth of itself persuade 
The eyes of men without an orator. 

323 Shaks. : B. of Lucrece. St. 5. 

Sits here like Beauty's child, whom nature gat 
For men to see, and seeing wonder at. 

324 Shaks. : Bericles. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground; 
As broken glass no cement can redress ; — 
So beauty, blemish'd once, 's forever lost, 
In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost. 

325 Shaks. : Bass. Bilgrim. St. 13. 



BE A TJTY. 



Give mo a look, give me a face, 
That makes simplicity a grace; 
Bobes loosely flowing, hair as free ! — 
Such sweet neglect more taketh me 
Than all the adulteries of art, 
That strike mine eyes, but not my heart. 
32G Ben Jonson : Silent Woman. Act i. 



Sc. 1. 



Eyes that could see her on this summer-day 
Might And it hard to turn another way. 
She had a pensive beaut} 7 ; yet not sad ; 
Bather, like minor cadences that glad 
The hearts of little birds amid spring boughs. 

327 George Eliot: How Lisa Loved the King. 
A thing of beauty is a joy forever : 

Its loveliness increases ; it will never 

Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep 

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep 

Eull of sweet dreams, aud health, and quiet breathing. 

328 Keats: Endymion. Bk. i. Line 1. 
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown 

In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, 
Where most may wonder at the workmanship. 
It is for homely features to keep home ; 
They had their name thence ; coarse complexions, 
And cheeks of sorry grain, will serve to ply 
The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. 
What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, 
Love-darting eyes, and tresses like the morn? — 
There was another meaning in those gifts. 

329 Milton: Comus. Line 745. 

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, 
But must be current, and the good thereof 
Consists in mutual and partaken bliss, 
Unsavory in th' enjoyment of itself : 
If you let slip time, like a neglected rose, 
It withers on the stock with languished head. 

330 Milton: Comus. Line 739. 
Beauty, like the fair Hesperian tree 

Laden with blooming gold had need the guard 
Of dragon-watch with unenchauted eye, 
To save her blossoms and defend her fruit. 

331 Milton: Comus. Line 393. 
Beauty stands 

In the admiration only of weak minds 

Led captive ; cease to admire, and all her plumes 

Eall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, 

At every sudden slighting quite abash'd. 

332 ' Milton: Par. Beg ained. Bk. ii. Line 220. 



38 BEAUTY. 

Beauty with a bloodless conquest finds 
A welcome sovereignty in rudest minds. 

333 Waller: Upon her Majesty's repairing to St. Paul 

Loveliest of lovely things are they, 
On earth that soonest pass away. 
The rose that lives its little hour 
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. 

334 Wm. Cullen Bryant : Scene on the Banks of Hudson. 

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, 
The power of beauty I remember yet. 

335 Dryden : Gym. and Iph. Line 1. 

All things of beauty are not theirs alone 
Who hold the fee ; but unto him no less 
Who can enjoy, than unto them who own, 
Are sweetest uses given to possess. 
For Heaven is bountiful ; and suffers none 
To make monopoly of aught that's fair. 

336 J. 6r. Saxe : The Beautiful 

Is she not more than painting can express, 
Or youthful poets fancy when they love? 

337 Bowe : Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

'Tis not a set of features, or complexion, 
The tincture of a skin that I admire : 
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, 
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. 

338 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 4. 

In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts, 
Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts ; 
'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, 
But the joint force, and full result of all. 

339 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 43 

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. 

340 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 53. 
Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, 

Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : 
If to her share some female errors fall, 
LOok on her face, and you'll forget them all. 

341 Pope : B. of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 15. 

Beauty's akin to Death. 

342 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Millennial Earth. 

The beautiful are never desolate; 

But some one alway loves them — God or man. 

If man abandons, God himself takes them. 

343 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Wood and Water 



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39 



What's female beauty, but an air divine, 

Through which the mind's all-gentle graces shine? 

They, like the sun, irradiate all between ; 

The body charms, because the soul is seen. 

Hence men are often captives of a face, 

They know not why, of no peculiar grace : 

Some forms, though bright, no mortal man can bear; 

Some none resist, though not exceeding fair. 

344 Young : Love of Fame. Satire vi. Line 141. 
What is this thought or thing 

Which I call beauty? is it thought or thing? 

Is it a thought accepted for a thing? 

Or both? or neither — a pretext? — a word? 

Its meaning nutters in me like a flame 

Under my own breath : my perceptions reel, 

For evermore around it, and fall off, 

As if it too were holy. 

345 Mrs. Browning : Drama of Ex. Extrem. of Sword-Glare. 
The essence of all beauty, I call love. 

The attribute, the evidence, and end, 
The consummation to the inward sense, 
Of beauty apprehended from without, 
I still call love. 

346 Mrs. Browning: Drama of Ex. Extrem. of Sword-Glare. 

Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown ; 
Both are most valued where they best are knoAvn. 

347 Lyttdton: Soliloquy of a Beauty. Line 2, 
If eyes were made for seeing, 

Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. 

348 Emerson: The Bh.od.ora. 
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, 

Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. 

349 Byron : Beppo. St. 45. 
Who can curiously behold 

The smoothness and the sheen of beauty's cheek. 
Nor feel the heart can never all grow old? 

350 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 11. 

Who hath not proved how feebly words essay 
To fix one spark of beauty's heavenly raj'? 
Who doth not feel, until his failing sight 
Faints into dimness with its own delight, 
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess 
The might — the majesty of loveliness? 

351 " Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 6. 
Her overpowering presence made you feel 

It would not be idolatry to kneel. 

352 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St 74 



40 BEAUTY. 

She was a form of life and light, 
That, seen, became a part of sight ; 
And rose, where'er I turned mine eye, 
The morning-star of memory. 

353 Byron: Giaour. Line 1135 

An eye's an eye, and whether black or blue 
Is no great matter, so 'tis in request, 
'Tis nonsense to dispute about a hue — 
The kindest may be taken as a test. 
The fair sex should be always fair; and no man, 
i Till thirty, should perceive there's a plain woman. 

354 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiii. St. 8, 

Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow 
Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; 
Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow, 
Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth, 
Mounting at times to a transparent glow, 
As if her veins ran lightning. 

355 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto i. St 61. 

She walks in beauty, like the night 
Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; 
And all that's best of dark and bright 
jUeet in her aspect and her eyes ; 
Thus mellow'd to that tender light 
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. 

356 Byron: She Walks in Beauty 

There was a soft and pensive grace, 
A cast of thought upon her face, 
That suited well the forehead high, 
The eyelash dark, and downcast eye : 
The mild expression spoke a mind 
In duty firm, composed, resigned. 

357 Scott: Bokeby. Canto iv. St. 5. 

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes 
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly 
guise. 

358 31rs. Hemans : Our Daily Paths. 

Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
Oh, what were man ? — a world without a sun ! 

359 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 23. 

The Universe is girdled with a chain, 

And hung below the Throne 

Where Thou dost sit, the Universe to bless, 

Thou sovereign Smile of God, Eternal Loveliness. 

360 B. H. Stoddard: Hymn to the Beautiful 



BEA UTY— BEES. 41 

What is beauty? Alas ! 'tis a jewel, a glass, 

A bubble, a plaything, a rose, 

"lis the snow, clew, or air ; 'tis so many things rare 

That 'tis nothing, one well may suppose, 

Tis a jewel, Love's token ; glass easily broken, 

A bubble that vanisheth soon ; 

A plaything that boys cast aside when it cloys, 

A rose quickly faded and strewn. 

361 Bohn : Ms. 
There is a spirit in the kindling glance 

Of pure and lofty beauty, which cloth quell 
Each darker passion ; and as heroes fell 
Before the terror of Minerva's lance 
So beauty, arm'd with virtue bows the soul 
With a commanding but a sweet control, 
Making the heart all holiness and love, 
And lifting it to worlds that shiue above. 

362 Bohn: Ms. 
There is beauty in the rolling clouds, and placid shingle 

beach, 
In feathery snows, and whistling winds, and dun electric 

skies : 
There is beauty in the rounded woods, dank with heavy 

foliage, 
In laughing fields, and cliuted hills, the valley and its lake: 
There is beauty in the gullies, beauty on the cliffs, beauty in 

sun and shade, 
In rocks and rivers, seas and plains, — the earth is drowned 

in beauty. 

363 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Beauty. 
BED. 

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, 
And born in bed, in bed we die ; 
The near approach a bed may show 
Of human bliss and human woe. 

364 Isaac Be Benserade : Trans, by Dr. Johnson, 
Night is the time for rest ; — 

How sweet, when labors close, 

To gather round an aching breast 

The curtain of repose, 

Stretch the tir'd limbs and lay the head 

Down to our own delightful bed. 

365 James Montgomery : Night 
BEES. 

So work the honey-bees; 
Creatures, that by a rule in nature, teach 
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 

366 Shaks. ; Henry V. Act i. Sc. 2. 



42 BEES— BELLS. 

The careful insect 'midst his works I view, 
Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew, 
With golden treasures load his little thighs, 
And steer his distant jouruey through the skies; 
Some against hostile drones the hive defend, 
Others with sweets the waxen cells distend, 
Each in the toil his destin'd office bears, 
And in the little bulk a mighty soul appears. 

307 Gay : Bural Sports. Canto i. Line 8a 

BEGGARS — see Bashfulness. 
Well whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, 
And say, — there is no sin, but to be rich; 
And being rich, my virtue then shall be, 
To say, — there is no vice but beggary. 

3G8 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc. 2, 

Beggars, mounted, run their horse to death. 

369 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 4. 
His house was known to all the vagrant train, 

He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain ; 
The long remembered beggar was his guest, 
Whose beard descending swept his aged breast. 

370 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 149. 
A beggar through the world am I, — 

From place to place I wander by. 
Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, 
For Christ's sweet sake and charity. 

371 James Bussell Lowell : The Beggar. 

BELLS. 
Your voices break and falter in the darkness, — 
Break, falter, and are still. 

372 Bret Harte : The Angelus. Last St. 
How soft the music of those village bells, 

Falling at intervals upon the ear 
In cadence sweet ; now dying all away, 
Now pealing loud again and louder still, 
Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on ; 
With easy force it opens all the Cells 
Where memory slept. 

373 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 6 
There's a music aloft in the air, 

As if Cherubs were humming a song, 

Now it's high, now it's low, here and there, 

There's a harmony floating, floating along ! 

While the steeples are loud in their joy, 

To the tune of the bells ring-a-ding, 

Let us chime in a peal, one-and-all. 

For we all should be able to sing Hullabaloo. 

374 Hood: Song for the Million. 



BULLS. 43 & 

?" 

Dear bells i how sweet tike sound of village bells ? ; 

When ou the undulating ear they swim I & 

JSTarr loud as welcomes 1 faint now as farewells ! |U 

And trembling all about the breezy dells, £ 

As fluttered by the wings of Cherubim. L 

375 Hood: Ode to Rae Wilson, Bsq. Line 159 ? f 
Those evening bells ! those evening bells i |ii 
How many a tale their music tells :'. 
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time, b 
When last I heard their sootMng chime ! \, 

376 Moore : Those Livening Belli ■.': 

King out old shapes of foul disease, 1 

Ring out the narrowing lust' of gold ; [" 

Ring out the thousand, wars of old, i 

Ring in the thousand years of peace. 

Ring in the valiant man and free, - ; 

The" larger heart, the kindlier hand? 
Ring out the darkness of the land, 
Ring in the Christ that is to be. 

377 Tennyson : In Memo?*iam. Pt. cv. jl 

It is the convent bell ; it rings for vespers. j 

iet us go in j we both will pray for peace. : 

378 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. vii j' 

The Sabbath bell, 
That over wood : , and wild, and mountain-dell ) 

Wanders so far,, chasing all thoughts unholy 
"With sounds, most musical, most melancholy. 

379 8amuel Rogers : LCuman Life 
I heard 

The bells of the convent ringing 
IToon from their noisy towers. 

380 Longfellow : Gliristus. Golden Legend. Pt. iL 

He heard the convent bell 
Suddenly in the silence ringing 
Por the service of noonday. 

381 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt ii 

The bells themselves are the best of preachers ; 

Their "brazen lips are learned teachers, 

Prom their pulpits of stone in the upper air, 

Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, 

Shriller than trumpets under the law, 

rTow a sermon and now a player. 

The clangorous hammer is the tongue^ 

This way, that way, beaten and swung; 

That from mouth of brass, as from mouth of gold • -. 

May be taught the Testaments, rTew and Old. 

382 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend.. '.Ft. ill 



U BELLS— BIBLE. 

Cburcb-belis at .best but ring.ns to the door; 
But go not in. to mass ; my bell dotb more j 
It come'tli into court and pleads the cause 
Of creatures dumb and unknown to tbe laws, 
And tbis shall make in eyery- Cbristian .clime 
Tbe Bell of Atri famous for all time. 

383 Longfellow : T. of a Wayside Inn. Bell ofAtrt 

BBNjBLDICTIOK*— see OombSments. 

How tbe fair goddess, fortune, 
Pall deep in loye "witb tbee; . . . 
Prosperity be tby page ! 

384 Shales. : Goriolamts. Act i. Sc. & 

The beayens rain odors on .yon I 

385 Bhdks.: Xw. Might. Act iii. Sc. L 

Tbe grace of beayen, | 

Before, behind Hlqq, and on eyery band, 
Enwbeel tbee round I 

386 * Blialcs. : 'OtheUo. Act il Sc 1. 

KEHETFOIiElNrpS — see Bounty. 
How far tbat little candle throws bis beams ! 
So sbines a good deed in a naughty world. 

387 8ha7cs.: M. of Venice. Acty. Sc. t 

Is iibere a yariance? enter but bis door, 
• Balk'd are tbe courts, and contest Is.no- more. 
Despairing quacks with curses ned £ae place, 
And yile attorneys, now -an useless race. 

388 Bqpe : Mbr. Bssays. Bpis. iiL X&ne 272. 

Erora tbe prayer of want and plaint of woe, ' 

O neyer, neyer turn away thine ear I 

forlorn in. ibis bleak wilderness below, 

Ab ! wbat were man sbonld beayen refuse to bear I 

389 -■ Beattie: Mnsirel. Bk. i. St. 29. 

BKTTHTG— see "Wag-era 

Iwe beard old cunning stagers 
Say, fools for arguments use wagers. 

390 Butler :- BCudibras. Pt. ii. Canto L line 297. 

Most men, till by losing rendered sager, 
"Will back their own opinions by a wager. 
39X Byron : Bepp'o. St. 27. 

A glory gilds tbe sacred page, 
l^ajestiolike -the sun; ' 
It giyes a.blgbt to eyery age ; 
It giyes, but borrows none, 
392 ■• Govjper.' Olney Symns. 2>To. 3ft 



BIBLJEl — BIG OTBY. 45 

Most wondrous book! bright candle of tie Lord! 

Star of Eternity ! The only star 

By which the bark of niau could navigate 

The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss 

Securely. 

393 ' Polloh : Course of Time. Bk. ii. Line '270. 

Within this * awful volume lies 
The mystery of mysteries ! 
Happiest they of human race, 
To whom God has granted grace 
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, 
To lift the latch, and. force the way; 
And better had they ne'er been born, 
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. 
394= Scott : Monastery. Ch. xil 

BIGOTRY. 
Sure 'tis an orthodox opinion, 
That grace is founded in dominion. 

395 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1 173 
Soon their crude notions with each other fought ; 

The adverse sect deny'd what this had taught ; 
And he at length the amplest triumph gain'd, 
Who contradicted what the last maintain'd. 

396 Prior: Solomon. Bk. i. Line 71T 
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; 

His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. 

397 Pope : JSssay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 305 
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded 

That all the Apostles would have done as, they did. 

398 . Byron : Bon Juan. Canto i. St. 83 
Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side 

In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? 
Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried. 
If he kneel not before the same altar with me ? 
From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly, 
To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ? 
No! perish the hearts and the laws that try 
' Truth, valor, or love, by a standard like this. 

399 Moore: Come, Send Bound the Wine 

And many more such pious scraps, 

To prove (what we've long prov'd perhaps) 

That mad as Christians used to be 

About the thirteenth century, 

There's lots of Christians to be had 

In this, the nineteenth, just as mad! 

400 Moore : Twopenny Post Bag. Letter iv 

1 Var. that ample. 



46 BIRDS— BIB TUB A Y 

BIRDS. 
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, 
"When neither is attended ; and, I think, 
The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every"goose is cackling, would be thought 
iSTo better a musician than. the wren. 

401 Shales. : M. of Venice. Act t. Sc 1 
Ten thousand warblers cheer the day, and one 
The live-long night : nor these alone whose notes 
Mce-ftngered art must emulate in vain, 
But cawing rooks, and kites that swim sublime 

In still repeated circles, screaming loud, 
j The jay, the pie, and er'n the boding owl 

I; That hails the rising moon, have charms for me. 

402 . Cowper : Task. Bk. i. Line 200 
;; \£ou call them thieves and pillagers ; but know 

They are the winged wardens of your farms, 
Who from the cornfields drive the insidious foe, 

i] And from your harvests keep a hundred harms ; 

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, 
Renders good service as your man-at-arms, 
Crushing the beetle in Ms coat of mail, 

|r And crying havoc on the slug and snail. 

403 longfellow. Birds of Killingworfh. St. 19 
!'; Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these? 

Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught 

The dialect they speak, where melodies 

Alone are the interpreters of thought? 

"Whose household words are songs in many, keys, 
! lM' Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught I 

,.fiH : « , Whose habitations in the tree-tops even 

yff [; Are half-way houses on the road to heaven ! 

i % ! x 404 longfellow ; Birds of Eillingworth. St. 15 

Ifkf The birds, great nature's happy commoners, 

K|'; ;i , That haunt in woods, in meads, and flow'ry gardens, 

F ||;- : Eine the sweets and taste the choicest fruits, 

j ;. : Tet scorn to ask the lordly owner's leave. 

ij- ; 405 Bowe : Fair Benitent. Act ii. Sc. 2, 

: ||j : BIRTH— see Ancestry. 

jf'<. Let high birth, triumph ! what can be moie great? 

|| S Nothing ^- but merit in a low estate. 

% ; To virtue's humblest son let none prefer 

§ | Yice, though descended from the Conqueror. 

1 1 406 Young : love of Fame. Satire i. Line 13 L 

BrSTHDAT. 

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear, 

? Us but the fcneral of the former year. 

•| i; 407 Bope : To Mrs. M. B. Line a 

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BLR TED A r — BLINDNESS. 4 7 

My birthday ! — what a different sound 
That word had in my youthful ears ; 
And how each time the clay comes round, 
Less and less white its mark appears. 

408 Moore : My Birthday 
This is my birthday, and a happier one 

"Was never mine. 

409 Longfellow : Divine Tragedy. Second Passover. Pt. ii 
My birthday ! — " How many years ago ? 

Twenty or thirty? " Don't ask me! 
" Forty or fifty? " How can I tell? 
I do not remember my birth, yon see ! 

410 Julia G. B. Dorr: My Birthday. 
A birthday : — and now a day that rose 

With mnch of hope, with meaning rife — 
A thoughtful day from dawn to close : 
The middle day of human life. 

411 Jean Ingelow: A Birthday Walk. 
Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven. 

What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven. 

412 Bobert Browning : Bippa Basses. Sc. 1. 

BLACKGtTABDS. 
They each pull'd different ways, with many an oath, 
" Arcades ambo," id est — blackguards both. 

413 Byron : Don Juan. Canto Iv. St. 93. 

BLASPHEMY. 
Great men may jest with saints ; 'tis wit in them ; 
But, in the less, foul profanation. 



That in the captain's but a choleric word,' 
Which in the soldier is fiat blasphemy. 

414 Shales.: M. for. M. Actii. Sc. 2. 
And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, 

Because the insult's not on man, but God ? 

415 Bope : Epil. to Satires. Dialogue ii. Line 194. 
BLINDNESS. 

dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon ; 
Irrecoverably dark ! total ec?ipse, 
Without all hope of day. 

416 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 80. 
0, loss of sight, of thee I most complain ! 

Blind among enemies, worse than chains, 

Dungeons, or beggary, or decrepit age ! 

Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct, 

4nd all her various objects of delight 

Annul' d, which might in part my grief have eas'd. 

417 " Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 67 



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Thus with the year 
Seasons return, but not to me returns 
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, 
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; 
But cloud instead, and ever-durfng dark 
Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men 
Cut off, and for the book: of knowledge fair 
Presented with a universal blank 
Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, 
And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 

418 Milton : Far. Lost. Bk. hi. Line 4Q 
These eyes, though clear 

To outward view of blemish or of spot, 
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; 
Nor to their idle orbs cloth sight appear 
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, 
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not 
Against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot 
Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer 
Eight onward. 

419 Milton : Sonnet zziL Line X 
BLISS — see Happiness. 

Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, 
Bliss is the same in subject or in king. 

420 Pope : JEssay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 57. 
The spider's most attenuated thread 

Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie 

On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze. 

421 Young : Night Thoughts. Fight i. Line 178. 
BLUE — see Sky. 

O, " darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," 1 

As some one somewhere sings about the sky. 

422 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 110. 
BLUNTNESS. 

Eudeness is a sauce to his good wit, 

Which gives men stomach to digest Ms words 

"With better appetite. 

423 Shales. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i. Sc. 2 
I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, 

Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, 
To stir men's blood : I only speak right on. 

424 Shahs. : Jul. Gcesar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
These kind of knaves I know, which in their plainness 
Harbor more craft, and more corrupter ends, 

Than twenty silly ducking observants, 
That stretch their duties nicely. 

425 Shahs. : fflng Lear. Act ii. Sc, 2> 
igauthey; Madoc ia "W^les. y. 



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BL U25TTNES8 —BOAS TI2TG. 49 

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; 

Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. 

426 Pope : M on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 13. 

BLTTSHHSTG- — see Bashfulness. 
From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, 
Ten thousand little loves and graces spring 
To revel in the roses. 

427 Bowe : Tamerlane. Act i. Se. 1. 
The rising blushes, which her cheek o'erspread, 

Are opening roses in the lily's bed. 

428 Gay : Dione. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 

429 Pope : BJpil. to Satire. Dialogue i. Line 136. 
With every change his features played, 

As aspens show the light and shade. 

430 Scott : Bolceby. Canto iii. St. 5. 
G-irls blusb, sometimes, because they are alive, 

Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. 

The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; 

They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, 

And flare up boldly, wings and all. 

What then ? 

Who's sorry for a gnat ... or girl ? 

431 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. ii. Line 732. 

BOASTING— see Brag-g-art. 
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound. 

432 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc 4, 
The man that once did sell the lion's skin, 

While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. 

433 Shales. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc, 3 
What cracker is this same, that deaf s our ears 

With this abundance of superfluous breath? 

434 1 Shahs. : Xing John. Act ii. Sc 1 
Here's a large mouth, indeed, 

That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, and seas; 
, Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, 
As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs. 
4-35 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc 2 

£Tay, an thou'lt mouth, 
I'll rant as well as thou. 

436 Shales. : Samlet. Act v. Sc 1 
A mad-cap ruffian, and a swearing Jack, 

That thinks with oaths to face the matter out. 

437 Shahs.: Tarn, of the S. Actii. Sc. 1 
' We rise in glory, as we sink in pride : 

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. 

438 Young : Night Thoughts. Night yffi. Line 5JQ 



50 B OLDNESS — BO OKS. 

BOLDNESS. 
In conversation boldness now bears sway, 
Bat know, that nothing can so foolish be 
As empty boldness ; therefore, first assay 
To stuff thy mind with solid bravery; 
Then march on gallant. Get substantial worth, 
Boldness gilds finely, and will set it forth. 

439 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St, 34 

BOND. 

Til have my bond ; I will not hear thee speak ; 

I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more. 

440 SJiaks. : 31. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 3, 

, BOOKISHNESS— see Pedantry, Learning-. 
If The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 

With loads of learned lumber iu his head, 
% With his own tongue still edifies his ears, 

And always list'ning to himself appears. 

441 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 52. 

:g : BOOKS — see Authors, Reading-. 

They are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, 
•| ; contain, and nourish all the world. 

| | 442 Shahs. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, 

That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. 
443 Shahs. : Bom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 3. 

fi '■ A book ! rare one ! 

Be not, as is our f angled world, a garment 
• % I Nobler than that it covers. 

3| \: 444 Shales. : Cymbeline. Act v. Sc. 4. 

Was ever book containing such vile matter 

So fairly bound. 

445 Shahs. : Bom. and Ju% Act iii. Sc. 2 

I read books bad and good — some bad and good 
At once ; (good aims not always make good books ; 
Well-tempered spades turn up ill-smelling soils 
In digging vineyards, even :) books, that prove 
God's being so definitely, that man's doubt 
Grows self -defined the other side the line, 
' Made atheist by suggestion ; moral books 

Exasperating to license • genial books, 
Discounting from the human dignity; 
And merry books, which set you weeping when 
The sun shines — ay, and melancholy books, 
Which make you laugh that any one should weep, 
In this disjointed life, for one wrong more. 

446 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. \. Line 793 

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BOOKS. o\ 



Mark, there. "We get no good 

By being ungenerous, even to a boot, 

And calculating profits ... so much help 

By so much reading. It is rather when 
£ We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge 

Soul-forward, headloug, into a book's profound, 
f Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth — 

'Tis then we get the right good from a book. 

447 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. i. Line 718 
1 That place that does contain 

My books, the best companions, is to me 
A glorious court, where hourly I converse 
§: . With the old sages and philosophers j 

And sometimes, for vaiiety, I confer 
"With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. 

448 Beaumont & Fletcher: The Elder Brother. Acti. Se. 2. 
u O books, ye monuments of mind, concrete wisdom of the 

wisest j 

Sweet solaces of daily life, proofs and results of immor- 
tality; 

Trees yielding all fruits, whose leaves are for the healing 
of the nations ; 

Groves of knowledge, where all may eat, nor fear a flaming 
sword ; 

Gentle comrades, kind advisers ; friends, comforts, treas- 
ures, 

Helps, governments, diversities of tongues; who can 
weigh your worth? 

449 Tapper : Proverbial Bliil. Of Beading. 
"When, with gloomy fears oppressed, 

The trembling-hearted fain would rest, 
No opiate like a book, that- charms, 
By its deep spell, the mind's alarms. 

450 Mrs. Sale : Three Hours. First Hour. St. 8. 
Bright books ! the perspectives to our weak sights, 
The clear projections of discerning lights, 
Burning and shining thoughts, man's posthume day, 
The track of -fled souls, and their milky way, 
The dead alive and busy, the still voice 
Of enlarged spirits. 

451 Henry Vaughan : To His Books 
By sucking you, the wise, like bees, do grow 
Healing and rich though this they do most slow, 

- Because most choicely ; for as great a store 
Have we of books as bees of herbs, or more : 
And the great task to try, then know, the good 
To discern weeds and judge of wholesome food, 
Is a rare scant performance. 

452 Henry Vaughan : To His Books 



52 BOOKS— BOBM& 

"Worthy books 
Are not companions — they are solitnd.es. 

453 Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Village Feast 

Books should to one of these four ends condnce, 
Uor "wisdom, piety,. delight, or use. 

454 Denham: Of Prudence. 

'Twere veil with most, if books, that could engage 
Their childhood, pleased them at a riper age; 
The man approving what had charmed the boy, 
Would die at last in comfort, peace, and joy; 
And not with curses' on his art, who stole 
The gem of truth from his unguarded souL 
; 455 Cowper : Tirocinium. Line 147. 

Books cannot always please, however good; 
Minds are not ever craving for their food. 
|. 456 Or abbe: The Borough. Letter xxfv 

Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, 
Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; 
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, 
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 
457 Wordsworth : Personal Talk. 

! Some books are drenched sands, 

I On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps, 

!• Like a wrecked argosy. 

! 458 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama. Sc. 2. 

! t Books should, not business, entertain the light, 

And sleep as undisturbed as death, the night. 
I 459 ~ Cowley :■ Of Myself. 

The pleasant books, that silently among 
Our household treasures take familiar places, 
[■ " And are to us as if a living tongue 

I • Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces. 

460 Longfellow: Seaside and Fireside. Dedication. St. 6. 

[ Books are sepulchres of thought 

461 Longfellow : The Wind Over the Oliimney. St. 8. 

] • A blessing on the printer's art ! 

} Books are the Mentors of the heart. 

The Durning soul, the burdened mind, 
\. . In books alone companions find. 

[" 462 Mrs. Sale: Three Sours. First Sour. St. 7. 

|" BOJ&ES. 

!-. Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, 

[,: And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. 

£■' 463 Churchill: Independence. Line 295, 



B ORBS— B UNTY. 5 3 

0, lie's as tedious 
As is a tir'd horse, a railing wife ; 
Worse than a smoky house ; — I had rather live 
With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far, 
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to me, 
Li any summer-house in Christendom. 

464 Sliaks.: 1 Senary IV. Act ill. Sc. 1 
Again I hear that creaking step ! — 

He's rapping at the door ! — 

Too well I know the b 

That ushers in a bore. 

I do not tremble when I meet 

The stoutest of my foes, 

But Heaven defend me from the friend 

Who comes — but never goes. 

465 J. Gf. Saxe : My Familiar* 

BORROWING. 
Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 
2Tor loan o£t loses both itself and friend; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
This above all, — to thine own self be true; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou can'st not then be false to anv man. 

466 Shaks. : BLamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 

BOUNDS. 
There's nothing situate under Heaven's eye, 
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky. 

467 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

BOUNTY— see Benevolence. 
'Tis pity, bounty had not eyes behind ; 
That man might ne'er be wretched for his mind. 

468 Shaks.: TimonofA. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Shall I say to Caesar 

What you require of him? for he partly begs 
To be desir'd to give. It much would please him 
That of Ms fortunes you would make a staff 
' To lean upon. 

469 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 11 
3?or his bounty, 

There was no winter in't ; an autumn 'twas, 
That grew the more hj reaping. 

470 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 2. 
He thaf s liberal 

To all alike, may do a good by chance, 
But never out of judgment. 

471 Beaumont and Fletcher : Sp. Curate. Act i. Sc. 1 



54 -SO YHO OD — BBAIXS. 

BOYHOOD — see Children. 
The whining school-boy ; with his satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school 

472 Sliaks. : As You Like It. Act h Sc. ?- 
0, 'tis a parlous boy; 

Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable; 
He's all the mother's from the top to toe. 

473 Shales.: Bichard ILT. Act ill Sc. 1 
Ah ! happy years ! once more who would not be a boy? 

474 * ~ Byron: Oh. Harold. Canto ii. St. 23 
A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, 
And mis chief -making monkey from his birth. 

475 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 25. 

- - BRAGGAET — see Boasting-. 

Who art thou? Have not I 
An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? 
Thy words, I grant, are bigger,' for I wear not 
My dagger in my mouth. 

476 Shales. : Oymbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Who knows himself a braggart, 

Let him fear this : for it will come to pass 
That ev'ry braggart shall be found an ass. 

477 Shahs. : All's Well. Act if = Sc. 3. 
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, 
Brags of his substance, not of ornament : 
They are but beggars that can count their worth. 

478 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 6, 
jfi I know them, yea, 

And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple : 
Scrambling, outfacing, fashiou-monging boys, 
That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, 
Go anticly, and show outward- hideousness, 
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, 
How they might hurt their enemies if they durst ; 
And this is all. 

479 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act v. Sc. L 
h Why, then, the world's mine oyster, 
r Which I with sword will open. 

480 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

BRAINS. 

The times have been 
That, when the brains were out, the man would die, 
And there an end ; but now they rise again, 
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 
And push us from our stools. 

481 Shaks. : Macbeth. Actiii. Sc. 4* 



- 



BBALYS — BBJEBZES: 5 5 

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, 

Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. 

482 - Churchill: Epis. to Hogarth, 

BRAVERY — see Courage, Daring-. 
'Tls more brave 
To Iiye, than to die. 

483 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 11 
A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. 

484 Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Sc. 4 
Uone but the brave deserves the fair. 

485 Dryden : Alex. Mast. St.' 1 
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, 

By all their country's wishes blest ! 



By fairy hands their knell is sung, 
By forms unseen their dirge is rung. 

486 Collins : Lines in 1746. 

His breast with wounds unnumber'd riven, 
"Ffis back to earth, his face to heaven. 

487 Byron: Giaour. Line 675. 
The truly brave, 

When they behold the brave oppress'd with odds, 
Are touch'd with a desire to shield and save. 

488 Byron : Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 106. 
Pate made me what I am — may make me nothing, — 

But either that or nothing must I be ; 
I will not live degraded. 

489 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2> 

R rt, h! Q\7\ Hi S . 

A breeze came wandering from the sky, 
Light as the whispers of a dream ; 
He put the o'erhanging grasses by, 
And softly stooped to kiss the stream, 
The pretty stream, the flattered stream, 
The shy, yet unreluctant stream. 
. 490 William Cullen Bryant: The Wind and Stream 

Breezes of the South I 
Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, 
And pass the prairie-hawk that, poised on high, 
Plaps bis broad wings, yet moves not — ye have played 
Among the palms of Mexico and vines 
Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks 
That from the fountains of -Sonora glide 
Into the calm Pacific — have ye fanned 
A. nobler or a lovelier scene than this ? 
481 William Cullen Bryant: The Pr&iri&s 



5 6 BREEZES — BBITAIK 

Spirit that breatliest through my lattice, thou 
That cool's t the twilight of the sultry day, 
Gratefully flows thy freshness round my brow: 
Thou hast been out upon the deep at play, 
Riding all day the wild blue waves till now, 
Roughening their crests, and scattering high their spray 
! And swelling the white sail. I welcome thee 
To the scorched land, thou wanderer of the sea I 

492 William Cull en Bryant,: Evening Wind, 

£,TJ5V1TY. 

Since brevity is the soul of wit, 
And teoionsness the limbs and outward flourishes — 
I will be brief. 

493 Shahs. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Eor brevity is very good, 

When we are, or are not, understood. 

494 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto L Line 669. 
Stop not, uniMnking, every friend you meet 

To spin your wordy fabric in the street ; 
While you are emptying your coUoquial pack, 
The fiend Lumbago jumps upon his back. 

495 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Bhymed Lesson. Line 441 

BRIBES. 

What! shall one of us, 
That struck the foremost man of all this world, 
But for supporting robbers ; — shall we now 
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? 
And sell the mighty space of our large honors 
[For so much trash as may be grasped thns? 
I'd rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. 

496 Shahs.: Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. & 
Dead falls the cause, if once the hand be mute ; 

But let that speak, the client gets the suit. 

497 Herrick: Aph. Bribes and Gifts Get All 
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; 

Esteem and love were never to be sold. 

498 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 187. 
But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor 

feels. 

499 Tennyson : Locksley Hall. St. 53. 

BRITAIN" — see England. 
Let us be backed with G-od, and with the seas, 
Which he hath given for fence impregnable. 
And with their helps only defend ourselves ; 
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies. 

500 Shales. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 1 



BBITAJN—BUST. 57 

Be England what she will, 
slie is my country stilL 

501 Churchill: Farewell, 

Be Britain still to Britain true, 
Amang onrsels united ; 
Eor neyer but by British hands 
Maun British wTangs "be righted. 

502 Burns: Dumfries Volunteers. 

"Without one friend, above all foes, 
Britannia gives the world repose. 

503 Cowper: To Sir J. Reynolds. 

Oh! when shall Britain, conscicns of her claim. 
Stand emulous of Greek and Soman fame ; 
In living Medals see her wars enroll' d, 
And vanquished realms supply recording gold? 

504 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. v. Line 53. 
BBOOKS. 

A silvery brook comes stealing 
From the shadow of 'its trees, 
Where slender herbs of the forest stoop 
Before the entering breeze. 

505 William Cullen Bryant: The -Unknown Way 

BBOOM. 
Their' groves of sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon, 
Where bright-beaming sum m ers exalt the perfume ; 
Ear dearer to me yon lone glen o' green breckan, 
Wi' the burn stealing under the lang yellow broom. 

506 ' Burns: Song. 
BUILDING. 

Old houses mended, 
Cost little less than new "before they're ended'. 

507 GoTtey Gibber: Double Gallant. ProL 
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, 
Provides a home, from which to run away. 

50S Young: Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 1G.J 

BURKE (Edmund). 

' Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, 
We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; 
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, 
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind. 

509 ~ Goldsmith: Retaliation, Line 29 
BUSY— BUSINESS— see Industry . - 

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where 
And when, and how thy business may be. done, 
Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, 
Though he alights sometimes^ still goeth on. 

510 Herbert: Temple. Church Foroh. b-fc. 5? 



3 









52 B US Y— CALMNESS. 

To business that we love, we rise betimes, 
And go to it with delight. 

511 Shales. : Ant. and Gleo. Act iv. Sc. 4 

BUTTERCUPS. 
All will be gay when noontide wakes anew 
The buttercups, the little children's dower. 

512 Bob ert Browning : Some- Thoughts, From Abroad 

BUT YET. 

But yet, madam, — 
I do not like " but yet." It does allay 
The good precedence ; ne upon " but yet! " 
" But yet " is as a jailor to bring forth 
Some monstrous malefactor. 

513 Shales. : Aiit. and Cleo'. Act ii. Sc. 5. 



CALAMITY. 

Affliction is enamor'd of thy parts, 
And thou art wedded to calamity. 
514: Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 8. 

CALMNESS. 
Pure was the temp'rate air, an even calm 
Perpetual reign'd, save what the zephyrs bland 
Breath'd o'er the blue expanse. 

515 Thomson: Seasons. Spring. Line 323. 

So calm, the waters scarcely seem to stray, 
And yet they glide like happiness away. 

516 Byron : Lara. Canto i, St. 10 

The wind breathed soft as lovers sigh, 

And oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die, 

"With breathless pause between, 

who with speech of war and woes, 

Would wish to break the soft repose . 

Of such enchanting scene ! 

517 Scott : Lord of the Isles. Canto iv. St. ia 

. " How calm, how beautiful comes on 

The stilly hour, when storms are gone ; 
When warring winds have died away, 
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, 
Melt off, and leave the land and sea 
Sleeping in bright tranquillity I 

518 Moore: Lalla Bookh< Fire Worshippers. ^ 



CAL i'JIXY — CANT. 5 9 

CALUMNY. 
No might nor greatness in mortality 
Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny 
The whitest virtue strikes : what king so strong, 
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? 

519 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iii. Sc 2 
If I'm traduced by tongues, which neither know 

My faculties nor person, yet will be 
The chronicles of my doing — let me say, 
'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake 
That rirtue must go through. 

520 Shaks. : Henry VITI. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, 

Thou shall not escape calumny. 

521 /Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Calumny will sear 

Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, and ha's, 

522 Shaks. : Win. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

CANARY-BIRD. 
Bird of the amber be . 
Bird of the golden wing ! 
Thy dower is thy carolling ; 
Thou hast not far to se 
Thy bread . nor needest wine 
To mak<- fchiiie utterance divine; 
Thou an nopied and clothed 
And untc i tg betrothed ! 
In thy loi Kirial cage 
Thou nasi .hie ancient heritage - ? 

523 E.C. $l#dma?i: The Songster. A Midsummer Carol. St. 2. 

CANDOR. 

I hold it cowardice 
To rest mistrustful, where a noble heart 
Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love. 

521 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Sop positive, persisting fops we know, 
Who. if once v\ roug, will needs be always so; 
But you with pleasure own your errors past, 
And make each Jay a critique on the last. 

525 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 9, 

CANT — see Duplicity. 
Yes iiuer plunge me back in pagan night, 
An- ike my chance with Socrates for bliss, 
Thi be the Christian of a faith like this, 
Whit h builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway, 
And in a convert mourns to lose a prey. 

52(3 Moore : Intolerance. Line 68 



60 



CABE— CAUSE AND EFFECT. 



CARE. 
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, 
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. 

527 Shaks.: Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 3 
Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, 

For things that are not to be reraedie 

528 Shahs.: 1 Henry VI. Act iii. 8c. 3. 
Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, 

Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and grief. 

529 Shaks. : Bic; ard II. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Care that is enter'd once into the brea , 

Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. 

530 BenJonson: Tale of a Tub. Act i. Sc. 3. 



Pursues its feeble victim to the grave. 

531 Henry Kirke White : Childhood. Pt. ii. Line 17. 
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doub 

And every grin, so merry, draws one out. 

532 Peter Pindar Ex. Odes. Ode 15. 
When one is past, another care we hai ; 

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. 

533 Herri'-]: : Aph. Sorrows Succeed. 
Old Care has a mortgage on every est c 

And that's what you pay for the wealth i hat you get. 

534 J. G. Sa.xe: G Is of the Gods. 
CAREFULNESS. 

For my means, I'll husband them so well 
They shall go far with little. 

535 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
CATHAY. 

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle oi Cathay. 

536 Tennyson: Locks ley Hall. St. 92. 
CATHEDRALS — see Church. 

The high embower'd roof, 
With antique pillars, massy proof, 
And storied windows, richly dight, 
Casting a dim religious light. 

537 Milton : II T'<-nseroso. Line 157. 
CATO. 

Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, 

Who lent his lady to his friend Hort tsius. 

538 Byron: Don Juan. Canto a '. St. 7. 
CAUSE AND EFFECT. 

What dire offence from amorous causes springs, 
What mighty contests rise from trivial things. 

539 Pope : B. of the Lock. CanU i Line 1. 



CAUTION. Gl 

JAUTION — see Advice, Discretion. 
Let every ej-e negotiate for itself 
And trust no agent. 
51-0 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 1, 

Things done well, 
And with a care, exempt themselves from fear : 
Things done without example, in their issue 
Are to be fear'd. 

541 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Trust none ; 
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, 
And hold-fast is the only dog. 

542 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Be ad vis' d ; 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself : we may outrun, 
By violent swiftness, that \ :h we run at, 
And lose by over-running. 

543 " Shaks . Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1 
Fast bind, fast finci . 

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. 

544 Shaks.: 31. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

What, would'st thou have a serpent sting thee twice? 

545 Shaks. : 31. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks ; 
When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand ! 
When the sun sets, who doth not look for night? 
Untimely st rms make men expect a dearth : 
All may be well ; but, if God sort it so, 
'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect. 

546 Shaks. : Biehard III. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Know when to sp( ak; for many times it brings 
Danger, to give best advice to kings. 

547 Herrick: Aph. Caution in Council. 
Loc before you er : vou leap ; 

To \s you sow y' are like to reap. 

3 Boiler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 502, 

Tl mouse, that always trusts to one poor hole, 
C; never be a mouse of any soul. 

) Tope : Wife of Bath. Line 288 

L ;his great maxim be my virtue's guide : 
In irt is she to blame that has been tried ; 
H( >mes too near that comes to be denied. 

Lady 31. W. Montague: Lady's Be solve 
A o be fear'd where all is to be gained. 

Byron: Werner. Act ii. Sc. 2 



62 CA UTION— CHANCE. 

A man of sense can artifice disdain, 
As men of wealth may venture to go plain . . . 
I find the fool when i behold the screen, 
For 'tis the wise man's interest to be seen. 

552 Young : Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 193. 
Vessels large may venture more, 

But little boats should keep near shore. 

553 Franklin : Poor Bichard. 

CELIBACY — see Maidenhood. 
Lady, you are the crudest she alive, 
If you will lead these graces to the grave, 
And leave the world no copy. 

554 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 5. 
But earthly happier is the rose clistill'd, 

Thau that, which, withering on the virgin thorn, 
Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness. 

555 Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Our Maker bids increase , who bids abstain 

But our destroyer, foe to God and man? 

556 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 748. 

bachelor 
May thrive, by obs( vation, on a little; 
A single life's no burthen : but to draw 
In yokes is chargeable, and will require 
A double maintenance. 

557 Foi Fancies Chaste and Noble Act i. Sc. 3. 
CEREMONY. 

Ceremony was but devised at first 

To set a gloss oh faint deeds — hollow welcomes, 

Becanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown 

But where there is true friendship, ther i eds none. 

558 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 
The nice to meat is cerem 

Meeting were bare without it. 

559 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
CHALLENGE. 

There I throw my _ 
To prove it on thee, to the extremi st point 
Of mortal breathing. 

560 Shaks. : Bichard II Act iv. i. 
CHANCE — see Pride. 

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, 
I shot his fellow of the self -same flight, 
The self-same way, with more advised watch, 
To find the other forth ; and by adventuring both 
I oft found both. 

561 Shaks. : M. of Venice. Act :. 1. 



CHANCE— CHAOS. 63 

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawk'cl at, and kill'd. 

562 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
I have set my life upon a cast, 

And I will stand the hazard of the die. 

563 Shaks. : Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4. 
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul. 

564 Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Country Town. 
All nature is but art unknown to thee, 

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see. 

565 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 289. 

CHANGE. 
Alas ! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind, — 
Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined. 

566 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 127. 
Nature never stands still, nor souls either. They ever go 

up or go down. 

567 Julia C. R. Dorr: Outgrown. 
A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. 

568 Byron : Dream. St. 3. 
How chang'd since last her speaking eye 

Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room ; 
Where high-born men were proud to wait, 
Where beauty watched to imitate ! 

569 Byron: Parisina. St. 10. 
All but God is changing day by day. 

570 Charles Kingsley : Prometheus. 
Weep not that the world changes — did it keep 

A stable, changeless state, 't were cause indeed to weep. 

571 William Cullen Bryant : Mutation. 

Not in vain the distance beacons, forward, forward let us 

range. 
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves 

of change. 

572 Tennyson: Locksley Hall. St. 91. 

CHANGING. 
The stone that is rolling ca« gather no moss, 
Eor master and servant oft changing is loss. 

573 Tusser : 500 Pts. Good Hus. Lessons. 

CHAOS. 

Where eldest Night 
And chaos, ancestors of nature, hold 
Eternal anarchy amidst the noise 
Of endless wars. 

574 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 894 



64 CHA OS — OIL 1 h\ 1 C ' TEE. 

» 
For lie being dead, with him is beauty slain; 
And beauty dead, black chaos comes agaiu. 

575 Sh&ks. : Venus and Adonis. Line 1019. 
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, 

And unawares Morality expires, 

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; 

Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! 

Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored; 

Light dies before thy uncreating word : 

Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall; 

And universal darkness buries all. 

576 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 049. 

CHARACTER — see Fickleness, Detraction, Reputation. 
There is a kind of character in thy life, 
That to the observer doth thy history 
Fully unfold. 

577 Shaks. : M. for M. Act i. Sc. 1. 
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; 
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading: 

Lofty, and sour, to them that loved him not; 

But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. 

578 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; 

His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; 
His tears, pure messengers sent from his heart; 
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. 

579 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

Gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly, 
But eagles gazed upon with every eye. 

580 Shaks.: B. of Lncrece. Line 1014. 
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; 

He who would search for pearls must dive below. 

581 Dry den : All for Love. Prologue. 
Eorm'd by thy converse happily to steer 

Erom grave to gay, from lively to severe ; 
Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, 
Intent to reason, or polite to please. 

582 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 379. 
I Of manners gentle, of affections mild ! 

In wit a man, simplicity a child. 

583 Pope : On Gay. Line 1. 
Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? 

Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 

584 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 213. 
Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! 

Who relished a joke and rejoic'd in a pun. 

585 Goldsmith : Betaliation. Postscript. Line 3. 



CHABACTEB. 65 

Describe him who can, 
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 

586 Goldsmith : Betaliation. Line 93. 

He has done the work of a true man, — 
Crown him, honor him, love him. 
Weep over him, tears of woman, 
Stoop manliest brows above him! 

No duty could overtask him, 
No need his will outrun ; 
Or ever our lips could ask him, 
His hands the work had done. 

587 Whittier: To G. L. S. 

Learn to dissemble wrongs, to smile at injuries, 
And suffer crimes thou waut'st the power to punish ; 
Be easy, affable, familiar, friendly : 
Search, and know all mankind's mysterious ways. 
But trust the secret of thy soul to none. 

588 Boive : Ulysses. Act i. Sc. A Palace. 
As in a building 

Stone rests on stone, and wanting the foundation 
All would be wanting, so in human life 
Each action rests on the foregoing event, 
That made it possible, but is forgotten 
And buried in the earth. 

589 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. v. 

Her glossy hair was clustered o'er a brow 
Bright with intelligence, aud fair and smooth; 
Her eyebrows' shape was like the aerial bow ; 
Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth. 

590 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 61. 

A truer, nobler, trustier heart, 
More loving, or more loyal, never beat 
Within a human breast. 

591 Byron: Two Foscari. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

With more capacity for love, than earth 
Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, 
His early dreams of good out-stripp'd the truth, 
And troubled manhood follow'cl baffled youth. 

592 Byron: Lara. Canto i. St. 18= 

To those who know thee not, no words can paint ! 
And those who know thee, know all words are faint ! 

593 Hannah More : Sensibility. 
Worth, courage, honor, these indeed 

Your sustenance and birthright are. 

594 E. C. Stedman : Beyond the Portals. Pt. 10 



QQ CHABACTEB — CHARITY. 

Iii all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, 
Tliou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, 
Hast so much wit aud mirth, and spleen about thee, 
There is no living- with thee, nor without thee. 

595 Addison's Trans, of Martial, xii. 47. 
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 

And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, 
Wrought in a sad sincerity ; 
Himself from God he could not free ; 
He builded better than he knew ; — 
The conscious stone to beauty grew. 

596 Emerson : TJie Problem. Line ±9. 
Love, hope, fear, faith, — these make humanity; 

These are its sign, and note, and character. 

597 Bobert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 3. 
Strong souls 

Live like fire-hearted suns, to spend their strength 
In furthest striving action. 

598 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iv. 
Full souls are double mirrors, making still 

An endless vista of fair things before 
Repeating things behind. 

599 George Eliot: A Minor Prophet. 

CHARITY — see Beggars, Benevolence. 
Eor his bounty, 
There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, 
That grew the more by reaping. 

600 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 2. 
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 

Open as day, for melting charity ; 

Yet, notwithstanding, being iucens'd, he's flint; 

As humorous as winter, and as sudden 

As flaws congealed in the spring of day. 

601 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, 

But to support him after. 

602 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Charity itself fulfils the law, 

And who can sever love from charity? 

603 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
They serve God well 

"Who serve his creatures. 

604 Mrs. Norton: Lady of La Garaye. 
Alas for the rarity 

Of Christian charity 
Under the sun ! 

605 Hood : Bridge of Sighs, 



CHARITY— CHEATING. 67 

Your bounty is beyond my speaking ; 
But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shah thank you. 

GOG Rowe : Jane Shore. Act ii. Sc. I. 

in faith and hope the world will disagree, 
But all mankind's concern is charity : 
All must be false that thwart this one great end ; 
And all of God, that bless mankind, or mend. 

607 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. in. Line 307. 

Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, 
Do good hy stealth, and blush to find it fame. 

G08 Pope : Epil. to Satires. Dialogue i. Line 135. 

There are, while human miseries abound, 
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, 
Without one fool or flatterer at your board, 
Without one hour of sickness or disgust. 

GOO Armstrong : Art of Preserving Health. Line 176. 

True charit} r , a plant divinely nurs'd, 
Fed by the love from which it rose at first, 
Thrives against hope, and, in the rudest scene, 
Storms but enliven its unfading green ; 
Exuberant is the shadow it supplies, 
Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies. 

610 Cowper : Charity. Line 573 
The drying up a single tear has more 

Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. 

611 Byron : Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 3. 

CHASTITY— see Purity. 

Chaste as the icicle 
That's curded by the frost from purest snow, 
And hangs on Dian's temple. 

612 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3. 

CHATHAM. 
His speech, his form, his action, fall of grace, 
And all his country beaming in his face, 
He stood, as some inimitable hand 
Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand. 

613 Cowper: Table Talk. Line 347. 

CHATTERTON. 

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 

The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride. 

Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy, 

Following his plough along the mountain side. 

6 If Wordsworth: Res. and Indep. St. 7. 

CHEATING. 

Doubtless the pleasure is as great, 

Of being cheated as to cheat. 

615 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto iii. Line 1. 



68 CHEEBFULNESS — CHILD. 

CHEERFULNESS. 

Let me play the fool ; 
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; 
And let my liver rather heat with wine, 
Than my heart cool with mortifying- groans. 
Why should a man whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? 
Sleep when he wakes? and creep into the jaundice 
By being peevish? 

616 Shaks. : M. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1 
A merry heart goes all the clay, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. 

617 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
It is good 

To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. 

618 James Bussell Lowell : Legend of Brittany. Pt. i. St. 35. 
What then remains, but well our power to use, 

And keep good-humor still, whate'er we lose? 

And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, 

When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail- 

619 Fope: B. of the Lock. Canto v. Line 29. 

CHIDING. 
If she do frown 'tis not in hate of you, 
But rather to beget more love in you ; 
If she do chide 'tis not to have you gone. 

620 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Those that do teach young babes, 

Do it with gentle means, and easy tasks ; 

He might have chid me so ; for, in good faith, 

I am a child to chiding. 

621 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, 

When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. 

622 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

CHILD — CHILDHOOD — CHILDREN. 
The royal tree hath left us royal fruit, 
Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time, 
Will well become the seat of majesty, 
And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign. 

623 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. 
O wonderful son, that cau so astonish a mother ! 

624 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter ; 

Or, rather, a disease that's in my flesh, 
Which I must needs call mine ; thou art a boil. 

625 Shaks. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc 4 



CHILD. 69 

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem. 

626 Shales. : Mid. X. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Behold, my lords, 
Although the priut be little, the whole matter 
And copy of the father : eye, nose, lip, 
The trick of his frown, his forehead; nay, the valley, 
The pretty dimples of his chin, and cheek; his smiles, 
The very mould and frame of hand, nail, linger. 

627 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
The poor wren, 

The most diminutive of birds, will tight, 
Heryouug ones in her nest, against the owl. 

G28 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. % 

The childhood shows the man, 
As morning shows the day. 

G29 Milton : Par. Begained. Bk. iv. Line 220. 

Ah ! what would the world be to us 
If the children were no more? 
We should dread the desert behind us 
Worse than the dark before. 

630 Longfellow: Children. 

Thanks to the gods, my boy has done his duty ! 
— Portius, Avhen I am dead, be sure thou place 
His urn near mine. 

G31 Addison : Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. 

632 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 275. 

Pew sons attain the praise 
Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace. 

G33 Pope : Odyssey. Bk. ii. Line 305. 

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; 
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. 

634 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 238. 
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd ; 

The sports of children satisfy the child. 

635 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 153. 
A lovely being, scarcely form'd or moulded, 

A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded. 

636 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xv. St. 43 
Look how he laughs and stretches out his arms, 

And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine, 
To hail his father : while his little form 
Flutters as wing'd with joy. Talk not of pain ! 
The childless cherubs well might envy thee 
The pleasures of a parent. 

G37 Byron: Cain. Act iii. Sc. L 



70 CHILD. 

He smiles, and sleeps ! — Sleep on 
And smile, thou little, young inheritor 
Of a world scarce less young : sleep on, and smile ! 
Thine are the hours and days when both are eheering 
And innocent! 

638 Byron: Cain. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Living jewels dropp'd unstained from heaven. 

639 ' Pollok : Coarse of Time. Bk. v. Line 158. 

But still I dream that somewhere there must be 
The spirit of a child that waits for me. 

640 Bayard Taylor : The Poet's Journal. Third Evening. 

Why was my prayer accepted? why did Heav'n 
In anger hear me, when I ask'd a son? 

G4l" Hannah More : Moses. Pt. i. 

The child is father of the man. 

642 Wordsworth : My Heart Leaps. Line 7. 

Women know 
The way to rear up children (to be just) ; 
They know a simple, merry, tender knack 
Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, 
And stringing pretty words that make no sense, 
And kissing full sense into empty words ; 
Which things are corals to cut life upon, 
Although such trifles. 

643 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. i. Line 48. 

Twelve years ago I was a boy, 
A happy boy, at Drury's. 

644 Praed : School and School-fellows. 

If there is anything that will endure 

The eye of God, because it still is pure, 

It is the spirit of a little child, 

Fresh from his hand, and therefore undefiled. 

Nearer the gate of Paradise than we, 

Our children breathe its airs, its angels see; 

And when they pray, God hears their simple prayer, 

Yea, even sheathes his sword, in judgment bare. 

645 P. H Stoddard: The Children's Prayer. 

Who can foretell for what high cause 
This Darling of the Gods was born? 

646 Andrew Marvell : Picture of Little T. C 

You hear that boy laughing? — you think he's all fun; 
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done ; 
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, 
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all ! 

647 Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Boys. St. 9. 



CHILD — CUB IS T. 71 

Children, ay, forsooth, 
They bring their own love with them when they come, 
But if they come not there is peace and rest ; 
The pretty lambs ! and 3 r et she cries for more : 
Why the world's full of them, and so is heaven — 
They are not rare. 

648 Jean Ingelow: Supper at the Mill. 

As pure as a pearl, 
And as perfect : a noble and innocent girl. 

649 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 16. 
Children are the keys of Paradise. 

They alone are good and wise, 

Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer. 

650 B. H Stoddard: The Children's Prayer. 

CHOICE. 
God made thee perfect, not immutable ; 
And good he made thee, but to persevere 
He left it in thy pow'r ; ordained thy will 
By nature free, not over-rul'd by fate 
Inextricable, or strict necessity. 
Our voluntary service He requires, 
Not our necessitated. 

651 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 524. 
Still to ourselves in every place consigned 

Our own felicity we make or find. 

652 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 431.' 
Follow thou thy choice. 

653 William Cullen Bryant: Alcayde of Molina. 

CHOLER. 
Must I give way and room to your rash choler? 
Shall I be frighted when a madman stares? 

654 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Let your reason with your choler question 

What 'tis you go about. 

655 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. 

CHRIST. 
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, 
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : 
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free. 

656 Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the Bepublic. 
Hail to the King of Bethlehem, 

Who weareth in his diadem 
The yellow crocus for the gem 
Of his authority. 

657 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iii. 



72 CUBIST- CHRISTMAS. 

Christ — the one great word 
Well worth all languages in earth or Heaven. 
G5S Bailey: Festus. Sc. Heaver,. 

CHRISTMAS. 
At Christmas play, and make good cheer, 
For Christmas comes but once a year. 

659 Tusser: 500 Bts. Good Hits. Ch. xii. 

Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace ; 
East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease : 
Sing the song of great joy that the angels begau, 
Sing of glory to God aud of good will to man ! 
Hark ! joining in chorus 
The heavens bend o'er us ! 

The dark night is ending, and dawn has begun. 
6G0 Whittier : A Christmas Carmen. St. 3. 

Again at Christmas did we weave 
The holly round the Christmas hearth ; 
The silent snow possess'd the earth. 

661 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. lxxvii. St. 1. 

The dawn of Christ is beaming blessings o'er the new-born 
world. 

662 H. H. Boyesen : Earl Sigurd's Christmas Eve. 

Lo ! now is come our joyful'st feast! 

Let every man be jolly. 

Each room with ivy leaves is drest, 

And every post with holly. 

Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, 

And Christmas blocks are burning ; 

Their ovens they with bak't meats choke, 

And all their spits are turning. 

663 Wither : Christmas Carol. 

This happy day, whose risen sun 
Shall set not through eternity, 
This holy day when Christ the Lord, 
Took on him our humanity, 
Eor little children everywhere 
A joyous season still we make, 
We bring our precious gifts to them, 
Eveu for the dear child Jesus' sake. 

664 Phoebe Gary: Christmas. 

At Christmas-tide the open hand 
Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land. 
And none are left to grieve alone, 
Eor Love is heaven and claims its own. 

665 Margaret E. Sangster : Christmas- Tide. 



GHBISTMAS — CHUB CH 73 

Heap on more wood ! the wind is chill ; 

But let it whistle as it will, 

We'll keep our Christmas merry still. 

66(j Scott: Marmion. Cauto vi. Introduction. 

No trumpet-blast profaned 

The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born ; 
No bloody streamlet stained 
Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn ; 
But, o'er the peaceful plain, 
The war-horse drew the peasant's loaded wain. 

667 William Cull en Bryant: Christmas in 1875. 
The sun doth shake 

Light from his locks, and, all the way 
Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. 

668 Henry Vaughan: Christ's Nativity. 
CHURCH — see Cathedral, Clergyman, Religion. 

Then might ye see 
Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost 
And flutter' d into rags ; then reliques, beads, 
Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, 
The sport of winds ; all these upwhirl'd aloft 
Fly to the rearward of the world far off 
Into a limbo large and broad, since called 
The paradise of fools. 

669 Milton: Bar. Lost. Bk. iii. Line 489. 
What makes a church a den of thieves? 

A dean and chapter, and white sleeves. 

670 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1285. 
Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, 

Will never mark the marble with his name. 

671 Bope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 285. 
Church ladders are not always mounted best 

B} T learned clerks and latinists professed. 

672 Cowper: Tirocinium. Line 381. 
" What is a church? " Let truth and reason speak; 
They would reply— " The faithful pure and meek, 

Prom Christian folds, the one selected race, 
Of all professions, and in every place." 

673 Crabbe : The Borough. Letter ii. 
What is a church? — Our honest sexton tells 

'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. 

67-4 Crabbe: The Borough. Letter ii 

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always builds a chapel there : 
And 'twill be found upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

675 Defoe: True Born Englishman. Line 1 



74 CHUB CHYABD — CLEIl Q TMAN. 

CHURCHYARD — see Grave. 

The solitary, silent, solemn scene, 
Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, 
Blended in dust together ; where the slave 
Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud 
Resigns his power ; the miser drops his hoard ; 
Where human folly sleeps. 

676 Dyer : Buins of Borne. Line 540. 
CHURLISHNESS. 

My master is of churlish disposition, 
And little recks to find the way to heaven, 
By doing deeds of hospitality. 

677 Shaks. : As You Like B. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

CIRCUMSTANCES. 

And grasps the skirts of happy chance, 
And breasts the blows of circumstance. 

678 Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. lxiii. St. 2. 

CITIZEN. 

Religious, punctual, frugal, and so forth; 

His word would pass for more than he was worth. 

One solid dish his week-day meal affords, 

And added pudding solemniz'd the Lord's. 

679 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 343. 

CLEANLINESS. 

E'en from the body's purity, the mind 
Receives a secret sympathetic aid. 

680 Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 1269. 

CLERGYMAN — see Church, Preaching-. 

Then shall they seek t' avail themselves of names, 
Places, and titles, and with these to join 
Secular power, though feigning still to act 
By spiritual, to themselves appropriating 
The Spirit of God, promised alike and given 
To all believers. 

681 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 516. 

Near yonder copse, where once the garden sniil'd, 
And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, 
There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, 
The village preacher's modest mansion rose. 
A man he was to all the country dear, 
And passing rich with forty pounds a year. 

682 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 137 

In his duty prompt at every call, 

He watch'd, and wept, and felt, and pray'd for all. 

683 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 165 



CLE B GYM AN 75 

At church, with meek and unaffected grace, 
His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; 
Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, 
Aud fools, who came to scoff, remain'cl to pray. 

G84: Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 177. 

Your Lordship and your Grace, what school can teach 

A rhetoric equal to those parts of speech? 

What need of Homer's verse, or Tully's prose, 

Sweet interjections ! if he learn but those? 

Let rev'rend churls his ignorance rebuke, 

Who starve upon a dog's ear'd Pentateuch, 

The Parson knows euough who knows a Duke. 

685 Coioper : Tirocinium. Line 397. 

He that negotiates between God and man, 
As God's ambassador, the grand concerns 
Of judgment and of mercy, should beware 
Of lightness in his speech. 
68G Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 463. 

I venerate the man, whose heart is warm, 

Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life 

Coiuciclent, exhibit lucid proof 

That he is honest in the sacred cause. 

687 Coioper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 372. 

In man or woman, but far most in man, 
And most of all in man that ministers, 
And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe 
All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn : 
Object of my implacable disgust. 

688 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 414. 

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark ! 
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. 

689 Cowper : On Some Names of Little Note. 

Whate'er 
I may have been, or am, doth rest between 
Heaven and myself. — I shall not choose a mortal 
To be my mediator. 

690 Byron : Manfred- Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, 
And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone. 

691 Byron: Corsair. Canto ii. St. 3. 

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? 
About two hundred pounds a year. 
And that which was prov'cl true before, 
Prove false again? Two hundred more. 

692 Butler- Hudibrao. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1277 



76 CLEBG YUAN— CL O UBS. 

Be sure to keep up congregations, 
In spite of laws and proclamations, 

For charlatans can do no good, 
Until they're mounted in a crowd. 

693 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 969 

The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd : 
Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. 
His preaching much, but more his practice wrought — 
(A living sermon of the truths he taught — ) 
For this by rules severe his life he squar'd, 
That all might see the doctrine which they heard. 
691 Dryden: Character of a Good Parson. Line 75. 

Hear how he clears the points o' faith 
Wi' rattlin an' thumpiu ! 
Now meeklj" calm, now wild in wrath, 
He's stampin, an' he's jumpin ! 

695 Bums: Holy Fair. St. 13. 

CLOUDS. 
The clouds consign tneir treasure to the fields, 
And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool 
Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, 
In large effusion o'er a freshen'd world. 

696 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 173 

Bright clouds, 
Motionless pillars of the brazen heaven — 
Their bases on the mountains — their white tops 
Shining in the far ether — tire the air 
With a reflected radiance, and make turn 
The gazer's eye away. 

697 William Cullen Bryant : Summer Wind. 

Beautiful cloud ! with folds so soft and fair, 

Swimming in the pure quiet air ! 

Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while below 

Thy shadow o'er the vale moves slow ; 

Where, midst their labor, pause the reaper train, 

As cool it comes aloug the grain. 

698 William Cullen Bryant : To a Cloud. 

The August cloud 
. . . suddenly 
Melts into streams of rain. 

699 William Cullen Bryant: Sella 

Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows 

In yonder West : the fair frail palaces, 

The fading Alps and archipelagoes, 

And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. 

700 T. B. Aldrich : Miracles. 



CLOUDS. 77 

Clouds on the western side 
Grow gray and grayer, hiding the warm sun. 

701 Christina G. Bossetti : Twilight Calm, 

When evening touched the cape's low rim, 
And dark fell on the waves, 
We onry saw processions dim 
Of clouds, from shadowy caves ; 
These were the ghosts of buried ships 
Gone down in one brief hour's eclipse. 

702 James T. Fields: Morning and Evening by the Sea. 

Bathed in the tenderest purple of distance, 

Tinted and shadowed by pencils of air, 

Thy battlements hang o'er the slopes and the forests, 

Seats of the Gods in the limitless ether, 

Looming sublimely aloft and afar. 

703 Bayard Taylor: Kilimandjaro. 

They are fair resting-places 
For the dear weary dead on their way up to heaven. 

704 Joaquin Miller : Ina. Sc. 1. 

One single cloud, a dusky bar, 

Burnt with dull carmine through and through, 

Slow smouldering in the summer sky, 

Lies low along the fading west. 

705 Celia Thaxter : Song. 

Cloud-walls of the morning's gray 
Faced with amber column, 
Crowned with crimson cupola 
From a sunset solemn. 
May-mists, for the casements, fetch, 
Pale and glimmering, 
With a sunbeam hidTin each, 
And a smell of spring. 

706 Mrs. Browning : Tlie House of Clouds. 

I loved the Clouds. 
Fire-fringed at dawn, or reel with twilight bloom, 
Or stretched aboA'e, like isles of leaden gloom 
In heaven's vast deep, or drawn in belts of gray, 
Or dark blue walls along the base of day ; 
Or snow-drifts luminous at highest noon, 
Bagged and black in tempests, veined with lightning, 
And when the moon was brightening 
Impearled and purpled by the cha*ngeful moon. 

707 B. H. Stoddard: Carmen Naturae Triumphale. 

Those clouds are angels' robes. — That fiery west 
Is paved with smiling faces. 

708 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy. Act i. Sc, 3. 



78 CL OUDS— COMMENT A TOES. 

I see in the south uprising a little cloud, 
That before the sun shall be set will cover the sky above 
us as with a shroud. 

709 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv. 

By unseen hands uplifted in the light 

Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud 

"Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, 

And wafted up to heaven. 

710 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 2. 

The hooded clouds, like friars, 
Tell their beads' in drops of rain. 

711 Longfellovj : Midnight Mass, 

^OACH. 

Go, call a coach, and let a coach be call'd, 

And let the man who calleth be the caller, 

And in his calling let him nothing call 

But coach ! coach ! coach ! oh, for a coach, ye gods ! 

712 Carey: Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3. 

COCK-CROWING. 

Hark, hark! I hear 

The strain of strutting chanticleer 

Cry, Cock-a-doodle-doo. 

713 Shaks. : Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. Song. 

The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, 
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat 
Awake the god of day. 

714 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1. 

COLLECTOR. 
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. 

715 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

COMFORT. 

O, my good lord, that comfort comes too late ; 
'Tis like a pardon after execution : 
That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'cl me ; 
But now I'm past all comforts here but pravers. 

716 Shaks. : Henry VLLL Act iv. Sc. 2. 

COMMENTATORS. 

These leave the sense, their learning to display, 
And those explain the meaning quite away. 

717 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 116- 

Oh ! rather give me commentators plain , 
Who with no deep researches vex the brain, 
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, 
And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. 

718 Crabbe : Parish Register. Pt. i. Line 89. 



COMMENTATORS— COMPENSATION. 79 

How commentators each dark passage shun, 
And hold their farthing candle to the sun. 

719 Young: Love of Fame. Satire vii. Line 97. 

COMPARISONS. 

( Comparisons are odorous. 

720 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
When the moon shone, we did not see the candle ; 

So cloth the greater glory dim the less. 

721 Shaks. : Met: of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1. 

In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, 
Save thine ''incomparable oil," Macassar! 

722 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 17. 

COMPASSION— see Pity. 
Press not a falling man too far ; 'tis virtue. 

723 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

O, heavens ! can you hear a good man groan, 
And not relent, or not compassion him? 

724 Shaks. : Titus And. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, 
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, 
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you 
From seasons such as these? Oh. I have ta'en 
Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel; 
That thou may'st shake the superflux to them, 
And show the heavens more just. 

725 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

COMPENSATION. 
Under the storm and the cloud to-day, 
And to-day the hard peril and pain — 
To-morrow the stone shall be rolled away, 
For the sunshine shall follow the rain. 
Merciful Father, I will not complain, 
I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. 

726 Joaquin Miller: For Princess 3faud. 
The fiercest agonies have shortest reign ; 

And after dreams of horror, comes again 
The welcome morning with its rays of peace. 

727 William Cullen Bryant : Mutation. 

There is a day of sunny rest 
, For every dark and troubled night ; 
And grief may hide an evening guest, 
But joy shall come with early light. 

728 William C. Bryant: Blessed are They that Mourn. 



80 COMPENSA TION— COMPLEXION. 

Oh, deem not they are blest alone 
Whose lives a peaceful tenor keep ; 
The Power who pities man hath shown 
A blessing for the eyes that weep. 

729 William C. Bryant: Blessed are They that Mourn 
Here is the longing, the vision, 

The hopes that so swiftly remove; 
There is the blessed fruition, 
The feast, and the fulness of love. 

730 Alice Gary: Here and There. 
One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea; 

He built a bridge, but floods have borne it down ; 
He meant much good, none came : strauge destiny, 
His corn lies sunk, his bridge bears none to town, 
Yet good he had not meant became his crown; 
For once at work, when even as nature, free 
From thought of good he was, or of renown, 
God took the work for good and let good be. 

731 Jean Ingelow: Compensation* 
They that are sad on earth in Heaven shall sing. 

732 Beaumont & Fletcher. Wife for a Month. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

"Pis toil's reward that sweetens industry, 

As love inspires with strength th' enraptur'd thrush. 

733 Ebenezer Elliott : Corn Lavj Hymns. 
O yet we trust that somehow good 

Will be the final goal of ill. 

734 Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. liii. 

O weary hearts ! slumbering eyes ! 
O drooping souls, whose destinies 
Are fraught with fear aud pain, 
Ye shall be loved again ! 

735 Longfellow : Endymion, St. 7. 
Regret and faith alike enchain ; 

There was a loss, there comes a gain; 
We stand at fault betwixt the twain, 
And that is veiled for which we pant. 

736 Jean Ingelow : Scholar and Carpenter. St. 17. 

And light is mingled with the gloom, 

And joy with grief ; 

Divinest compensations come, 

Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom 

In sweet relief. 

737 Whittier: Anniversary Poem. St. 15. 

COMPLEXION. 
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 

738 Shaks. : Tiv. Night. Act i. Sc. 5. 



COMPLIMENTS— CONFIDENCE. 81 

COMPLIMENTS. 
The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek, 
Pleads your fair usage. 

739 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iv. Sc. 4, 

CONCEALMENT — see Love. 
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all. 

740 Shaks. : Othello Act iii. Sc. 3. 

CONCLUSION. 
0, most lame and impotent conclusion? 

741 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

CONDUCT. 
Have more than thou showest, 
Speak less than thou knowest, 
Lend less than thou owest. . . . 
Learn more than thou trowest, 
Set less than thou throwest. 

742 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. 

The man who consecrates his hours 
By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, 
At once he draws the sting of life and death ; 
He walks with nature, and her paths are peace. 

743 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 187. 

To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? 
Net to the beast that would usurp their den. 
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick? 
Not his that spoils her young before her face. 
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal sting? 
Not he that sets his foot upon her back. 
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on ; 
And doves will peck, in safeguard of their brood. 

744 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2, 

CONFESSION. 

Come, now again thy woes impart, 
Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin ; 
W3 cannot heal the throbbing heart, 
Till we discern the wounds within. 

745 Crabbe: Hall of Justice. Pt. ii. 

CONFIDENCE. 

I will believe 
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know ; 
And so far will I trust thee. 

746 Shales. : 1 Henry IV. Actii. Sc. 3 



82 CONFIDENCE— CONSCIENCE. 

Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over 
them and in them ; 

The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand 
quail : 

A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of 
battle, 

And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled : 

The tenderest child, unconscious of a fear, will shame the 
man to danger, 

And when he dared it, danger died, and faith had van- 
quished fear. 

747 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Faith. 

CONSCIENCE. 

Leave her to heaven, 
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, 
To prick and sting her. 

748 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; 

And thus the native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; 
And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
With this regard their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. 

749 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind ; 

The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

750 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI Act v. Sc. 6. 
Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just; 

And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 

751 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI Act iii. Sc. 2. 
I feel within me 

A peace above all earthly dignities, 
A still and quiet conscience. 

752 Shaks. : Henry VIII Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Unnatural deeds 

Do breed unnatural troubles : Infected minds 
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. 

753 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The color of the king doth come and go, 

Between his purpose and his conscience, 
Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set : 
His passion is so ripe, it needs must break. 

754 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Conscience is harder than our enemies, 

Knows more, accuses with more nicety. 

755 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i. 



CONSCIENCE. 83 

He that has light within his own clear breast, 
Maj r sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright clay ; 
But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, 
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; 
Himself is his own dungeon. 

756 Milton: Comus. Line 381. 

conscience, into what abyss of fears 

And horrors hast thou driven me ; out of which 

1 find no way, from deep to deeper piling' d ! 

757 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 842. 

Why should not conscience have vacation, 
As well as other courts o' th' nation? 
Have equal power to adjourn, 
Appoint appearance, and return? 

758 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 317. 

One self -approving hour whole years outweighs 
Of stupid starers, and of loud huzzas. 

759 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 255. 

Some scruple rose, but thus he eas'd his thought, 
I'll now give sixpence where I gave a groat ; 
Where once I went to church, I'll now go twice, 
And am so clear too of all other vice. 

760 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 265. 

But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws 
So much, as when we call our old debts in 
At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, 
And find a deuced balance with the devil. 

761 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 167. 

A quiet conscience makes one so serene ! 
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded 
That all the apostles would have done as they did. 

762 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 83. 

Though thy slumber may be deep, 

Yet thy spirit shall not sleep ; 

There are shades that will not vanish, 

There are thoughts thou canst not banish. 

763 Byron : Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1. 

There is no future pang- 
Can deal that justice on the self-condemn'd 
He deals on his own soul. 

764 Byron : Manfred. Act iii. Sc. L 
Yet still there whispers the small voice within, 

Heard through gain's silence, and o'er glory's din : 
Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, 
Man's conscience is the oracle of God ! 

765 Byron: Island. Canto i. St 6. 



84 CONSCIENCE— CONSTANCY. 

Oh! conscience! conscience! man's most faithful friend, 
Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend : 
But if he will thy friendly checks forego, 
Thou art, oh ! woe for me, his deadliest foe ! 

766 • Crabbe: Struggles of Conscience. Last Lines 

Conscience, a terrifying little sprite, 
That, bat-like, winks by day, and wakes by night ; 
Hunts through the heart's dark holes each lurking vice, 
As sharp as weasels hunting eggs or mice. 

767 Peter Pindar: Tlie Lousiad. Canto ii. 

CONSIDERATION. 

What you have said, 
I will consider; what you have to say, 
I will with patience hear : and find a time 
Both meet to hear and answer. 

768 Shaks. : Jul. Coasar Act i. Sc. 2. 

Consideration like an angel came, 

And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him. 

769 Shales. : Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. 

CONSOLATION. 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; 
Eaze out the written troubles of the brain ; 
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
Cleanse the stuff d bosom of that perilous stuff, 
Which weighs upon the heart. 

770 Shales. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3. 

CONSPIRACY. 

Oh ! think what anxious moments pass between 
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods ; 
Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, 
Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death. 

771 Addison: Cato. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed 
Than executed. 

772 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 2, 

CONSTANCY. 

I am constant as the northern star, 
Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 

773 ShaJes. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

O heaven ! were man 
But constant, he were perfect ; that one error 
| Fills him with faults ; makes him run through all th' sins. 

774 Shales. : Tv:o Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 



CONSTANCY— CONTEMPT. 85 

Tell hhn I love him yet, 
As in that joyous time ; 
Tell him I ne'er forget, 
Though memory now be crime. 

775 Praed: Tell Him I Love Him Yet. 

Changeless march the stars above, 
Changeless morn succeeds to even; 
And the everlasting hills. 
Changeless watch the changeless heaven. 

776 Charles King sley : Saint's Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Oh, the heart, that has truly loved, never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close, 
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, 
The same look which she turn'cl when he rose. 

777 Moore: Believe Me if Those Endearing Young Charms. 

Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, 
We will stand by each other, however it blow. 
Oppression, and sickness, and sorrow, and pain 
Shall be to our true love as links to the chain. 

778 Longfellow: Annie of Th. Tr. from Simon Each. St. 4. 

Sooner shall this blue ocean melt to air, 
Sooner shall earth resolve itself to sea, 
Than I resign thine image, Oh my fair! 
Or think of anything, excepting thee. 

779 Byron : Eon Juan. Canto ii. St. 19. 

CONTEMPT. 
What valor were it, when a cur doth grin. 
For one to thrust his hand between his teeth, 
When he might spurn him with his foot away? 

780 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 4. 

From no one vice exempt, 
And most contemptible to shun contempt. 

781 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 194. 

Think not . . . there is no smile 
I can bestow on thee. There is a smile, 
A smile of nature too. which I can spare, 
And yet, perhaps, thou wilt not thank me for it. 

782 Joanna Baillie : Be Monfort. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd 

string? 
I am sham'd through all my nature to have iov'd so slight 

a thing. 

783 Tennyson: Lockslc / Hall. St. 74. 



8G CONTENTION— CONTENTMENT. 

CONTENTION — see Quarrels. 

Sons and brothers at a strife ! 
What is your quarrel? how began it first? 
— No quarrel, but a slight contention. 

784 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 2 
Where two raging fires meet together, 

They do consume the thing that feeds their fury : 
Though little fire grows great with little wind, 
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. 

785 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
CONTENTMENT. 

He that commends me to mine own content, 
/ Commends me to the thing I cannot get. 

786 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act i. Sc. 2. 
My crown is in my heart, not on my head ; 

Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones, 
Nor to be seen : my crown is called content ; 
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. 

787 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; 

But riches fineless is as poor as winter 
To him that ever fears he shall be poor. 

788 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
'Tis better to be lowly born, 

And range with humble livers in content, 
Thau to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 

789 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
The world goes up and the world goes clown, 

And the sunshine follows the rain ; 

And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown 

Can never come over again, 

Sweet wif e : 

No, never come over again. 

790 Cha?*les Kingsley : Dolcino to Margaret. 
Nought but God 

Can satisfy the soul. 

791 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Heaven. 
Let's live with that small pittance which we have ; 

Who covets more is evermore a slave. 

792 Herrick : Aph. Covetous Still Captives. 
Who with a little cannot be content, 

Endures an everlasting punishment. 

793 Herrick: Aph. Poverty and Biches. 
Man wants but little here below, 

Nor wants that little long. 

794 Goldsmith: Edwin and Angelina. St 8. 



CONTENTMENT — CONTB VERS T. 8 7 

Since every man who lives is born to die, 
And none can boast sincere felicity, 
With equal mind what happens let us bear, 
Nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. 
Like pilgrims, to th' appointed place we tend; 
The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. 

795 Dryden : Balamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2159. 

Content thyself to be obscurely good : 

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, 

The post of honor is a private station. 

796 Addison : Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

A voice of greeting from the wiud was sent, 

The mists enfolded me with soft white arms, 

The birds did sing to lap me in content, 

The rivers wove their charms, 

And every little daisy in the grass 

Did look up in my face, and smile to see me pass. 

797 B. H. Stoddard: Hymn to the Beautiful. 

This is the charm, by sages often told, 
Converting all it touches into gold : 
Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, 
Can rear a garden in the desert waste. 

798 Henry Kirke White : Clifton Grove. Line 139. 

Come, for the soft low sunlight calls, 

We lose the pleasant hours ; 

'Tis lovelier than these cottage walls — 

That seat among the flowers. 

And I will learn of thee a prayer, 

To Him who gave a home so fair, 

A lot so blest as ours — 

The God who made, for thee and me, 

This sweet lone isle amid the sea. 

799 William Cullen Bryant : Song of Bitcairn's Island. 

CONTROVERSY— see Discord. 
He could raise scruples dark and nice, 
And after solve 'em in a trice ; 
As if divinity had catch'd 
The itch on purpose to be scratch' cl. 

800 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 1G3. 

When civil dudgeon first grew high, 
kncl men fell out, they knew not why; 
When hard words, jealousies, and fears 
Set folk together by the ears, 
And made them fight, like mad or drunk, 
For dame Eeligion, as for punk. 

801 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 1. 



88 CONTBOVEBSY— COPYIST. 

Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain ; 
The creature's at his dirty work again. 

802 Pope : Epis. to Arbuihnot. Line 91. 

Great contest follows, and much learned dust 
Involves the combatants ; each claiming truth, 
And truth disclaiming both. 

803 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 161. 

CONVERSATION— see Character, Courtesy, Talking. 
Formed by thy converse, happily to steer 
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. 

801 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 379. 

A dearth of words a woman need not fear ; 

But 'tis a task indeed to learn — to hear : 

In that the skill of conversation lies ; 

That shows or makes you both polite and wise. 

805 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 57. 

But conversation, choose what theme we may, 
And chiefly when religion leads the way, 
Should flow, like w T aters after summer show'rs, 
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers. 

806 Cowper: Conversation. Line 703. 

Discourse may want an animated " No " 
To brush the surface, and to make it flow; 
But still remember, if you mean to please, 
To press your point with modesty and ease. 

807 Cowper : Conversation. Line 101. 

CONVERTS. 
More proselytes and converts use t' accrue 
To false persuasions than the right and true ; 
For error and mistake are infinite, 
But truth has but one Avay to be i' th' right. 

808 Butler: Misc. Thoughts. Line 113. 

COOKS. 

Herbs, and other country messes, 
Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses. 

809 Milton: E Allegro. Line 85. 
Heaven sends us good meat ; but the devil sends cooks. 

810 Garrick: Epigr. on Goldsmith's Betal 

COPYIST. 

A barren-spirited fellow : one that feeds 
On objects, arts, and imitations ; 
Which, out of use, and staled by other men, 
Begin his fashion. 

811 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act iv. Sc. 1. 



CO Q UE TTE — COBB UPTION. 89 

COQUETTE — see Flirtation. 
Or light or dark, or short or tall, 
She sets a springe to snare them all ; 
All's one to her — above her fan 
She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban. 

812 T. B. Aldrich : Coquette. 
From loveless youth to unrespected age 

No passion gratified, except her rage; 
So much the fury still outran the wit, 
The pleasure miss'd her. and the scandal hit. 

813 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 125. 
See how the world its veterans rewards ! 

A youth of frolics, an old age of cards; 
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end ; 
Young without lovers, old without a friend; 
A fop their passion, but their prize a sot; 
Alive, ridiculous ; and dead, forgot ! 

81f Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 243. 

"With every pleasing, every prudent part, 
Say, What can Chloe want? " — she wants a heart. 
She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought; 
But never, never reach'd one generous thought. 

815 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 159. 
Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike, 

And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. 

816 Pope : B. of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 13. 
Now Laura moves along the joyous crowd, 

Smiles in her eyes, and simpers in her lips; 
To some she whispers, others speaks aloud ; 
To some she curtsies, and to some she dips. 

817 Byron: Beppo. St. Go. 
Such js your cold coquette, who can't say " No," 

And won't say " Yes," and keeps you on and offing 

On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow ; 

Then sees your heart wreck'd with an inward scoffing : 

This works a world of sentimental woe, 

And sends new Werters yearly to their coffin. 

818 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xii. St. 63. 

CORRUPTION — see Bribes. 

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are 
Of an unmeasurable length : they spread 
Ev'rywhere ; and the dew that drops from thence 
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. 

819 Beaumont & Fletcher : Hon. Man's For. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, 
And ask no questions but the price of votes. 

820 Dr. Johnson: Vanity of H. W. Line 95. 



90 COBB UPTIOX— CO TTLE. 

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses 
The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed 
Not incorruptible of faith, not proof 
Against temptation. 

821 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 29G 

At length corruption, like a general flood, 
(So long by watchful ministers withstood,) 
Shall deluge all ; and avarice creeping on, 
Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun. 

822 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 135. 

Here let those reign, whom pensions can incite, 
To A'Ote a patriot black, a courtier white, 
Explain their country's dear-bought rights away, 
And plead for pirates in the face of day. 

823 Dr. Johnson: London. Line 51. 

This mournful truth is everywhere coufess'd, 
Slow rises worth by poverty clepress'd : 
But here more slow, where all are slaves to gold, 
Where looks are merchandise, and smiles are sold. 

824 Dr. Johnson: London. Line 166. 

Thieves at home must haug ; but he that puts 
Into his overgorged and bloated purse 
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. 

825 Couper: Task. Bk. i. Line 736. 

Whoso seeks an audit here 
Propitious, pays his tribute, game or flsh, 
Wild fowl or venison, and his errand speeds. 

826 Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 610. 

'Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures, 

And all are to be sold, if you consider 

Their passions, and are dext'rons ; some by features 

Are bought up, others by a warlike leader; 

Some by a place, as tend their years or natures; 

The most by ready cash — but all have prices, 

Erom crowns to kicks, according to their vices. 

827 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 27. 

When rogues like these, (a Sparrow cries,) 
To honors and employments rise, 
I court no favor, ask no place ; 
Erom such preferment is disgrace. 

828 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Eable 2. 

COTTLE. 

Amos Cottle ! Phoebus ! what a name ! 

829 Byron: Eng. Bards. Line 399. 



COUXSEL — COUXTBY LIFE. 91 

COUNSEL — see Advice. 

I pray thee, cease thy counsel, 
"Which falls into mine ears as profitless 
As water in a sieve. 

830 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Bosom up my counsel, 

You'll find it wholesome. 

831 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. 
And cast 

O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heav'nly hue 
Of words, like sunbeams, dazzling as they pass'd. 

832 Byron: Gh. Harold. Canto iii. St. 77 
COUNTRY — see Home. 

A wilderness of sweets ; for Nature here 
Wanton'd as in her prime, and play'd at will 
Her virgin fancies, pouring forth more sweet, 
Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. 

833 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 294 
God made the country, and man made the town ; 

What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts, 
That can alone make sweet the bitter draught 
That life holds out to all, should most abound, 
And least be threatened in the fields and groves? 

834 Cowper : Task. Bk. i. Line 749. 
Scenes must be beautiful which daily view'd, 

Please daily, and whose novelty survives 
Long knowledge and the scrutinv of years. 

835 Covper: *Task. Bk. i. Line 177. 
COUNTRY LIFE — see Retirement. 

Give me, indulgent gods ! with mind serene, 
And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene; 
No splendid poverty, no smiling care, 
No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur there. 

836 Young : Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 235. 
How various his employments, whom the world 

Calls idle, and who justly in return 
Esteems that busy world an idler too ! 
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, 
Delightful industry enjoyed at home, 
And Nature in her cultivated trim, 
Dressed to his taste, inviting him abroad. 

837 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 350. 
They love the country, and none else, who seek 

For their own sake its silence audits shade; 
Delights which who would leave, that has a hearc 
Susceptible of pity, or a mind 
Cultured and capable of sober thought? 

838 Covrper-.^Task. Bk. iii. Line 320. 



92 COUNTRY LIFE— COURAGE. 

Your love in a cottage is hungry, 

Your vine is a nest for flies — 

Your milkmaid shocks the graces, 

And simplicity talks of pies ! 

You lie down to your shady slumber, 

And wake with a bug in your ear ; 

And your damsel that walks in the morning 

Is shod like a mountaineer. 

839 N. P. Willis : Love in a Cottage. 

COURAGE— see Activity, Daring-, Fortitude, Valor, Ghosts. 
Screw your courage to the sticking-place, 
And we'll not fail. 

840 Shales. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. 
Ity how much unexpected, by so much 

We must awake endeavor for defence ; 
For courage mounteth with occasion. 

841 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
What man dare, I dare. 

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 
The arm'd Rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcanian 1 tiger. 
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
Shall never tremble. 

842 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
You must not think, 

That we are made of stuff so flat and dull, 

That we can let our beard be shook with danger, 

And think it pastime. 

843 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
I dare do all that may become a man : 

Who dares do more is none. 

844 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. 
He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer 

The worst that man can breathe ; 

And make his wrongs his outsides, 

To wear them like his raiment, carelessly ; 

And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, 

To bring it into clanger. 

845 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
It is held 

That valor is the chiefest virtue, and 
Most dignifies the haver : if it be, 
The man I speak of cannot in the world 
Be singly counterpois'd. 

846 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

x The original reading is "the Hyrcan," but Hyrc-anian, the correct term, 
has been suggested by critics, and is so used in Mer. of Venice, Act ii. Sc. 7, 
and Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2. 



COUBAGE. 93 

I do know Muellen valiant, 
And, toncli'd with clioler, hot as gunpowder, 
And quickly will return au injury. 

847 Shaks.: Henri/ V. Act iv. Sc. 7. 

A A*aliant man 
Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, 
But worthily, and by selected ways. 
He undertakes with reason, not by chance. 
His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, 
They're all unseason'd without it. 

848 Ben Jonson : New Inn. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly 
From its firm base as soon as I. 

849 Scott : Ladij of the Lake. Canto v. St. 10. 

What though the field be lost ! 
All is not lost ; the ungovernable will, 
And study of revenge, immortal hate, 
And courage never to submit or yield ; 
And what is else not to be overcome. 

850 Hilton : Bar. Lost. Bk. i. Line 105. 

No thought of flight, 
None of retreat, no unbecoming deed 
That argued fear ; each on himself relied, 
As only in his arm the moment lay 
Of victory. 

851 Milton: Bar. Lost. Bk. vi. Line 236. 

The brave man seeks not popular applause, 
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; 
Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, 
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. 

852 Dryden: Balamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2015. 

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend 

To mean devices for a sordid end. 

Courage — an independent spark from Heaven's bright 

throne, 
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. 
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, 
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. 

853 George Farquhar : Love and a Bottle. Dedication 

" You fool! I tell you no one means you harm." 
" So much the better," Juan said, " for them." 

854 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 82 

And tho' I hope not hence unscath'd to go, 
Who conquers me, shall find a stubborn foe. 

855 Byron : English Bards. Line 99& 



94 CO UBAQE — CO I'll T. 

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, 

Tor that were stupid and irrational ; 

But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, 

And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. 

856 Joanna Baillie : Basil. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Let us, then, be up aud doing, 

With a heart for any fate ; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labor and to wait. 

857 Longfellow: A Psalm of Life. St. 9. 
Oh fear not in a world like this, 

And thou shalt know erelong, 
Know how sublime a thing it is 
To suffer and be strong. 

858 Longfellow: Light of Stars. St. 9. 

COURT — COURTIERS — see Kings. 
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, 
Whom I have soon to weed and pluck away. 

859 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
I hardly yet have learn'd 

\ To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my knee. 

860 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Poor wretches that depend 

On greatness' favor, dream as I have done ; 
Wake, and find nothing. 

861 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act v. Sc. 4. 
Not a courtier, 

Although they wear their faces to the bent 
Of the king's looks, hath a heart that is not 
Glad at the thing they scowl at. 

862 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act i. Sc. 1. 
It is the curse of kings, to be attended 

By slaves, that take their humors for a warrant 
To break within the bloody house of life ; 
And, on the winking of authority, 
To understand a law. 

863 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

At the throng'd levee bends the venal tribe : 
With fair but faithless smiles each varnish'd o'er, 
Each smooth as those who mutually deceive, 
And for their falsehood each despising each. 

864. Thomson : Liberty. Pt. v. Line 190. 

To shake with laughter, ere the jest they hear, 
To pour, at will, the counterfeited tear : 
And, as their patron hints the cold or heat, 
To shake in dog-days, in December sweat. 

865 Br. Johnson : London. Line ISO. 



CO UE T— CO UB TSHIP. 95 

A mere court butterfly, 
That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. 
8G6 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act v. Sc. 1. 

COURTESY — see Politeness. 
Dissembling courtesy ! How fine this tyrant 
Can tickle where she wounds ! 

8G7 Shales. : Cymbeline. Act i. Sc. 2. 

How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, 
Is that flue sense which men call Courtesy ! 
Wholesome as air aud genial as the light, 
Welcome in every clime as breath of flowers, — 
It transmutes aliens into trusting friends, 
And gives its owner passport round the globe. 

868 James T. Fields: Courtesy. 

COURTSHIP — see Love. 
Bring, therefore, all the forces that you may, 
And lay incessant battery to her heart ; 
Plaiuts, prayers, vows, ruth, and sorrow, and dismay, — 
These engines can the proudest love convert. 

869 Spenser : Amoretti and Epithalamion. Sonnet xiv. 

Most fair, 
Will you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms, 
Such as will enter at a lady's ear, 
And plead his love-suit to her gentle heart? 

870 Shaks. : Henry V. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; 
Tho' ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. 
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 

871 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Gentle lady, 
When I did first impart my love to you, 
I freely told you all the wealth I had 
Ean in my veins, I was a gentleman ; 
And then I told you true. 

872 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

By your gracious patience, 
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver 
Of my whole course of love ; what drugs, what charms, 
What conjuration and what magic, 
(For such proceeding I am charg'd withal.) 
I won his daughter. 

873 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 

She is a woman, therefore may be won. 

874 Shaks. : Titus And. Act ii. Sc. 1 



96 COURTSHIP. 

Say, that upon the altar of her beauty 
You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart: 
Write till your ink be dry ; and with your tears 
Moist it again; and frame some feeling line, 
That may discover such integrity. 

875 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. i 
O, that I were a glove upon that hand, 

That I might touch that cheek ! 

876 Shaks. : Pom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2 
Women are angels, wooing : 

Tilings won are done ; joy's soul lies iu the doing : 
That she beloved knows naught, that knows not this — 
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. 

877 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Wooing thee, I found thee of more value 

Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags ; 
And 'tis the very riches of thyself 
That now I aim at. 

878 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act iii. Sc. 4, 
He that would win his dame must do 

As love does when he draws his bow ; 
With one hand thrust the lady from, 
And with the other pull her home. 

879 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 449 
She that with poetry is won, 

Is but a desk to write upon ; 

And what men say of her they mean 

No more than on the thing they lean. 

880 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 591 
Thev dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. 

881 Pope : Wife of Bath. Line 103 
Some are soon bagg'd, but some reject three dozen, 

'Tis fine to see them scattering refusals 

And wild dismay o'er every angry cousin 

(Friends of the party) who begin accusals, 

Such as— " Unless Miss (Blank) meant to have chosen 

Poor Frederick, why did she accord perusals 

To his billets? Why waltz with him? Why, I pray, 

Look yes last night, and yet saj r no to-day. 

Why? — why? — Besides, Fred, really was attach'd, 

'Twas not her fortune — he has enough without: 

The time will come she'll wish she had snatch'd 

So good an opportunity, no doubt : — 

But the old marchioness some plan has hatch'd 

As I'll tell Aurea at to-morrow's rout : 

And after all poor Frederick may do better — 

Pray did you see her answer to his letter? " 

882 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xii. Sis. 34, 35 t 



CO Ufi TSIIIP —CO)] r ABDICE. 9 5 

But yet she listen'd — 'tis enough — 
Who listens once will listen twice, 
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, 
And one refusal no rebuff. 

883 Byron : Mazeppa. St. 6. 
Like a lovely tree 

She grew to womanhood, and between whiles 
Eejected several suitors, just to learn 
How to accept a better in his turn. 

884 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 128. 
Not much he kens, I ween, of woman's breast, 

Who thinks that wanton thing is won by sighs. 

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes, 
But not too humbly, or she will despise 
Thee and thy suit though told in moving tropes ; 
Disguise even tenderness, if thou art wise. 

885 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 34. 
So, with decorum all things carried, 

Miss frown'd, and blush'd, and then was married. 

886 Goldsmith : Double Transformation. Line 19. 
COVETOUSNESS. 

When workmen strive to do better than well, 
They do confound their skill in covetousness. 

887 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
COWARDICE — see Battle, Fear. 

O, that a mighty man, of such descent, 
Of such possessions, and so high esteem, 
Should be infused with so foul a spirit ! 

888 Shahs. : Tarn, of the S. Induction. Sc. 2. 
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false 

As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins 
The beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars, 
Who, inward search'cl, have livers white as milk? 

889 Shales.: 31. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
A coward ; a most devout coward ; religious in it. 

890 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. f. 
Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 

The valiant never taste of death but once. 

891 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Milk-liver'd man, 

That bear' st a cheek for blows, a head for wrongs, 
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning 
Thine honor from thy suffering. 

892 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, 

Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard. 

893 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc. 1 



98 COWARDICE. 

Reproach and everlasting shame 
Sits mocking in our plumes. 

894 Shales. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

That which in mean man we entitle patience, 
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. 

895 Shaks. : Richard II. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for shame, 
And hang a calf s-skin on those recreant limbs. 

896 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward, 
Thou little valiant, great in villany ! 
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! 
Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight 
But when her humorous ladyship is by 
To teach thee safety. 

897 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

You souls of geese, 
That bear the shapes of men, how have you run 
From slaves that apes would beat ! Pluto and hell ! 
All hurt behind ; backs red, and faces pale 
With flight and agued fear ! Mencl and charge home, 
Or, by the fires of heaven, I'll leave the foe, 
And make my wars on you. 

898 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Cowards may fear to die ; but courage stout, 
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. 

899 Sir Walter Raleigh : On the Snuff of a Candle the 

Night before he died. 

Cowards are cruel, but the brave 
Love mercy and delight to save. 

900 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 1. 
Grac'd with a sword, but worthier of a fan. 

901 Cowper: Task. Bk. i. Line 771. 
The man that lays his hand upon a woman, 

Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch 
Whom 't were gross flattery to name a coward. 

902 John Tobin : Honeymoon. Act ii. Sc. 1< 

Men lie, who lack courage to tell truth — the cowards. 

903 Joaquin Miller : Ina. Sc. 3. 

The coward never on himself relies, 
But to an equal for assistance flies. 

904 Crabbe : Tale iii. Line 84. 
Go — let thy less than woman's hand 

Assume the distaff— not the brand. 

905 Bxjron : Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 4. 



COXCOMB— CBIME. 99 

COXCOMB — see Dandy. 

This is he 
That kiss'd away his hand in courtesy ; 
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, 
That when he plays at tables, chicles the dice 
In honorable terms ; nay, he can sing 
A mean most meanly ; and in ushering - , 
Mend him who can ; the ladies call him, sweet; 
The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet. 

906 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. 
I know him a notorious liar, 

Think him a great way fool, solely a coward; 
Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, 
That they take place, when virtue's steely bones 
Look bleak in the cold wind : withal, full oft we see 
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. 

907 Shales. : All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1. 
So by false learning is good sense defae'd; 

Some are bewilder'd in the maze of schools, 

And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools. 

908 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 25. 
CRAFTINESS. 

When the fox hath once got in his nose, 
He'll soon find means to make the bodv follow. 

909 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
That for ways that are dark 

And for tricks that are vain, 
The heathen Chinee is peculiar. 

910 Bret Harte : Plain Language from Truthful James. 
CREDIT. 

Blest paper credit ! last and best supply ! 
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly. 

911 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 39. 
CREED — see Religion. 

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side 
In the cause of mankind, if onr creeds agree? 
Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried, 
If he kneel not before the same altar with me? 

912 Moore : Come, Send Bound the Wine. 
CRIME — see Sin, Vice. 

Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. 

913 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, 

Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, 
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime. 

914 Baron : Ch. Harold. Canto i St. 3. 



loo en ISIS — CBITICS. 

CRISIS. 

Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward 
To what they were before. 
1)15 Shahs. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

CRITICISM — CRITICS. 
I am nothing if not critical. 

DIG Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1, 

Nature fits all her children with something to do, 
He who would write and can't write, can surely review; 
Can set up a small booth as critic and sell us his 
Petty conceit and his pettier jealousies. 

917 James Bussell Lowell: A Fable for Critics, 

No author ever spared a brother ; 
Wits are game-cocks to one another. 

918 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 10. 

Men of breeding, sometimes men of wit, 
T' avoid great errors must the less commit. 
Neglect the rules each verbal critic lays, 
For not to know some trifles is a praise. 

919 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 59. 

Critics I saw, that other names deface, 
And fix their own, with labor, in their place. 

920 Pope : Temple of Fame. Line 37. 
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 

Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. 

921 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 53. 

Numbers err in this — 
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss. 

922 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 5 

Ah ! ne'er so dire a thirst of glory boast, 
Nor in the critic let the man be lost. 

923 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 322. 

Some have at first for wits, then poets pass'd ; 
Turn'cl critics next, and prov'cl plain fools at last. 
Some neither can for wits nor critics pass, 
As heavy mules are neither horse nor ass. 

924 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 3G- 

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, 
And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry liue — 
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit, 
One glaring chaos, and wild heap of wit. 

925 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 89. 
Let such teach others, who themselves excel, 

And censure freely, who have written well. 

926 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 15, 



CBITICS. 101 

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer : 
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. 

927 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 201. 
A perfect judge will read each work of wit 

With the same spirit that its author writ ; 
Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find, 
Where nature moves and rapture warms the mind. 

928 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 33. 

Who shall dispute what the reviewers say? 
Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, 
In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. 

929 Churchill : Apology. Line 94. 

Not all on books their criticism waste : 
The genius of a dish some justly taste, 
And eat their way to fame. 

930 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iii. Line 69. 
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, 

And be each critic the Good-natured Man. 

931 Goldsmith : The Good-JSfatured Man. Epilogue. 
A man must serve his time to ev'ry trade, 

Save censure ; critics all are ready made : 
Take hackney 'd jokes from Miller, got by rote, 
With just enough of learning to misquote ; 
A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault, 
A turn for punning — call it Attic salt — 
Pear not to lie — 'twill seem a lucky hit ; 
Shrink not from blasphemy — 'twill pass for wit; 
Care not for feeling, pass your proper jest; — 
And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd. 

932 Byron : Eng. Bards. Line 63. 
A would-be satirist, a hired buffoon, 

A monthly scribbler of some low lampoon, 
Conclemn'cl to drudge the meanest of the mean, 
And furbish falsehoods for a magazine, 
Devotes to scandal his congenial mind ; 
Himself a living libel on mankind. 

933 Byron : Eng. Bards. Line 962. 
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; 

Believe a woman or an epitaph, 

Or any other thing that's false, before 

You trust in critics who themselves are sore, 

934 Byron : Eng. Bards. Line 77. 
Though good things answer many good intents, 
Crosses do still bring forth the best events. 

935 Herrick : Aph. Crosses. 



102 CnVELTY— CUPID. 

CRUELTY — see Suffering-. 
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, 
Uncapable of pity, void and empty 
From any dram of mercy. 

936 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Let me be cruel, not unnatural ; 

I will speak daggers to her, but use none; 
My tongue and so id in this be hypocrites. 

937 * Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 
I must be cruel, only to be kind ; 

Thus bad begins and worse remains behind. 

938 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
O, tiger's heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide! 

How could'st thou drain the life-blood of the child? 

939 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Neither bended knees, pure hands held up, 

Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, 
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire. 

940 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
I would not enter on my list of friends 

(Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, 
Yet wanting sensibility) the man, 
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 

941 Cowper: Task. Bk. vi. Line 562, 
CUPID — see Love. 

Cupid is a casuist, 

A mystic, and a cabalist, — 

Can your lurking thought surprise, 

And interpret your device. . . . 

Heralds high before him run ; 

He has ushers many a one ; 

He spreads his welcome where he goes, 

And touches all things with his rose. 

All things wait for and divine him, — 

How shall I dare to malign him? 

942 Emerson: Daem. and Celes. Love. Pt. i. 
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid: 

Regent of love rhymes, lord of folded arms, 
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, 
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. 

943 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 

And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. 

944 Shaks. : Mid. X. Bream. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Cupid is a knavish lad, 

Thus to make poor females mad. 

945 Shaks. : Mid. X. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



c rniosiTY— c ubses. i 03 

CURIOSITY. 

I loathe that low vice, curiosity. 
946 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 23. 

CURSES — see Oaths. 

O villains, vipers, daran'd without redemption; 

Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man ; 

Snakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sting my heart; 

Three Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas. 
917 Shaks. : Bichard II Act iii. Sc. 2. 

If he say so, may his pernicious soul 

Rot half a grain a dav ! — he lies to the heart. 

948 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 
You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames 

Into her scornful eyes ! — Infect her beauty. 
You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful sun, 
To fall and blister her pride ! 

949 Shells. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Whip me, ye devils, 

Blow me about in winds, roast me in sulphur, 
Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. 

950 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 
All the infections that the sun sucks up 

From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him 
By inch-meal a disease ! 
*951 Shaks. : Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Poison be their drink! 
Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest meat that they taste ! — 
Their softest touch as smart as lizards' stings ! 
Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss ! 
And boding screech-owls make the concert full! 

952 Shaks.: 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
All the contagion of the south light on you, 

You shames of Eome ! you herd of — Boils and plagues 
Plaster you o'er ; that you may be abhorr'd 
Farther than seen, and one infect another 
Against the wind a mile ! 

953 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Xow the red pestilence strike all trades in Eome. 

And occupations perish ! 

954 Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Let this pernicious hour 

Stand aye accursed in the calendar. 

955 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Beyond the infinite and boundless reach 

Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death, 
Art thou damn'd. 

950 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 3, 



104 CUBSES— CUSTOM. 

If ever he have child, abortive be it, 
Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, 
Whose ugly and unnatural aspect 
May fright the hopeful mother at the view ; 
And that be heir to his unhappiness. 

957 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 
If heaven have any grievous plague in store, 
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee, 

O, let them keep it, till thy sins be ripe, 

And then hurl down their indignation 

On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace. 

958 Shaks. : Packard III. Act i. Sc. 3. 
A plague o' both your houses ! 

959 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act lii. Sc. 1. 
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon ! 
Where got'st thou that goose look? 

960 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3. 
So let him stand, through ages yet unborn, 

Fix'd statue on the pedestal of scorn ! 

961 Byron : C. of Minerva. Line 206. 
May the grass wither from thy feet ; the woods 

Deny thee shelter! earth a home! the dust 

A grave ! the sun his light ! and heaven her God ! 

962 Byron : Cain. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Down to the dust ! and as thou rott'st away, 

Even worms shall perish on thy poisonous clay. 

963 Byron : A Sketch. 
CUSTOM — see Habit. 

How use cloth breed a habit in a man ! 

964 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 
New customs, 

Though they be never so ridiculous, 

Nay, let them be unmanlv. yet are follow'd. 

965 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 3. 
It is a custom, 

More honor'd in the breach than the observance. 

966 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Custom calls me to't ; — 

What custom wills, in all things should we do't? 

967 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
To follow foolish precedents, and wink 

With both our eyes, is easier than to think. 

968 Coicper : Tirocinium. Line 255. 
The slaves of custom and established mode, 

With pack-horse constancy, we keep the road 
Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, 
True to the jingling of our leader's bells. 

969 Cowper: Tirocinium. Line 251. 



C US T03I— BAXCIXG. 105 

Such dupes are meu to custom, aud so prone 
To rev'reuce what is ancient, and can plead 
A course of long observance for its use, 
That even servitude, the worst of ills, 
Because deliver'd clown from sire to son, 
Is kept and guarded as a sacred thiug. 

970 Cowper: Task. Bk. v. Line 298. 
Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, 

In all things ruled — mind, body, and estate ; 

In pain, in sickness, we for cure apply 

To them we know not, and we know not why. 

971 Crabbe: The Gentleman Farmer. 
CYNIC. 

I do not know the man I should avoid 

So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; 

He is a great observer, and he looks 

Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, 

As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; 

Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort, 

As if be mocked himself and scorned his spirit 

That could be moved to smile at anything. 

972 Shahs. : Jul. Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2. 
CYPRESS. 

Dark tree ! still sad when others' grief is fled, 
The only constant mourner o'er the dead. 

973 Byron : Giaour. Line 286. 



DAINTIES. 

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; 
It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. 

974 Goldsmith : Haunch of Venison. Line 33. 
DAISY. 

The daisy's cheek is tipp'd with a blush, 
She is of such low degree. 

975 Hood: Flowers. 
DANCERS, DANCING — .see Ball, Feet, Soiree. 

When you do dance. I wish you 
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that. 

976 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Alike all ages : dames of ancient days 

Have led their children through the mirthful maze ; 
And the gay grandsire, skill' cf in gestic lore, 
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. 

977 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 251, 



106 DANCING. 

Her feet beneath her petticoat, 
Like little mice, stole in and out, 
As if they feared the light; 
But, oh ! she dances such a way ! 
No sun upon an Easter-day 
Is half so fine a sight. 

978 Suckling: On a Wedding. 

Come and trip it as you go 
On the light fantastic toe. 
970 Milton: H Allegro. Line 33. 

And then he danced ; — all foreigners excel 

The serious Angles in the eloquence 

Of pantomime; — he danced, I say, right well 

With emphasis, and also with good sense — 

A thing in footing indispensable : 

He danced without theatrical pretence, 

Not like a ballet-master in the Aaii 

Of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman. 

980 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 38. 

A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when 
Music arose with its voluptuous swell, 
Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, 
And all went merry as a marriage bell. 

981 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 2L 

Imperial Waltz ! imported from the Rhine 
(Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine) , 
Long be thine import from all duty free, 
And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee : 
In some few qualities alike — for hock 
Improves our cellar — thou our living stock. 
The head to hock belongs — thy subtler art 
Intoxicates alone the heedless heart : 
Through the full veins thy gentler poison swims, 
And wakes to wantonness the willing limbs. 

982 Byron : The Waltz. Line 29 

Endearing Waltz ! to thy more melting tune 

Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon. 

Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance, forego 

Your future claims to each fantastic toe ! 

Waltz — Waltz alone — both legs and arms demands, 

Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands. 

983 Byron : The Waltz. Line 100. 

On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined ! 

No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet, 

To chase the glowing hours with flying feet. 

984 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 22. 



DANCIXG — DAXGEB. 107 

Such a dancer ! 
Where men have souls or bodies she must answer. 

985 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 84. 
The music, and the banquet, and the wine, — 

The garlands, the rose-odors, and the flowers, — 
The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments, — 
The white arms, and the raven hair, — the braids 
And bracelets — swan-like bosoms — the thin robes. 

986 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
The long carousal shakes th' illumined hall; 

Well speeds alike the banquet and the ball : 

And the gay dance of bounding Beauty's train 

Links grace and harmouy in happiest chain. 

Blest are the early hearts and gentle hands, 

That mingle there in well-according bands ; 

It is a sight the careful brow might smooth, 

And make age smile, and dream itself to youth, 

And youth forget such hour was passed on earth, — 

So springs th' exultiug bosom to that mirth. 

987 Byron : Lara. Canto i. St. 20 
The rout is Folly's circle, which she draws 

With magic wancl. So potent is the spell, 
That none decoy'd into that fatal ring, 
Unless by Heaven's peculiar grace, escape. 
There we grow early gra3 r , but never wise ; 
There form connexions, but acquire no friend; 
Solicit pleasure, hopeless of success ; 
Waste youth in occupations only fit 
For second childhood, and devote old age 
To sports which only childhood could excuse. 

988 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 629. 
And beautiful maidens moved down in the dance, 

With the magic of motion and sunshine of glance ; 
And white arms wreathed lightly, and tresses fell free 
As the plumage of birds in some tropical tree. 

989 Whittier: Cities of the Plain. St. 4. 
Dear creature ! you'd swear, 

When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, 
That her steps are of light, that her home is the air, 
And she only par complaisance touches the ground. 

990 Moore : Fudge Family. Letter v. 
DANGER— see Caution, Pear. 

He that stands upon a slippery place, 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

991 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 4 
Though I am not splenetive and rash, 

Yet have I something in me dangerous. 

992 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. 



1 08 DANG Eli — DA YBB E. 1 K. 

Thou wretched, rash, intruding fool, farewell ! 
I took thee for thy betters ; take thy fortune; 
Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger. 

993 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
They that stand high have many blasts to shake them, 
And, if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces. 

994 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3. 
We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it, 

She'll close, and be herself! whilst our poor malice 
Remains in danger of her former tooth. 

995 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 

996 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

DANDY — see Coxcomb. 

He was perfumed like a milliner ; 

And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held 

A pouncet-box, which ever and anon 

He gave his nose. 

997 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 3 

DARING. 

I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more is none. 

998 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. 
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, 

He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. 

999 Scott: Talisman. Ch. xxvi. 

DARKNESS. 
At one stride comes the dark. 

1000 Coleridge : Ancient Mariner. Pt. iii. St. 13. 
Lo ! clarkuess bends down like a mother of grief 

On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair 
It has mantled a world. 

1001 Joaquin Miller : From Sea to Sea. St. 4. 
Weep, for the light is dead. 

1002 Schiller: Resignation. 

D AWN — DAYBREAK — see Morning-, Sunrise, Twilight. 
The morning steals upon the night. 
Melting the darkness. 

1003 Shaks. : Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. 
But all so soon as the all-cheering sun 

Should in the farthest east begin to draw 
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed. 

1004 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 1. 
The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night. 
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light. 

1005 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 3. 



DA YBBEAK— DA Y. 109 

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. 

1006 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 5 
Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, 

And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger ; 

At whose approach, ghosts, wand'ring here and there, 

Troop home to church-yards. 

1007 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
The eastern gate, all fiery red, 

Opening on Neptune, with fair blessed beams, 
Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams. 

1008 Shaks. : Mid. A 7 : Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
The day begins to break, and night is fled, 

Whose pitchv mantle over-veil'd the earth. 

1009 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 

1010 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Look, the gentle day, 

Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about 
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. 

1011 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 3. 
The silent hours steal on, 

And flaky darkness breaks within the east. 

1012 ' Shaks. : Bichard III. Act v. Sc. 3. 
The quiet night, now dappling, 'gan to wane, 

Dividing darkness from the dawning main. 

1013 Byron : Island. Canto i. St. 1. 
DAY. 

One day, with life and heart, 
Is more than time enough to find a world. 

1014 James Bussell Lowell : Columbus. 
There's one sun more strung on my bead of cfays. 

1015 Henry Vaughan : Bules and Lessons. St. 20. 
Day is the Child of Time, 

And Day must cease to be : 
But Night is without a sire, 
And cannot expire, 
One with Eternity. 

1016 B. H Stoddard : Day and Night 
O summer day beside the joyous sea ! 

O summer day so wonderful and white, 
So full of gladness and so full of pain ! 
Forever and forever shalt thou be 
To some the gravestone of a dead delight, 
To some the landmark of a new domain. 

1017 Longfellow : Summer Day by the Sea. 



110 DAY— DEATH. 

O gift of God ! perfect day : 
Whereon shall no man work, but play ; 
Whereon it is enough for me, 
Not to be doing, but to be ! 

1018 Longfellow : Day of Sunshine. St. 1. 
What is a day to an immortal soul ! 

A breath, no more. 

1019 T. B. Aldrich : The Metempsychosis. 

DEATH — see Grave, Mourning-. 

All that tread 
The globe are but a handful to the tribes 
That slumber in its bosom. 

1020 Bryant: Thanatopsis. 
When beggars die, there are no comets seen; 

The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. 

1021 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 

The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, 

It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; 

Seeing that death, a necessary end, 

Will come, when it will come. 

1022 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? 

Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, 
Shrunk to this little measure? 

1023 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, 

That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment 
Can lay on nature, is a paradise 
To what we fear of death. 

1024 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Ay, but to clie. and go we know not where ; 

To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot : 
This sensible warm motion to become 
A kneaded clod; aud the delighted spirit 
To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 
In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; 
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, 
And blown with restless violence round about 
The pendant world. 

1025 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iii. Sc. L 
The sense of death is most in apprehension ; 

And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. 

1026 Shaks. : M. for 3L Act iii. Sc. 1. 



DEATH. . HI 

That life is better life, past fearing- death, 
Than that which lives to fear. 

1027 Shales. : 31. for M. Act v. Sc. 1. 
All that lives must die, 

Passing- through nature to eternity. 

1028 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
To die — to sleep — 

No more; and, by a sleep, to say we end 
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to ; — ■ 'tis a consummation 
Devoutly to be wish'd. 

1029- Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

To die ! to sleep : 
To sleep ! perchance, to dream ; — ay, there's the rub ; 
Tor in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause : there's the respect, 
That makes calamity of so long life. 

1030 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
The dread of something after death 

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn 
No traveller returns, puzzles the will, 
And makes ns rather bear those ills we have, 
Than fly to others that we know not of. 

1031 * Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Lay her i' the earth ; 
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh 
May violets spring ! 

1032 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Imperial Csesar, dead and turn'd to clay, 

Might stop a hole, to keep the wind away : 

! that that earth, which kept the world in awe, 
Should patch a wall, t' expel the Winter's flaw ! 

1033 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The sands are number'd, that make up my life ; 

Here must I stay, and here my life must end. 

1034 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI Act i. Sc. 1. 
Kings and mightiest potentates must die, 

For that's the end of human misery. 

1035 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, 

Where death's approach is seen so terrible. 

1036 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI Act iii. Sc. 3. 
What ! old acquaintance ! could not all this flesh 

Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell ! 

1 could have better spar'd a better man. 

1037 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV Act v. Sc. 4. 



112 DEATH. 

Nothing in his life 
Became him like the leaving it ; he died 
As one that had been studied in his death, 
To throw away the dearest thing he owed, 
As 'twere a careless trifle. 

1038 Shahs. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Had I as many sous as I have hairs, 

I would not wish them to a fairer death. 

1039 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 7 
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. 

1040 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
How oft, when men are at the point of death, 

Have they been merry ! which their keepers call 
A lightning before death. 

1041 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act v. Sc. 3. 
He that dies this year is quit for the next. 

1042 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
They say the tongues of d3*ing men 

Enforce attention, like deep harmony : 

Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain, 

For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. 

1043 Shaks. : Richard, II. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

He that no more may say is listen'd more 

Than they whom youth and ease have taught to glose; 

More are men's ends mark'd than their lives before : 

The setting sun and music at the close, 

(As the last taste of sweets is sweetest) last, 

Writ in remembrance more than things Jong past. 

1044 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act ii Sc. 1- 

Though death be poor, it ends a morta) woe. 

1045 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act ii. Sc. i 

Tired, with all these, for restful death I cry; — 

As, to behold desert a beggar born, 

And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, 

And purest faith unhappily forsworn, 

And gilded honor shamefully misplaced, 

And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted, 

And right perfection wrongfully disgraced, 

And strength by limping sway disabled, 

And art made tongue-tied by authority, 

And folly (doctor-like) controlling skill, 

And simple truth miscall' d simplicity, 

And captive good attending captain ill : 

Tired with all these, from these would I be gone ; 

Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. 

104P Shaks. : Sonnet lxvi 



DEATH. 113 

0, sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her. 

1047 Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
He that hath a will to die by himself, 

Fears it uot from auother. 

1048 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 2. 
There is no death — the thing that we call death 

Is but auother, sadder uame for life, 
Which is itself an insufficient name, 
Faint recoguition of that unknown Life — 
That Power whose shadow is the Universe. 

1049 B. H Stoddard: Hymn to the Sea. 
Behind her death, 

Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet 
On his pale horse. 

1050 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 588. 
Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, 
Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, 
Abominable, unutterable, and worse 

Than fables yet have feign'd, or fear conceived, 
Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire. 

1051 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 624. 
'Tis but to die, 

'Tis but to venture on that common hazard, 
Which many a time in battle I have run ; 
'Tis but to do, what, at that very moment, 
In mauy nations of the peopled earth, 
A thousand and a thousaud shall do with me. 

1052 Bowe: Jane Shore. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Death is the privilege of human nature; 

And life without it were uot worth our takiug. 
Thither the poor, the pris'ner, and the mourner 
Ply for relief, and lay their burdens clown. 

1053 Boice : Fair Penitent. Act v. Sc. L 
Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! 

Come to the mother's, when she feels, 
Por the first time, her first-born's breath 
Come when the blessed seals 
That close the pestilence are broke, 
And crowded cities wail its stroke; 
Come in consumption's ghastly form, 
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm; 
Come when the heart beats high aud warm, 
With banquet song, and dauce, and wine ; 
And thou art terrible, — the tear. 
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 
And all we know, or dream, or fear 
Of agony are thiue. 

1054 * Fitz-Greene Halleck : JIareo Bozzaris. 



114 DEATH. 

Death upon his face 
Is rather shine than shade, 
A tender shine by looks beloved made. 

1055 Mrs. Browning : The Seraphim. Pt. il 

Thus o'er the dying lamp th' unsteady flame, 
Hangs quivering on the point, leaps off by fits 
And falls again, as loth to quit its hold. 

1056 Addison : Cato. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
The prince, who kept the world in awe, 

The judge, whose dictate fix'cl the law, 
The rich, the poor, the great, the small, 
Are levell'd : death confounds 'em all. 

1057 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Table 16. 

There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high 
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. 

1058 Tickell: On the Death of Addison. Line 81. 
The hour conceal'd, and so remote the fear, 

Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. 

1059 Pope: EsSay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 75. 

O Death, all eloquent ! you only prove 

What dust we dote on, when 'tis man we love. 

1060 Tope : Eloisa to A. Line 335. 

How loved, how honored once, avails thee not ; 
To whom related, or by whom begot ; 
A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! 

1061 Pope : Elegy to Mem. of Unfortunate Lady. Line 71. 

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, 
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, 
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn' cl, 
By strangers honor'd, and by strangers mourn'd. 

1062 Pope : Elegy to Mem. of Unfortunate Lady. Line 51. 
But thousands die without or this or that, 

Die, and endow a college or a cat. 

1063 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 95. 
The world recedes ; it disappears ! 

Heav'n opens on my eyes ! my ears 

With sounds seraphic ring : 

Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! 

1064 Pope : Dying Christian to His Soul. 
Death is the gate of life. 

1065 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Colonnade and Lawn. 
The chamber where the good man meets his fate 

Is privileged beyond the common walk 

Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. 

1066 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 633 



DEATH. 115 

Man makes a death, which nature never made. 

10G7 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 15. 

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, aud the grave, 
The deep, damp vault, the darkness, and the worm. 
These are the bugbears of a winter's eve, 
The terrors of the living, not the dead. 

1068 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 10. 
Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay ; 

And if in death still lovely, lovelier there ; 
Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love. 

1069 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 104. 
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 

1070 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 1011. 
Death is the crown of life : 

Were death denied, poor man would live in vain ; 
Were death denied, to live would not be life ; 
Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die. 

1071 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 526. 
Death wounds to cure : we fall ; we rise ; we reign ! 
Spring from our fetters ; fasten in the skies ; 

Where blooming Eden withers in our sight : 
Death gives us more than was in Eclen lost. 
This king of terrors is the prince of peace. 

1072 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 530. 
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, 

She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. 

1073 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 600. 
A death-bed's the detector of the heart : 

Here tired dissimulation drops her mask, 
Through life's grimace, that mistress of the scene, 
Here real and apparent are the same. 

1074 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 641. 
Can storied urn, or animated bust, 

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 
Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust, 
Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death? 

1075 Gray : Elegy. St. 10. 
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 

Await alike the inevitable hour, 

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 

1076 Gray: Elegy. St. 9. 
How shocking must thy summons be, O death ! 

To him that is at ease in his possessions ; 
Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, 
Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come ! 

1077 Blair : Grave. Line 350. 



116 DEATH 

All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades 
Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind ; 
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; 
The man we celebrate must find a tomb, 
And we that worship him, ignoble graves. 

1078 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 201. 
Yet 'twill only be a sleep : 

When, with songs and dewy light, 
Morning blossoms out of Night, 
She will open her blue eyes 
'Neath the palms of Paradise 
While we foolish ones shall weep. 

1079 Edward Bowland Sill : Sleeping. 
Death, so call'd, is a thing which makes men weep, 

And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep. 

1080 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 3. 
Death shuns the wretch who fain the blow would meet. 

1081 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 197. 
"Whom the gods love die young," was said of yore, 
And many deaths do they escape by this : 

The death of friends, and that which slays even more, 
The death of friendship, love, youth, all that is, 
Except mere breath. 

1082 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 12. 
Death is but what the haughty brave, 

The weak must bear, the wretch must crave. 

1083 Byron : Giaour. Line 1032. 
What shall he be ere night? Perchance a thing 

O'er which the raven flaps her funeral wing. 

1084 Byron : Corsair. Canto ii. St. 16. 
I live, 

But live to die : and living, see no thing 

To make death hateful, save an innate clinging, 

A loathsome and yet all invincible 

Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I 

Despise myself, yet cannot overcome — 

And so I live. 

1085 Byron : Cain. Act i. Sc. 1. 
And thou art dead, as young and fair 

As aught of mortal birth ; 

And form so soft, and charms so rare, 

Too soon return'd to earth ! 

Though earth received them in her bed, 

And o'er the spot the crowd may tread 

In carelessness or mirth, 

There is an eye which could not brook 

A moment on that grave to look. 

1086 Byron : And Thou art Dead, etc. 



DEATH. 117 

Oh, God ! it is a fearful thing 
To see the human soul take Aving 
In any shape, in any mood. 

1087 Byron : Prisoner of Chillon. St. 8. 
Thy day without a cloud hath pass'd, 

And thou wert lovely to the last; 
Extinguished, not decay'd ! 
As stars that shoot along the sky 
Shine brightest as they fall from high. 

1088 Byron : And Tliou art Dead, etc. 
Death is Life's high meed. 

1089 Keats : On Fame. Sonnet xii. 
O Death, what art thou? a Lawgiver that never altereth, 
Fixing the consummating seal, whereby the deeds of life 

become established ; 
O Death, what art thou? a stern and silent usher, 
Leading to the judgment for Eternity, after the trial scene 

of Time; 
O Death, what art thou? an husbandman that reapeth 

always, 
Out of season, as in season, with the sickle in his hand. 

1090 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Death- 
Two hands upon the breast, 

And labor's clone ; 

Two pale feet crossed in rest, — 

The race is won ; 

Two eyes with coin-weights shut 

And all tears cease ; 

Two lips where grief is mute, 

Anger at peace. 

1091 Dinah Muloek Craik: Now and Afterwards 
To every man upon this earth 

Death cometh soon or late. 

1092 Macaulay : Lays Anc. Borne. Horatius. xxvii. 
Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home ; 

Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine. 

1093 Emerson : Good-Bye. 
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, 

Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 

1094 Scott : Lady of the Lake. Canto i. St. 31, 

Since, howe'er protracted, death will come, 
AVhy fondly study, with ingenious pains, 
To put it off ? To breathe a little longer 
Is to defer our fate, but not to shun it. 
Small gain ! which wisdom with incliff 'rent eye 
Beholds. 

"1095 Hannah More : David and Goliath. Pt. iv 



118 DEATH 

Leaves have their times to fall, 

And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 

And stars to set — but all, 

Thou hast all seasons for thine own, death. 

109G Mrs. Hemans: Hour of Death. 

I think poor beggars court St. Giles, 
Rich beggars court St. Stephen ; 
And Death looks down with nods and smiles, 
And makes the odds all even : 
I think some die upon the field, 
And some upon the billow, 
And some are laid beneath a shield, 
And some beneath a willow. 

1097 Praed: Brazen Head. St. 12. 

Death! to the happy thou art terrible, 
But how the wretched love to think of thee, 
O thou true comforter, the friend of all 
Who have no friend beside. 

1098 Southey: Joan of Arc. Bk. i. Line 32G. 

Our very hopes belied our fears, 
Our fears our hopes belied ; 
We thought her dying when she slept, 
And sleeping when she died. 

1099 Hood: The Death-Bed, 

We watched her breathing through the night, 

Her breathing soft and low, 

As in her breast the wave of life 

Kept heaving to and fro. 

1100 Hood: TJie Death-Bed. 
Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb 

In life's happy morning hath hid from our eyes, 

Ere sin threw a blight o'er the spirit's young bloom, 

Or earth had profaned what was born for the skies. 

Death chill'd the fair fountain ere sorrow had stain'd it, 

'Twas frozen in all the pure light of its course, 

And but sleeps till the sunshine of heaven lias uuchahTd it, 

To water that Eden where first was its source. 

1101 Moore: Weep not for Those. 
Death is only kind to mortals. 

1102 Schiller: Complaint of Ceres. St, 4. 

Friend after friend departs ; 
Who hath not lost a friend? 
There is no union here of hearts 
That finds not here an end; 
Were this frail world our only rest, 
Living or dying, none were blest. 

1103 James Montgomery : Friends. 



DEATH— DEBT. 119 

And, as she looked around, she saw how Death, the con- 
soler, 
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. 
1104- Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. v. Line 88. 

There is a reaper, whose name is Death, 
And with his sickle keen, 
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, 
And the flowers that grow between. 

1105 Longfellow : Beaper and the Flowers, 
There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; 

This life of mortal breath 

Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 

Whose portal we call Death. 

1106 Longfellow: Besignation. St. £ 

'Tis the cessation of our breath. 

Silent and motionless we lie ; 

And no one knoweth more than this. 

1107 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. ii 

There is no confessor like unto Death ! 

Thou canst not see him, but he is near ; 

Thou neeclest not whisper above thy breath, 

And he will hear ; 

He will answer the questions, 

The vague surmises and suggestions, 

That fill thy soul with doubt and fear ! 

1108 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. v. 
The young may die, but the old must. , 

1109 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv. 

Death is better than disease. 

1110 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. i. 

O, what haclst thou to do with cruel Death, 

Who wast so full of life, or Death with thee, 

That thou shouldst die before thou hadst grown old ! 

1111 Longfellow: Three Friends of Mine. Sonnet ii. 

Death is the dullness that precedes the dawn ; 
We shudder for a moment, theu awake 
In the broad sunshine of the other life. 

1112 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 6. 

Death is delightful. Death is da vn, 
The waking from a weary night 
Of fevers unto truth and light. 

1113 Joaquin Miller: Even So. 

DEBT. 
You say, you nothing owe ; and so I say : 
He only owes, who something hath to pay. 

1114 Martial: {Hay), ii. a 



1 20 DEBT— DECEIT. 

He that dies, pays all debts. 

1115 Shaks. : Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
In my young days they lent me cash that way. 

Which I found very troublesome to pay. 

1116 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. Go. 
Oh, how you wrong our friendship, valiant youth. 

With friends there is not such a word as debt : 
Where amity is ty'd with band of truth, 
All benefits are there in common set. 

1117 Lady Carew: Mariam. 
You are as a candle, the better part burnt out. 

1118 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act i. Sc. 2. 
DECAY. 

Before decay's effacing fingers 

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. 

1119 Byron: Giaour. Line G8. 
All that's bright must fade, — 

The brightest still the fleetest ; 
All that's sweet was made 
But to be lost when sweetest. 

1120 Moore: National Airs. 
DECEIT — see Hypocrisy. 

O that deceit should dwell 
Iu such a gorgeous palace ! 

1121 Shaks.: Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Look to her, Moor ; if thou hast eyes to see : 

She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee. 

1122 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3- 
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 

, An evil soul producing holy witness, 
I Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; 

A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; 

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 

1123 Shaks. : 31. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, 

Men were deceivers ever ; 

One foot in sea, and one on shore ; 

To one thing constant never. 

1124 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 3. Song. 
And be these juggling fiends no more believ'cl, 

That palter with us in a double sense ; 
That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it to our hope. 

1125 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 7. 
Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, 

And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice. 

1126 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



DECEIT— DECISION. 1 2 1 

Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep ; 

And in his simple show he harbors treason. 

The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb. 

1127 Shales. : 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Mother, for love of grace, 

Lay not that flattering unction to 3 T our soul, 
That not your trespass but my madness speaks. 

1128 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii Sc. 4. 
He seem'd 

For dignity compos'd and high exploit : 
But all was false and hollow. 

1129 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 110. 
His tongue 

Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear 
The better reason. 

1130 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 112. 
'Tis not my talent to conceal my thoughts, 

Or carry smiles aud sunshine in my face, 
When disconteut sits heavy at my heart. 

1131 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world 

But those who slide along the grassy sod, 
And sting the luckless foot that presses them? 
There are who in the path of social life 
Do bask their spotted skins in fortune's sun, 
And sting the soul. 

1132 Joanna Baillie : Be Monfort. Act i. Sc. 2. 
0, what a tangled web we weave, 

When first we practise to deceive. 

1133 Scott: Marmion. Canto vi. St. 17. 

DECEMBER. 

Only the sea intoning, 
Only the wainscot-mouse, 
Only the wild wind moaning 
Over the lonely house. 

1134 T. B. Aldrich : Poems. December, 1863. 

DECISION — see Dispatch, Promptitude. 

If it were clone, when 'tis clone, then 'twere well 
It were done quickly. 

1135 Shaks. : JIacoeth. Act i. Sc. 7, 
There is a tide in the affairs of men, 

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; 

Omitted, all the voyage of their life 

Is bound in shallows and in miseries ; 

And we must take the current when it serves, 

Or lose our ventures. 

1136 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3 



122 DECIS1 X— DEEDS. 

Be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, 
That palter with us in a double sense ; 
That keep the word of promise to our ear, 
And break it to our hope. 

1137 Shahs.: Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 7. 
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it 

Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this miuute. 

1138 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 19. 
Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her 

wretched crust, 
Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 'tis prosperous to 

be just ; 
Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward 

stands aside, 
Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified. 

1139 James Bussell Lowell : Present Crisis. 
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to 

decide, 
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil 

side; 
Some great cause, God's new Messiah offering each the 

bloom or blight, 
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the 

right ; 
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and 

that light. 

1140 James Bussell Lowell : Present Crisis. 
Decide not rashly. The decision made 

Can never be recalled. The Gods implore not, 
Plead not, solicit not; they only offer 
Choice and occasion, which once being passed 
Eeturn no more. Dost thou accept the gift? 

1141 Longfellow : Masque of Pandora. Pt. in. 
The keen spirit 

Seizes the prompt occasion — makes the thought 
Start into instant action, and at once' 
Plans and performs, resolves and executes ! 

1142 Hannah More: Daniel. Pt. i. 
DEEDS. 

We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 

1143 Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Town. 
Oh ! 'tis easy 

To beget great deeds ; but in the rearing of them — 
The threading in cold blood each mean detail, 
And furze brake of half-pertinent circumstance — 
There lies the self-denial. 

1144 Charles Kingslcy : Saint's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



DEEDS — DEFIAXCE. \ 23 

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds. 
And, though a late, a sure reward succeeds. 

1145 Congreve: Mourning Bride. Act v. Sc 12. 

Foul deeds will rise, 
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. 

1146 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 

DEFEAT. 

Such a numerous host 
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep, 
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, 
Confusion worse confounded. 

1147 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 993. 

DEFENCE. 
In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh 
The enemy more mighty than he seems; 
So the proportions of defence are fill'd ; 
Which of a weak and niggardly projection 
Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat with scanting 
A little cloth. 

1148 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
What boots it at one gate to make defence, 

And at another to let in the foe? 

1149 Milton: Samson Agonistes. Line 560. 
DEFIANCE. 

I do defy him, and I spit at him ; 
Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain : 
Which to maintain, I would allow him odds ; 
And meet him, were I tied to run a-foot, 
Even to the frozen ridges of the Alps. 

1150 Shaks. : Eichard II. Act i. Sc. 1, 
I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, 

And with the other fling it at thy face, 
Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee. 

1151 Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 1. 
If thou deny'st it, twenty times thou liest ; 

And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, 
Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. 

1152 Shaks. : Eichard II. Act iv. Sc. L 
Who sets me else? by heaven I'll throw at all; 

I have a thousand spirits in one breast. 
To answer twenty thousand such as you. 

1153 Shaks. : Eichard II. Act iv. Sc. 1 
Thou may'st hold a serpent by the tongue, 

A chafed lion by the mortal paw, 

A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, 

Than keep in peace that hand which thou dost hold. 

1154 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 1 



124 DEFIANCE — DELAY. 

-Must I give way and room to your rash cliolcr? 
Shall I be frighted, when a madman stares? 

1155 Skaks. : Jul. Caesar. Aet iv. Sc. 3. 
If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot, 

Or teach thy hast}- spleen to do me shame, 

I'll strike thee dead. Put up thy sword betime, 

Or I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, 

That you shall think the devil has come from hell. 

1156 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Come one, come all — this rock shall fly 

Prom its firm base as soon as I. 

1157 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto v. St. 10. 

DEITY— see God, Providence. 

Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! 
O teach me what is good ! teach me thyself ! 
Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, 
From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul 
With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; 
Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! 

1158 Thomson: Seasons. Winter. Line 217. 

Let no presuming impious railer tax 
Creative Wisdom, as if aught was form'd 
In vain, or not for admirable ends. 
Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce 
His works unwise, of which the smallest part 
Exceeds the narrow vision of his mind? 

1159 Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 318. 
Hail, source of being ! universal soul 

Of heaven and earth ! essential presence, hail ! 
To Thee I bend the knee ; to Thee my thoughts 
Continual, climb ; who, with a master hand, 
Hast the great whole into perfection touch'd. 

1160 Thomson: Seasons. Spring. Line 556. 
A Deity belieA'ed. is joy begun; 

A Deity adored, is joy advanced; 
A Deity beloved, is joy matured. 
Each branch of piety delight inspires. 

1161 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 720. 
A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms 

Terrestrial, in the vast and the minute, 
The unambiguous footsteps of the God 
Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, 
And wheels his throne upon the rolling worlds. 

1162 Cowper: Task. Bk. v. Line 809 

DELAY — see Decision, Procrastination, Time. 
Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beirararv. 

1163 Shaks. : Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



DELA Y— DENMABK. \ 25 

Then do we sin against our own estate, 
When we may profit meet, and come too late. . . . 
When the day serves before black-cornered night, 
Find what thou want'st by free and offered light. 

1164 Shales.: Timon of A. Act v. Sc. 1. 

my good lord, that comfort comes too late ; 
'Tis like a pardon after execution : 
That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd me ; 
But now I am past all comfort here but prayers. 

1165 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Omission to do what is necessary 

Seals a commission to a blank of danger ; 
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints 
Even then when we sit idly in the sun. 

1166 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

That we would do, 
We should do when we would; for this " would " changes, 
And hath abatements and delays as many 
As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents ; 
And then this " should " is like a spendthrift sigh, 
That hurts by easing. 

1167 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7, 
Be wise to-day ; 'tis madness to defer ; 

Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; 
Thus on, till wisdom is push'cl out of life. 

1168 Young: Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 390. 

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool, 
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; 
At fifty, chides his infamous delay, 
Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve, 
In all the magnanimity of thought; 
Besolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. 
And why? because he thinks himself immortal. 
All men think all men mortal but themselves. 

1169 Young : Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 417. 

DELUSION. 

For love of grace, 
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul 
That not your trespass but my madness speaks : 
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place : 
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, 
Infects unseen. 

1170 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4 

DENMARK. 

Something is rotten in the State of Denmark. 

1171 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. 



126 DEPOB TMENT— DESOLA TION. 

DEPORTMENT. 
What's a fine person, or a beauteous face, 
Unless deportment gives them decent grace? 
Blest with all other requisites to please, 
Some want the striking elegance of ease ; 
The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; 
They seem like puppets led about by wires. 

1172 Churchill : Bosciad. Line 741 

DEPRAVITY. 

God's love seemed lost upon him. 

1173 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Heaven. 

DEPRESSION. 
All day the darkness and the cold 
Upon my heart have lain, 
Like shadows on the winter sky, 
Like frost upon the pane. 

1174 Whittier: On Receiving an Eagle's Quill. 

DESIGN. 
Purpose is but the slave to memory, 
Of violent birth but poor validity; 
Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the tree, 
But fall unshaken when they mellow be. 

1175 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

He that intends well, yet deprives himself 
Of means to put his good thoughts into deed, 
Deceives his purpose of the due reward. 

1176 Beaumont& Fletcher: Honest Man 's Fortune. Acti. Sc.l. 

DESIRE — see Disappoin tment. 

Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, 

Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. 

1177 Shaks. : B. of Lucrece. Line 1490. 

DESOLATION. 
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? 
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? 
To view each loved one blotted from life's page, 
And be alone on earth, as I am now. 

1178 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 98. 

Desolate ! Life is so dreary and desolate. 
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, 
Yet with itself every soul stancleth single, 
Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan ; 
Holding and having its brief exultation ; 
Making its lonesome and low lamentation ; 
Fighting its terrible conflicts alone. 

1179 Alice Gary: Life. 



DESPAIB. 127 

DESPAIR — see Suicide. 
They have tied me to a stake ; I cannot fly, 
But, bear-like, I must fight the course. 

1180 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc, 7. 

I am one, my liege, 
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world 
Have so incens'd, that I am reckless what 
I do, to spite the world. 

1181 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

O ! that this too, too solid flesh would melt, 

Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! 

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 

His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! O God ! O God ! 

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 

Seems to me all the uses of this world ! 

1182 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i, Sc. 2. 

There's nothing in this world can make me joy: 
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

1183 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

If thou didst but consent 
To this most cruel act, do but despair ; 
And if thou waut'st a cord, the smallest thread 
That ever spider twisted from her womb 
Will serve to strangle thee. 

1184 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

So cowards fight, when they can fly no further ; 
So doves do peck the falcon's piercing talons ; 
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, 
Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers. 

1185 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 4. 
It were all one, 

That I should love a bright particular star, 
And think to wed it. 

1186 Shaks. : All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear; 
( Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost; 
Evil, be thou my good ! 

1187 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 108. 

All hope is lost 
Of my reception into grace ; what worse? 
For where no hope is left, is left no fear. 

1188 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. iii. Line 204, 

When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, 
Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. 

1189 Dr. Johnson: Irene. Act iv. Sc. 1 



1 28 DESPAW — DESPO TISM. 

For men as resolute appear 

With too much, as too little fear ; 

And, when they're out of hopes of flying, 

Will run away from death, by dying, 

Or turn again to stand it out, 

And those they fled like lions rout. 

1190 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 27c 
Talk not of comfort — 'tis for lighter ills ; 

I will indulge my sorrow, and give way 
To all the pangs and fury of despair. 

1191 Addison : Cato. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Even God's providence 

Seeming estranged. 

1192 Hood : Bridge of Sighs. 
Beware of desperate steps ! — the darkest day, 

Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away. 

1193 Cowper: Needless Alarm. Line 132. 
Alas ! the breast that inly bleeds 

Hath nought to dread from outward blow : 
Who falls from all he knows of bliss, 
Cares little into what abyss. 

1194 Byron: Giaour. Line 1163. 
They who have nothing more to fear may well 

Indulge a smile at that which ouce appall d ; 
As children at discovered bugbears. 

1195 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Despair defies even despotism ; there is 

That in my heart would make its way thro' hosts 
With levell'd spears. 

1196 Byron: Two Foscari. Act i. Sc. 1 
Alas for him who never sees 

The stars shine through his cypress-trees ! 
Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, 
Nor looks to see the breaking clay 
Across the mournful marbles play! 
Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, 
The truth to flesh and sense unknown, 
That Life is ever lord of Death, 
And Love can never lose its own ! 

1197 Wiittier: Snow-Bound. 

DESPOTISM. 

Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves, 
Who all the sacred mysteries of Heaven 
To their own vile advantages shall turn 
Of lucre and ambition, and the truth 
With superstitions and traditions taint. 

1198 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 508 



DESTINY— DETRACTION. 129 

DESTINY. 

That old miracle — Love-at-first-sight — 
Needs no explanations. The heart reads aright 
Ics destiny sometimes. 

1199 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 16 t 

Like warp and woof all destinies 
Are woven fast, 

Linked in sympathy like the keys 
Of an organ vast. 

Pluck one thread, and the web ye mar ; 
Break but oue 

Of a thousand keys, aud the paining jar 
Through all will ruu. 

1200^ Whittier : My Soul and I. St. 37, 

DETERMINATION — see Resolution. 
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed ; 
Por what I will, I will, and there an end. 

1201 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Although 
The air of paradise did fan the house, 
And angels offic'd all ; I will be gone. 

1202 Shaks. : All's Well. Act iii. Sc. 2, 

I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, 
And bid me hold my peace. 

1203 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 

DETRACTION— see Slander, Scandal. 
Happy are they that hear their detractions, 
And can put them to mencliug. 

1204 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, 

Is chc immediate jewel of their souls : 

Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 

*Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : 

But he that filches from me my good name, 

Robs me of that which not enriches him, 

And makes me poor indeed. 

1205 Shaks. : Othello. Act ill. Sc. a 
'Tis not the wholesome sharp morality, 

Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, 

That hurts or wounds the body of a state, 

But the sinister application 

Of the malicious, ignorant, and base 

Interpreter, who will distort and strain 

The general scope and purpose of an author 

To his particular and private spleen. 

1206 Ben Jonson : Poetaster. Act v. Sc. L 



130 DETRACTION— DEW. 

A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; 
At every word a reputation dies. 

1207 Pope: R. of the Lock. Canto iii. Line 15. 
So, naturalists observe, a flea, 

Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; 
And these have smaller still to bite 'em. 
And so proceed ad infinitum. 

1208 Swift : On Poetry. A Rhapsody. 

Mankind praise against their will, 
And mix as much detraction as they can. 

1209 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 502. 

DEVIL. 

The devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; 
The devil was well, the devil a saint was he. 

1210 Rabelais: Works. Bk. iv. Ch. xxiv. 

The devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape. 

1211 Shahs. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
He will give the devil his due. 

1212 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 2. 

DEVOTION. 

Other hope had she none, nor wish in life, but to follow 
Meekly, with reverent steps, the sacred feet of her Savior. 

1213 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. ii. v. Line 35. 

As down in the sunless retreats of the ocean 
Sweet flowers are springing no mortal can see, 
So deep in my soul the still prayer of devotion 
Unheard by the world, rises silent to Thee. 

1211 Moore : As Down in the Sunless Retreats. 

DEW. 

See how the orient dew 

Shed from the bosom of the morn 

Into the blowing roses 

(Yet careless of its mansion new 

For the clear region where 'twas born) 

Round in itself incloses, 

And in its little globe's extent 

Frames, as it can, its native element. 

1215 Andrew Marvell : A Drop of Dew. 

Within the rose I found a trembling tear, 
Close curtained in a gloom of crimson night 
By tender petals from the outer light. 
I plucked the flower and held it to my ear, 
And thought within its fervid breast to hear 
A smothered heart-beat throbbing soft and low. 

1216 Boyesen : Within the Rose I Pound a Trembling Tear, 



DE W— DIXXER. 131 

The dew-drop in the breeze of morn, 
Trembling and sparkling on the thorn, 
Falls to the ground, escapes the eye, 
Yet mounts on sunbeams to the sky. 

1217 James Montgomery : A Recollection of Mary F. 
DIFFICULTY. 

It is as hard to come, as for a camel 
To thread the postern of a needle's eye. 

1218 Shaks. : Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5. 
DIGNITY. 

With grave 
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'cl 
A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven 
Deliberation sat, and public care ; 
And princely counsel in his face yet shone 
Majestic, though in ruin. Sage he stood, 
With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear 
The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look 
Drew audience and attention still as night 
Or summer's noontide air. 

1219 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 300. 
DIMPLES. 

In each cheek appears a pretty dimple ; 
Love made those hollows ; if himself were slain 
He might be buried in a tomb so simple ; 
Foreknowing well, if there he came to lie, 
Why, there Love lived, and there he could not die. 

1220 Shales. : Venus and A. Line 242. 
DINNER— see Feasting-, Gluttony. 

Let me not stay a jot for dinner : go, 
Get it ready. 

1221 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Then from the mint walks forth the man of rhyme, 
Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time. 

1222 Rope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 13. 
He fell upon whate'er was offer'd, like 

A priest, a shark, an alderman, or pike. 

1223 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 157. 
Method's more sure at moments to take hold 

Of the best feelings of mankind, which grow 
More tender, as we every day behold, 
Than that all -softening, overpowering knell, 
The tocsin of the soul — the dinner bell ! 

1224 Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 49, 
All human history attests 

That happiness for man — the hungry sinner — 
Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner! 

1225 Byron : Don Juan. Cauto xiii. St. 99. 



132 DINNER — DISCOXTEXT. 

'Twas a public feast, and public day — 
Quite full, right dull, guests hot, aud dishes cold, 
Great plenty, much formality, small cheer, 
And everybody out of their own sphere. 

1221; Byron: Don Juan. Canto xvi. St. 78 

DISAPPOINTMENT. 

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 

1227 Shales. : Richard II. Acti. Sc, 3 
My way of life 

Is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf; 
And that which should accompany old age, 
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, 
I must not look to have ; but, in their stead. 
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny, but dare not. 

1228 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3. 
Impell'cl with steps uuceasing to pursue 

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view, 
That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, 
Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies. 

1229 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 25. 
"With more capacity for love, than earth 

Bestows on most of mortal mould and birth, 
His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth, 
And troubled manhood f ollow'cl baffled youth. 

1230 Byron : Lara. Canto i. St. 18. 
Oh ! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd, 

Should be so sadly, cruelly destrby'd ! 

1231 Moore : Lalla Bookh. Veiled Brophet of Kliorassan. 

! ever thus from childhood's hour, 
I I've seen my fondest hopes deca} r ; 

1 never loved a tree or flower, 
But 'twas the first to fade away ! 

1232 Moore : Lalla Bookh. Fire Worshippers. 
DISCONTENT. 

I know a discontented gentleman, 
Whose humble means match not his haughtv spirit. 

1233 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
I see your brows are full of discontent, 

Your hearts of sorrow, and vour eyes of tears. 

1231 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

O thoughts of men accurs'd ! 
Past, and to come, seem best ; things uresent, worst. 

1235 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. a 
Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, 

As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit 
That could be mov'd to smile at anything. 

1236 Shaks. : Jul. Cczsar. Act i. Sc 2 



DISCORD — DISCRETION. 133 

DISCORD —see Controversy, Disputes. 
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. 

1237 Spenser: Faerie Queene. Bk. iii. Canto ii. St. 15, 

How sour sweet music is, 
When time is broke, and no proportion kept ! 

1238 Shaks. : Richard II Act v. Sc. 5. 
How in one house 

Should many people, under two commands, 
Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible. 

1239 Shales. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Discords make the sweetest airs. 

1240 Butler: Hudibras. Ft. iii. Canto 1. Line 919. 
From hence, let fierce contending- nations know 

What dire effects from civil discord flow. 

1241 Addison : Cato. Act v. Sc. 4. 
Discord, a sleepless hag, who never dies, 

With snipe-like nose and ferret-glowing eyes, 
Lean sallow cheeks, long chin, with beard supplied, 
Poor crackling joints, and wither'd parchment hide, 
As if old drums, worn out with martial din, 
Had clubb'cl their yellow heads to form her skin. 

1242 Peter Pindar : The Lousiad. Canto iii. 
DISCRETION — see Caution, Conduct, Prudence, Ruling-. 

You are old ; 
Nature in you stands on the very verge 
Of her confine : you should be ruled and led 
By some discretion, that discerns your state 
Better than you yourself. 

1243 Shaks. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, 

Not to outsport discretion. 

1244 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
The better part of valor is discretion. 

1245 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 4. 
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill; 

Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 

1246 Fletcher : Upon an Honest Man's Fortune. Line 37 
Quoth he, That man is sure to lose, 

That fouls his hands with dirty foes ; 
For where no honor's to be gain'd, 
'Tis thrown away in being maintain'd. 

1247 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 849. 
It shewed discretion, the best part of valor. 

1248 Beaumont & Fletcher : King and No King. Activ. Sc. 3. 
Even in a hero's heart 

Discretion is the better part. 

1249 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. i. Line 233 



1 ;] 4 DISC USSIOX— DISPARAGEMENT. 

DISCUSSION— see Controversy. 

Leave this keen encounter of our wits, 
And fall somewhat into a slower method. 

1250 Shales. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 

DISEASES — see Sickness. 

Diseases, desperate grown. 
By desperate appliance are reliev'd, 
Or not at all. 

1251 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, 

Eeceives the lurking principle of death ; 

The young disease, that must subdue at length, 

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. 

1252 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 133. 

DISGUISE. 

Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises, 
Hence false tears, deceits, disguises. 

1253 Pope : Tv;o Choruses to Tragedy of Brutus Chor. il 

'Tis great, 'tis manly, to disdain disguise ; 
It shows our spirit, or it proves our strength. 

1251 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 372. 

DISLIKE. 

I do not love thee. Doctor Fell, 
The reason why I cannot tell ; 
But this alone I know full well, 
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell. 

1255 Tom Brown: Trans, of Martial's Ep. I. 33. 

DISOBEDIENCE. 

She is peevish, sullen, froward, 
Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty; 
Neither regarding that she is my child, 
Nor fearing me as if I were her father. 

1256 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit 
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
Brought death into the world, and all our woe. 

1257 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 1. 

DISPARAGEMENT. 

They praise, and they admire, they know not what, 
And know not whom, but as one leads the other, 
And what delight to be by such extoll'd, 
To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, 
Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise? 

1258 Milton : Par. Pegained. Bk. iii. Line 52. 



)TSSE 



LIBRARY 

DISPAR. 1 GE2FEXT — DISSENSIONS. \ 35 

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the srin; 

Coral is far more red than her lips' red: 

If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; 

If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. 

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, 

But no such roses see I in her cheeks ; 

And in some perfumes is there more delight 

Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. 

I love to hear her speak; yet well I know 

That music hath a far more pleasing sound : 

I grant, I never saw a goddess go ; 

My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground. 

1259 Shaks. : Sonnet, cxxx. 

DISPARITY. 
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together : 
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care ; 
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather ; 
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare : 
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; 
Youth is nimble, age is lame : 
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold ; 
Youth is wild, and age is tame. 

1260 Shaks. : Pass. Pilgrim. St. 12. 

DISPATCH— see Decision. 
Let's take the instant by the forward top ; 
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees 
Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time 
Steals, ere we can effect them. 

1261 Shaks. : Airs Well. Act v. Sc. 3. 

DISPUTE — see Controversy, Discord. 
'Tis strange how some men's tempers suit, 
Like bawd and brandy, with dispute, 
That for their own opinions stand fast, 
Only to have them claw'd and canvass'd. 

1262 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 1. 

Some say, compared to Bononcini, 
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny ; 
Others aver that he to Handel 
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. 
Strange that all this diff 'reuce should be 
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. 

1263 J. Byrom : On the Feuds bet. Handel and Bononcini. 

DISSENSIONS. 
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts, 
That no dissension hinder government. 

1264 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI Act iv. Sc. 6. 



136 DISSENSIONS— DISTANCE. 

Alas 1 how light a cause may move 
Dissension between hearts that love I 
Hearts that the world in vain had tried, 
And sorrow but more closely tied ; 
That stood the storm, when waves were rough, 
Yet in a sunny hour fall off. 

1265 Moore : Lalla Bookh. Light of the Harem 

Dissensions, like small streams at first begun, 
Unseen they rise, but gather as they run. 

1266 Garth : Dispensary. Canto iii. Line 184. 

DISSENTERS — see Methodists, Puritans. 
So, ere the storm of war broke out, 
Religion spawn'd a various rout 
Of petulant, capricious sects, 
The maggots of corrupted texts, 
That first run all religion down, 
And, after every swarm, its own. 

1267 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 7. 

A little, round, fat, oily man of God. 

1268 Thomson : Castle of Indolence. Canto i. St. 69. 

DISSIMULATION — see Deceit, Discretion, Duplicity. 
Away and mock the time with fairest show : 
False face must hide what the false heart doth kuow. 

1269 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. 

When my love swears that she is made of truth, 
I do believe her, though I know she lies. 

1270 Shaks. : Sonnet, cxxxviii. 

Thus 'tis with all — their chief and constant care 
Is to seem everything but what they are. 

1271 Goldsmith : Epilogue to The Sisters. 

DISSOLUTION. 

Like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a rack behind. 

1272 Shaks. : Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

DISTANCE. 
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, 
And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 

1273 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. i. Line 7 



DISTINCTIONS — DOUBT. 137 

DISTINCTIONS. 
There's but the twinklicg of a star 
Between a man of peace and war; 
A thief and justice, fool and knave, 
A huffing ofTcer and a slave; 
A crafty lawyer aud a pickpocket, 
A great philosopher and a blockhead; 
A formal preacher and a player, 
A learu'd physician aud man-slayer. 

1274 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto iii. Line 957 

DISTRUST. 
The saddest thing that can befall a soul 
Is when it loses faith in God aud woman. 

1275 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama, Sc. 12. 

DOCTORS — see Physic, Quacks, Sickness. 
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death 
Will seize the doctor too. 

1276 Shahs. : Cymbeline. Act v. Sc. 5. 

DOGS. 

Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men ; 
As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept 
All by the name of dogs : the valued file 
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, 
The housekeeper, the huuter, every one 
Accordiug to the gift which bounteous nature 
Hath in him closed. 

1277 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1, 

I am his Highness's dog at Kew ! 
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? 

1278 Pope : On the Collar of a Dog he gave to the Prince, 

DOMINION. 

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice 
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : 
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. 

1279 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Liue 26L 

£>OUBT— see Irresolution. 

Modest doubt is call'd 
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches 
To the bottom of the worst. 

1280 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Our doubts are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. 

1281 Shaks. : M. for M. Act i. Sc. 5. 



138 DOUBT— DUE AM S. 

He would not with a peremptory tone 
Assert the nose upon his face his own; 
With hesitation admirably slow, 
He humbly hopes — presumes it may be so. 

1282 Cowper: Conversation. Line 121. 

There lives more faith in honest doubt, 
Believe me, than in half the creeds. 

12s;3 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xcv. St. 3. 

DOVER CLIFFS. 

How fearful 
And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low ! 
The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air 
Show scarce so gross as beetles : half way down 
Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! 
Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : 
The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, 
Appear like mice : and yon tall anchoring bark 
Dimiuish'd to her cock ; her cock a buoy 
Almost too small for sight : the murmuring surge, 
That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, 
Cannot be heard so high : I'll look no more ; 
Lest .my brain turn, and the deficient sight 
Topple down headlong. 

1281 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6- 

The dreadful summit of the cliff, 
That beetles o'er his base into the sea, . . . 
The very place puts toys of desperation, 
Without more motive, into every brain, 
That looks so many fathoms to the sea, 
And hears it roar beneath. 

1285 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. 

DRAMA. 

The drama's laws the drama's patrons give, 
For we that live to please, must please to live. 

1286 Dr. Johnson: Pro. On Opening Drury Lane Theatre. 
Some force whole regions, in despite 

O' geography, to change their site; 

Make former times shake hands with latter, 

And that which was before, come after. 

1287 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 23 

DREAMS. 

I talk of dreams 
Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy; 
Which is as thin of substance as the air ; 
And more inconstant than the wind. 

1288 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. i 






DREAMS. 130 

If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, 
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. 

1289 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act v. Sc. 1 

'Tis still a dream ; or else such stuff as madmen 
Tongue, and brain not : either both or nothing; 
Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such 
As sense cannot untie. 

1290 Shales. : Cymbeline. Act v. Sc. 4 

Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes. 
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes : 
Compounds a medley of disjointed things, 
A mob of cobblers, and a court of kings : 
Light fumes are merry, grosser fumes are sad ; 
Both are the reasonable soul run mad. 

1291 Dryd.en: Cock and the Fox. Line 325. 

Dreams in their development have breath, 
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; 
They leave a weight upon our Avaking thoughts : 
They take a weight from off our waking toils ; 
They do divide our being ; they become 
A portion of ourselves as of our time, 
And look like heralds of eternitv. 

1292 Byron: Dream, St. 1. 

When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away, 

And in a dream as in a fairy bark 

Drift on and on through the enchanted dark 

To purple daybreak — little thought we pay 

To that sweet bitter world we know by day. 

~We are clean quit of it, as is a lark 

So high in heaven no human eye can mark 

The thin, swift pinion cleaving through the grav. 

1293 T. B. Aldrich: Sonnet. Sleep. 

Dreams full oft are found of real events 
The forms and shadows. 

129-1 Joanna Baillie : Ethwald. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

One of those passing rainbow dreams, 
Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams 
Paint on the fleeting mists that roll, 
In trance or slumber, round the soul. 

1295 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers. 

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, 
Unnatural and full of contradictions; 
Yet others of our most romantic schemes 
Are something more than Actions. 

1296 Hood: The Haunted House. 



1 40 DRESS — DRINKING. 

DRESS. 

Neat and trimly drest, 
Fresh as a bridegroom, and his chin new reaped, 
Showed like a stubble land at harvest home. 

1297 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. 

But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

1298 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 
What, is the jay more precious than the lark, 

Because his feathers are more beautiful? 
Or is the adder better than the eel, 
Because his painted skin contents the eye? 

1299 Shaks, : Tarn, of the S. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: 

For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ; 

And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, 

So honor peereth in the meanest habit. 

1300 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Her polish'd limbs, 

Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, 
Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness 
Needs not the foreign aid of ornameut, 
But j^, when unaclorn'd, adorn'd the most 

1301 Thomson: Seasons. Autumn. Line 202. 
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; 

In short, my deary, kiss me ! and be quiet. 

1302 Lady M. W. Montague: Summary of Lord Littel- 

ton's Advice. 
We sacrifice to dress, till household joys 
And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, 
And keeps our larder lean ; puts out our fires, 
And introduces hunger, frost, and woe, 
"Where peace and hospitality might reign. 

1303 Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line (314. 
DRINKING — DRUNKENNESS. 

Great men should drink with harness on their throats. 

1304 Shales. : Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Oh, that men should put an enemy in 

Their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we 
Should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, 
Transform ourselves into beasts ! 

1305 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
They were red-hot with drinking ; 

So full of valour, that they smote the air 
For breathing in their faces ; beat the ground 
For kissing of their feet. 

1306 Shaks. : Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. 






DRINKING — DB UNKENNES S. U\ 

Sweet fellowship in shame ; 
One drunkard loves another of the name. 

1307 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc, 3 

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, 
And drinks, and gapes for drink again; 
The plants suck in the earth, and are, 
With constant drinking, fresh and fair. 

1308 Anacreon {Cowley) : Drinking. 

Why should ev'ry creature drink but I? 
Why, man of morals, tell me why? 

1309 Anacreon (Covjley): Blinking. 

I drank; I lik'd it not; 'twas rage, 'twas noise, 
An airy scene of transitory joys. 
In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl 
Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul. 
To the late revel, and protracted feast, 
Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder' cl rest. 

1310 Prior: Solomon. Bk. ii. Line 106. 

One sip of this 
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight 
Beyond the bliss of dreams. 

1311 Milton: Comus. Line 811. 
Give him strong drink until he wink, 

That's sinking in despair : 

An' liquor guid to fire his bluid, 

That's prest wi' grief an' care, 

There let him bouse and deep carouse, 

Wi' bumpers flowing o'er, 

Till he forgets his loves or debts, 

An' minds his griefs no more. 

1312 Burns: Scotch Drink 
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, 

What dangers thou canst make us scorn. 

1813 Bums: Tarn O'Shanter. Line 105, 

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; 
The best of life is but intoxication ; 
Glory, the grape, love, gold — in these are sunk 
The hopes of all men, and of every nation. 

1314 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 179. 
'Tis pity wine should be so deleterious, 

For tea and coffee leave us much more serious. 

1315 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 52, 
Fill full ! Why this is as it should be : here 

Is my true realm, amidst bright eyes and faces, 
Eappy as fair! Here sorrow cannot reach. 

1 3 *6 Byron: Sardanapalus- Act iii Sc. 1 



H2 DR YD EN— D UPLICITY. 

DRYDEN. 
Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join 
The varying verse, the full resounding line, 
The long majestic march, and energy divine. 

1817 Pope: Satire v. Line 267c 

DUELLING. 

All me ! what perils do environ 
The man that meddles with cold iron ! 
What plaguy mischiefs and mishaps 
Do dog him still with after-claps. 

1318 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line L 
Some fiery fop, with new commission vain, 

Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man ; 
Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, 
Provokes a broil, and stabs yon for a jest. 

1319 Dr. Johnson: London. 
IVIen engage in it compell'd by force. 

And fear not courage, is its proper source, 

The fear of tyrant custom, and the fear 

Lest fops should censure us, and fools should sneer. 

Am I to set my life upon a throw 
Because a bear is rude and surly? — Xo — 
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man 
Will not affront me, and no other can. 

1320 Coirper : Conversation. Line 179. 
It has a strange, quick jar upon the ear, 

This cocking of a pistol, when you know 
A moment more will bring the sight to bear 
Upon your person, twelve yards off or so. 

1321 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 41. 

DUNCE. 
How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, 
Excels a dunce, that has been kept at home. 

1322 Coirper : Prog, of Error. Line -115. 

DUNDEE. 
Oh ! for a single hour of that Dundee, 
Who on that dav the word of onset gave. 

1323 Wordsworth: Sonnet. In the Pass of Killicranky. 

DUPLICITY — see Dissimulation. 
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; 
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 
7ust hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. 

1324 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 201 



D UPLICITY— EAR TIL 143 

0. what may man within him hide, 
Though angel on the outward side. 

1325 Shahs. : M. for 31. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
You are liberal in offers ; 

You taught me first to beg; and now, me thinks, 
You teach me how a beggar should be answered. 

1326 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Where nature's end of language is declined, 

And men talk only to conceal the mind. 

1327 ' Young : Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 207. 

DUTY — see Father, Mother, Parents. 
When I'm not thank' cl at all, I'm thank'd enough : 
I've done my duty, and I've done no more. 

1328 Fielding : Tom Thumb. Act L Sc. 3. 
And rauk for her meant duty, various, 

Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. 
Command was service ; humblest service done 
By willing and discerning souls was glory. 

1329 George Eliot : Agatha. 
Be sure that God 

Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart. 

1330 Robert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 1. 
Hath the spirit of all beauty 

Kissed you in the path of duty? 

1331 Anna Katharine Green : On the Threshold. 
New occasions teach new duties. 

1332 James Bussell Lowell: The Present Crisis. St. 18. 

E. 

EAGLE. 
He clasps the crag with hooked hands, 
Close to the sun in lonely lands ; 
Bing'd with the azure world, he stands, 
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; 
He watches from his mountain walls, 
And like a thunderbolt he falls. 

1333 Tennyson : The Eagle. 
EARLY RISING. 

To business that we love, we rise betime, 
And go to it with delight. 

1334 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
EARTH. 

Where is the dust that has not been alive? 
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors; 
From human mould we reap our daily bread. 

1335 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 91. 



141 EA R THQ UAjLES — ECHO. 

EARTHQUAKES. 

Diseased, nature oftentimes breaks forth 

In strange eruptions ; oft the teeming earth 

Is with a kind of colic piuch'd and vex'd 

B} r the imprisoning of unruly wind 

Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving. 

Shakes the old beldame earth, and topples down 

Steeples and moss-grown towers. 

1336 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV Act iii. Sc 1 

EASE. 
Whate'er he did was done with so much ease, 
In him alone 'twas natural to please. 

1337 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 27. 

EASTER. 
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees 
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. 

1338 Longfellow: Spanish Student. Act i. Sc. 3. 

EATING— see Appetite, Dinner. 

He hath eaten me out of house and home. 

1339 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act ii. Sc. L 
Unquiet meals make ill digestions. 

1340 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Now good digestion wait on appetite, 

And health on both. 

1341 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
A good digestion to you all : and, once more, 

I shower a welcome on you ; Welcome all. 

1342 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Famish'd people must be slowly nurst. 

And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. 

1343 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 15S. 

ECHO. 

Echo waits with art and care 
And will the faults of song repair. 

1344 Emerson : May-day. Line 439. 
Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance, 

And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was 
the silence. 

1345 Longfelloto : Evangeline. Pt. Second, ii. Line 56. 
Her voice is still living immortal, — 

The same you have frequently heard. 
In your rambles in valleys and forests, 
Repeating yonr ultimate word ! 

1346 J. G. Saxe: Tlie Story of Echo 



E CHO — ED UCA TION. 145 

love, they die, in yon rich sky, 
They faint on hill or field or river : 
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, 
And grow for ever and for ever. 

Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, 
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. 

1347 Tennyson : The Princess. Pt. iiL Song. 
ECONOMY. 

Economy, the poor man's mint. 

1348 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Society. 

EDUCATION — see Instruction, Knowledge, Learning-. 
Learning by study must be won ; 
'Twas ne'er entail' d from son to son. 

1349 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 11. 
'Tis pleasing to be school' d in a strange tongue 

By female lips and eyes — that is, I mean, 

When both the teacher, and the taught are young, 

As was the case, at least, where I have been; 

They smile so when one's right ; and when one's wrong 

They smile still more. 

1350 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 164. 
'Tis education forms the common mind; 

Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. 

1351 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 149, 
A little learning is a dangerous thing, 

Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring, 
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, 
And drinking largely sobers us again. 

1352 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 15. 
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, 

And things unknown proposed as things forgot. 

1353 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 15. 
Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, 

To teach the young idea how to shoot, 
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, 
To breathe the enliv'ning spirit, and to fix 
The generous purpose in the glowing breast. 

1354 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 1156 
Oh ye. who teach th' ingenuous youth of nations — 
Holland, France, England, Germany, or Spain — 

1 pray ye flog them upon all occasions ; 

It mends their morals : never mind the pain. 

1355 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 1 
She taught the child to read, and taught so well, 

That she herself, by teaching, learn'd to spell. 

1356 Byron: Sketch 



146 EFFEMINACY— ELOQUENCE. 

EFFEMINACY. 

Go! let thy less than woman's hand 
Assume the distaff, not the brand. 

1357 Byron : Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 4. 

ELYSIUM. 

The far Hesperides, 
The islands of the blest, 
Where no turbulent billows roar, — 
Where is rest. 

1358 E. C. Stedman : TJie Old Admiral. St. 6. 

EGG. 

The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. 

1359 Pope : Satire vi. Line 85. 

ELOQUENCE — see Oratory, Rhetoric. 

Aged ears play truaut at his tales, 
And younger hearings are quite ravished; 
So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 

1360 Shales. : Love's L. Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

When he speaks, 
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, 
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, 
To steal his sweet and honev'd senteuces. 

1361 Shales. : Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. 
His tongue 

Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear 
The better reason, to perplex and dash 
Maturest counsels. 

1362 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 113. 
Dead falls the cause, if once the hand be mute ; 

But let that speak, the client gets the suit. 

1363 Herrick : Aph. Bribes and Gifts get All 
Words are like leaves, and where they most abound, 
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 

1361 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 109. 

Verily, O man, with truth for thy theme, eloquence shall 
throne thee with archangels. 

1365 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Speaking. 

Oft the hours 
From morn to eve have stol'n unmark'd away, 
While mute attention hung upou his lips. 

1366 Akenside: PI. of Imagination. Bk. ii. Line 187. 
While words of learned length and thundering sound 
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around ; 

And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew, 
That one small head could carry all he knew. 

1367 Goldsmith : Deserted Village. Line 213- 



ELOQ UEXCE — ENG LAND. H7 

The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice, 
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. 

1368 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xv. St. 13. 

EMIGRATION — see Exile. 
Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail, 
That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale, 
Downward they move, a melancholy band, 
Pass from the shore, and darken all the strand. 

1369 Goldsmith : Deserted Village. Line 40a 
EMINENCE — see Envy, Fame. 

He who ascends to mountain tops shall And 

The loftiest peaks most wrapp'd in clouds and snow ; 

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, 

Must look down on the hate of those below. 

1370 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 45, 
ENDURANCE — see Perseverance. 

He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer 

The worst that man can breathe ; 

And make his wrongs his outsides, 

To wear them like his raiment, carelessly ; 

And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, 

To bring it into danger. 

1371 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iii., Sc. 5. 
'Tis not now who's stout and bold? 

But who bears hunger best, and cold? 
And he's, approv'd the most deserving, 
Who longest can hold out at starving. 

1372 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 353. 
ENEMY. 

Yourself who are your greatest foe. 

1373 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 3. 

ENERGY — see Decision. 

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt ; 
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. 

1374 Her rick : Aph. Seek and Find, 
Let us, then, be up and doing, 

"With a heart for any fate ; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labor and to wait. 

1375 Longfellow: Psalm of Life. 
ENGLAND — see Britain. 

It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe : 
For peace itself should not so dull a kingdom, . . . 
But that defences, musters, preparations, 
Should be maintain'd, assembled and collected, 
As were a war in expectation. 

1376 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. SCc 4 



148 ENGLAND. 

O England! — model to thy inward greatness. 
Like little body with a mighty heart, — 
What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do, 
Were all thy children kind and natural ! 

1377 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Chorus 
This England never did, nor never shall, 

Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, 
But when it first did help to wound itself. 

Come the three corners of the world in arms, 

And we shall shock them : nought shall make us rue, 

If England to itself do rest but true. 

1378 Shaks. : King John. Act v. Sc, 7 
England is safe, if true within itself. 

'Tis better using Erance than trusting France. 

1379 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 1 
England, bound in with the triumphant sea, 

Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege 
Of watery Neptune. 

1380 Shaks. : Richard II. Act ii. Sc. I 
This precious stone set in the silver sea, 

Which serves it in the office of a wall, 

Or as a moat defensive to a house, 

Against the envy of less happier lands ; 

This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. 

1381 Shaks.: Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1, 
Hath Britain all the sun that shines ? Day, night, 

Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's volume 
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in't; 
In a great pool, a swan's nest. Prithee think 
There's livers out of Britain. 

1382 Shaks. : Gymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Would I had never trod this English earth, 

Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it ! 

Ye have angels' faces, but Heaven knows your hearts. 

1383 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Island of bliss ! amid the subject seas, 

That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, 
At once the wonder, terror and delight 
Of distant nations : whose remotest shores 
Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm ; 
Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults 
Baffling, as thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave. 

1384 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1597 
The land of scholars and the nurse of arms. 

1385 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 356= 



ENGLAND — ENNUI. 1 49 

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time 
Is England. England! 

138G Alexander Smith : An Evening at Home. 

England, a happy laud we know, 
Where follies naturally grow, 
"Where without culture the}- arise, 
And tow'r above the common size. 

1387 Churchill: Ghost. Bk. i. Line 111. 
England, with all thy faults, I love thee still ; 

My country ! and while yet a nook is left 

Where English minds and manners may be found, 

Sh.ill be constrain'd to love thee. Though thy clime 

Be fickle, and thy year, most part, deform'd 

With dripping rains, or wither'd by a frost, 

I would not yet exchange thy sullen skies 

And fields without a flower, for warmer Erance 

With all her vines : nor for Ausonia's groves 

Of golden fruitage and her myrtle bowers. 

1388 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 206. 

England ! my country, great and free ! 
Heart of the world, I leap to thee ! 

1389 Bailey : Festus. Sc. The Surface. 

England, our Mother's Mother ! Come, and see 

A greater England here ! O come, and be 

At home with us, your children, for there runs 

The same blood in our veins as in your sons ; 

The same deep-seated love of Liberty 

Beats in our hearts. We speak the same good tongue : 

Familiar with all songs your bards have sung : 

Those large men, Milton, Shakespeare, both are ours. 

1390 R. H. Stoddard: Guests of the State, 

ENMITY— see Envy, Hatred. 
'Tis death to me to be at enmity ; 
I hate it, and desire ad good men's love. 

1391 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Lands, intersected by a narrow frith, 
Abhor each other. Mountains interpos'd 
Make enemies of nations, who had else, 
Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 

1392 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 16. 

ENNUI. 

Ennui is a growth of English root, 
Though nameless in our language : we retort 
The fact for words, but let the French translate 
That awful yawn which sleep cannot abate. 

1393 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiii. St 101 



150 ENTHUSIASM — ENVY. 

ENTHUSIASM. 
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had : 
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 

1394 Pope : Satire iv. Line 26 
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, 

Till half mankind were like himself possess'd. 

1395 Cowper : Prog, of Error. Line 470< 
Rash enthusiasm, in good societ}', 

Were nothing but a moral inebriety. 

1390 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiii. Line 35. 

ENVY. 
O, what a world is this, when what is comely 
Eu venoms him that bears it. 

1397 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Eollow your e"nvious courses, men of malice ; 

You have Christian warrant for them, and, no doubt, 
In time will find their fit rewards. 

1398 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Envy not greatness ; for thou mak'st thereby 

Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater. 
Be not thine own worm : yet such jealousy 
As hurts not others but may make thee better, 
Is a good spur. 

1399 Herbert : Temple. Church Porch. St. 44. 

With that malignant envy, which turns pale 
And sickens, even if a friend prevail; 
Which merit and success pursues with hate, 
And damns the worth it cannot imitate. 

1400 Churchill : Bosciad. Line 127. 
Eools may our scorn, not envy, raise, 

Eor envy is a kind of praise. 

1401 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 44. 
Envy's a sharper spur than pay. 

No author ever spar'd a brother. 

1402 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 10. 
To all apparent beauties blind. 

Each blemish strikes an envious mind. 

1403 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 11. 
In beauty faults conspicuous grow : 

The smallest speck is seen on snow. 

1404 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 11 
Canst thou discern another's mind? 

What is't you envy? Envy's blind; 
Tell envy, when she would annoy. 
That thousands want what von enjov. 

1405 * Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 15 



EN VT— EPITAPHS. 151 

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; 

But, like a shadow, proves the substance true. 

1406 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 266. 
Base envy withers at another's joy, 

And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 

1407 Thomson: Seasons. Spring. Line 284. 
So a wild Tartar, when he spies 

A man that's valiant, handsome, wise, 
If he can kill him, thinks t' inherit 
His wit, his beauty, and his spirit ; 
As if just so much he erjoy'd, 
As in another is destrov'd. 

1408 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 23. 
Even her tyranny had such a grace, 

The women pardon'd all except her face. 

1-109 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 113. 

EPIGRAM. 

Two millers thin, called Bone and Skin 
Would starve us all, or near it; 
But be it known to Skin and Bone, 
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it. 

1410 John Byrom : On Tv:o Monopolists, 

EPIT APHS. 

From his cradle 
He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; 
Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; 
Lofty and sour to them that lov'd him not. 
But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer : 

And to add greater honors to his age 
Than man could give, he died fearing God. 

1411 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Here she lies a pretty bud. 
Lately made of flesh and blood; 
Who. as soon fell fast asliep, 
As her little eyes did peep. 
Give her stre wings, but not stir 
The earth, that lightly covers her. 

14 12 Ilerrick: Aph. Upon a Child that Died, 

Shrine of the mighty! can it be, 
That this is all remains of thee? 

1413 Byron: Giaour. Line 106, 

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed. 
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed. 
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, 
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned. 

1414 Pope: Elegy to Mem. of Unfortunate Lady. Line 51. 



152 EPITAPHS. 

So peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, 
What once had beauty, titles, wealth and fame. 
How lov'cl, how honor'cl once, avails thee not, 
To whom related, or by whom begot ; 
A heap of dust alone remains of thee — 
'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! 

1415 Pope : Elegy to Mem. of Unfortunate Lady. Line 69 

To this sad shrine, whoe'er thou art! draw near, 
Here lies the friend most lov'd, the son most clear ; 
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, 
Or gave his father grief but when he died. 

1416 Pope : Epitaph on Harcourt 

Lo ! where this silent marble weeps, 
A friend, a wife, a mother sleeps ; 
A heart within whose sacred cell 
The peaceful virtues loved to dwell : 
Affection warm, and faith sincere, 
And soft humanity were there. 
In agony, in death resign'd, 
She felt the wound she left behind : 
Her infant image here below 
Sits smiling on a father's woe. 

1417 Gray : Epitaph on Mrs, Jane Gierke. 

Here rests his head, upon the lap of earth, 

A youth to fortune and to fame unknown ; 

Pair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, 

And Melancholy mark'd him for her own. 

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere ; 

Heav'n did a recompense as largely send : 

He gave to Mis'ry (all he had) a tear, 

He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend, 

No farther seek his merits to disclose, 

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode ; 

There they alike in trembling hope repose, 

The bosom of his Father and his God. 

1418 Gray : Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Epitaph 

These are two friends whose lives were undivided; 
So let their memory be, now they have glided 
Under the grave ; let not their bones be parted, 
For their two hearts in life we're single-hearted. 

1419 Shelley: Epitaph 

Nobles and heralds, by your leave, 
Here lies what once was Matthew Prior, 
The son of Adam and of Eve : 
Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher? 

1420 Prior : Ep. Extempore, 



EQUALITY— ETERNITY. 153 

EQUALITY. 
Who can in reason, then, or right, assume 
Monarchy over such as live by right 
His equals, if in pow'r and splendor less, 
In freedom equal? 

1421 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 794 
The trickling rain cloth fall 

Upon us one and all; 
The south wind kisses 
The sauc}'- milkmaid's cheek, 
The nun's demure and meek, 
Nor any misses. 

1422 E. C. Stedman : A Madrigal St. 3. 
EQUIVOCATION. 

I do not like " but yet," it does allay 
The good precedence ; fie upon ' ' but yet " ; 
" But yet " is as a gaoler to bring forth 
Some monstrous malefactor. 

1423 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

ERROR — see Fault. 
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; 
He who would search for pearls must dive below T . 

1424 Dryden : All for Love. Prologue. Line 25. 

Shall Error in the round of time 
Still father Truth? 

1425 Tennijson: Love and Duty 
When people once are in the wrong, 

Each line they add is much too loug ; 
Who fastest walks, but walks astray, 
Is only furthest from his way. 

1426 Prior : Alma. Canto iii. Line 190. 
Error is a hardy plant ; it flourisheth in every soil ; 

In the heart of the wise and good, alike with the wicked 

and foolish; 
Eor there is no error so crooked, but it hath in it some 

lines of truth. 

1427 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Truth in Things False. 
Error is worse than ignorance. 

1428 Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Mountain. 
ETERNITY. 

Beyond is all abyss, 
Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. 

1429 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 555. 
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 

'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, 
And intimates eternity to man. 

1430 Addison: Cato. Act y. Sc. 1, 



154 ETERNITY— EVENING, 

Eternity, thou pleasing, dreadful thought! 
Through what variety of untried beings, 
Through what new scenes and changes must we pas* ! 
The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me, 
But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. 

1431 Addison: Cato. Act v. Sc. 1. 

ETIQUETTE. 
There's nothing in the world like etiquette 
In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, 
As also at the race and county balls. 

1432 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 103 

EVENING — see Night, Sunset, Twilight. 
Now came still evening on.; and twilight gray 
Had in her sober livery all things clad : 
Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, 
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. 

1433 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 598, 
The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. 

1434 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama. Sc. 8. 
The sun has lost his rage, his downward orb 

Shoots nothing now but animating warmth ; 

And vital lustre, that, with various ray, 

Lights up the clouds, those beauteous robes of heaven, 

Incessant roll'd into romantic shapes, 

The dream of waking fancy. 

1435 Tliomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1373. 
And the night shall be filled with music, 

And the cares that infest the day 
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, 
And as silently steal away. 

1436 Longfellow : The Day is Done. 
The day is done, and the darkness 

Ealls from the wings of Night, 
As a feather is wafted downward 
Erom an eagle in his flight. 

1437 ■ Longfellow : The Day is Done. 

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day ; 
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; 
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way. 
And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 
And all the air a solemn stillness holds, 
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, 
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. 

1438 Gray : Elegy. St L 



EVENING. 155 

Sweet was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, 
Up yonder hill the village murmur rose ; 
There as I passed, with careless steps and slow, 
The mingling notes came soften' d from below; 
The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung, 
The sober herd that low'd to meet their young; 
The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, 
The playful children just let loose from school; 
The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, 
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; 
These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, 
And flll'd each pause the nightingale had made. 

1439 Goldsmith : Deserted Village. Line 113. 

Now stir the Are, and close the shutters fast, 
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, 
And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn 
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups 
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, 
So let us welcome peaceful evening in. 

1440 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 36. 

Come, evening, once again, season of peace ; 

Return, sweet evening, and continue long ! 

Methinks I see thee in the streaky west, 

With matron step, slow moving, while the night 

Treads on thy sweeping train ; one hand employ'd 

In letting fall the curtain of repose 

On bird and beast, the other charged for man 

With sweet oblivion of the cares of day. 

1441 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 243. 

It was an evening bright and still 
As ever blush'd on wave or bower, 
Smiling from heaven, as if nought ill 
Could happen in so sweet an hour. 

1442 Moore : Loves of Angels. Second Angel's Story. 

How dear to me the hour when daylight dies, 
And sunbeams melt along the silent sea, 
For then sweet dreams of other days arise, 
And memory breathes her vesper sigh to thee. 

1443 Moore : How Bear to Me the Hour, 

The sun is set ; the swallows are asleep ; 
The bats are flitting fast in the gray air ; 
The slow soft toads out of clamp corners creep ; 
And evening's breath, wandering here and there 
Over the quivering surface of the stream, 
Wakes not one ripple from its silent dream. 

1444 Shelley: Evening. 



156 E VENING — EXAMPLE. 

It is the hour when from the boughs 
The nightingale's high note is heard ; 
It is the hour when lovers' vows 
Seem sweet in every whisper'cl word ; 
And gentle winds, and waters near, 
Make music to the lonely ear. 

1445 Byron : Barisina. St. 1 

EVIL— .see Crime, Vice. 
There is some soul of goodness in things evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out. 

1446 Shales. : Henry V. Act ir. Sc. 1. 
Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 

The instruments of darkness tell us truths, 
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us 
In deepest consequence. 

1447 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. 

1448 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Nought is so vile that on the earth doth live, 

But to the earth some special good doth give ; 
Nor aught so good, but strain'd from that fair use, 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. 

1449 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Farewell hope! and with hope, farewell fear! 
"Farewell remorse ! all good to me is lost. 
Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least 
Divided empire with heaven's king I hold. 

1450 Milton : Bar. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 108. 
Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, 

And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, 
Leaving it richer for the growth of truth. 

1451 James Bussell Lowell. Brometheus. 
But evil is wrought by waut of thought 

As well as want of heart. 

1452 Hood : Lady's Dream. 

EXAGGERATION. 
Mira de lente. as 'tis i' th' adage, 
Id est, to make a leek a cabbage. 

1453 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 847. 

EXAMPLE. 

The evil that men do lives after them, 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

1454 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
How far that little candle throws his beams ! 

So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 

1455 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1. 



EXAMPLE — EXCESS. 157 

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 
Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven ; 
Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, 
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. 

1456 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Heaven cloth with us as we with torches do, 
Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike 
As if we had them not. 

1457 Shaks. : M. for M. Act i. Sc. 1. 

By his life alone, 
Gracious and sweet, the better way was shown. 

1458 Whittier : the Pennsylvania Pilgrim. 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time. 

1459 Longfellow : Psalm of Life, } 

EXCELLENCE. 

What is excellent, 
As God lives, is permanent; 
Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, 
Heart's love will meet thee again. 

1460 Emerson: Threnody- Line 266. 

EXCESS — see Extremes, Satiety. 
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 
To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

1461 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

These violent delights have violent ends, 
And in their triumph die; like fire and powder, 
Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey 
Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, 
And in the taste confounds the appetite. 

1462 Shaks. : Pom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 6, 

Violent fires soon burn out themselves ; 
Small showers last long, but sudden storms are short ; 
He tires betimes, that spurs too fast betimes; 
With eager feeding food cloth choke the feeder: 
Light Vanity, insatiate cormorant, 
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 

1463 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act ii. Sc. 1 . 



158 EXCESS — EXILE. 



The deepest loathing to the stomach brings. 

1464 Shaks. : Mid. X. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

EXCLAMATIONS. 

Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ! 

1465 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4 
O, my prophetic soul! mine uncle! 

1466 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Think of that, Master Brook. 

1467 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen. 

1468 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 330. 
Whence and what art thou, execrable Shape? 

1469 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 681. 

EXCULPATION. 

The very head and front of my offending 
Hath this extent, no more. 

1470 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 

EXCUSES. 

Oftentimes, excusing of a fault 
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse ; 
As patches, set upon a little breach, 
Discredit more in hiding of the fault, 
Than did the fault before it was so patched. 

1471 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

EXECUTION. 

I have seen 
When, after execution, judgment hath 
Kepentecl o'er his doom. 

1472 Shaks. : M. for 31. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
See they suffer death ; 

But in their deaths remember they are men ; 
Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. 

1473 Addison : Cato. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

EXILE — see Emigration. 

Beheld the duteous sou, the sire decayed, 
The modest matron, and the blushing maid, 
Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, 
To traverse climes beyond the Western main. 

1474 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 407. 
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon: 
The world was all before them, where to choose 

Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : 
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, 
Through Eden took their solitary way. 

1475 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 645. 



EXILE- EXPECTATION. 159 

unexpected stroke, worse than of death! 
Must I thus leave thee. Paradise? thus leave 
Thee, native soil? these happy walks and shades, 
Fit haunt of gods, where I had hop'd to spend ; 
Quiet though sad, the respite of that day 
That must be mortal to us both? 

1476 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. xi. Line 268. 

I depart, 
"Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by, 
When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine 
eye. 

1477 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 1. 

Home, kindred, friends, and country — these 
Are things with which we never part; 
From clime to clime, o'er land and seas, 
We bear them with us in our heart : 
And yet ! 'tis hard to feel resign'd, 
When they must all be left behind ! 

1478 Montgomery : Farewell to a Missionary. 

EXPANSION. 

The small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; 
The centre mov'cl, a circle straight succeeds, 
Another still, and still another spreads. 

1479 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 364. 

As on the smooth expanse of crystal lakes 
The sinking stone at first a circle makes; 
The trembling surface by the motion stirr'd, 
Spreads in a second circle, then a third; 
Wide, and more wide, the floating rings advance, 
Fill all the watery plain, and to the margin dance. 

1480 Pope : Tenrple of Fame. Line 436. 



EXPECTATION. 

How slow 
This old moon wanes : she lingers my desires, 
Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, 
Long withering out a vouns: man's revenue. 

1481 Shales. : Mid. X. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. 

" Yet doth he live ! " exclaims th' impatient heir, 
And sighs for sables which he must not wear. 

1482 Byron : Lara. Canto i. St 3 



1 60 EXPEDITION— EXPRESSION. 

EXPEDITION. 
Ill fares the bark with trembling wretches charged, 
That, tost amid the floating fragments, moors 
Beneath the shelter of an icy isle. 
While night o'er whelms the sea, and horror looks 
More horrible. Can human force endure 
The assembled mischiefs that besiege them round? 
Heart-gnawing hunger, fainting weariness, 
The roar of winds and waves, the crush of ice, 
Now ceasing, now renewed with louder rage, 
And in dire echoes bellowing round the main. 

1483 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 1004 

EXPERIENCE. 
He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 

1484 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Experience is by industry achieved, 

And perfected by, the swift course of time. 

1485 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 3. 

To wilful men, 
The injuries that they themselves procure 
Must be their school-masters. 

1486 Shaks. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 
And ask them what report they bore to heaven ; 
And how they might have borne more welcome news. 
Their answers form what men experience call ; 
If wisdom's friend, her best ; if not, worst foe. 

1487 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 376. 

Experience, join'd with common sense, 
To mortals is a providence. 

1488 Matthew Green : Spleen. Line 312. 

To Truth's house there is a single door, 

Which is Experience. He teaches best, 

Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast, 

And knows their strength or weakness through his own. 

1489 Bayard Taylor! Tempt, of Hassan Ben Eluded. St. 3. 

Men may rise on stepping-stones 

Of their dead selves to higher things. 

1490 Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. i. St. 1. 

EXPRESSION. 
There's a language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, 
Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out 
At every joint and motive of her body. 

1491 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iv. Sc. i. 



EXPRESSIOX — E YES. 161 

But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, 
Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon; 
It gilds all objects, but it alters none. 
14'.i2 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 115. 

EXTRAVAGANCE. 
Extravagance, the rich man's pitfall. 

1493 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Society. 

EXTREMES — see Disease, Excess. 

Tlrus each extreme to equal dauger tends, 
Plenty, as well as want, can sep'rate friends. 

1194 Cowley : Davideis. Bk. iii. Line 205. 

Extremes in nature equal good produce, 
Extremes in man concur to general use. 

1495 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 161. 
The fate of all extremes is such, 

Men may be read as well as books, too much. 

1496 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 9. 
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. 

1497 Pope : Odyssey. Bk. xv. Line 79. 

EYES— see. Beauty, Face. 

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, 
Having some business, do entreat her eyes 
To twinkle in their spheres till they return. 

1498 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Her eye in heaven 

Would through the airy region stream so bright, 
That birds would sing, and think it were not night. 

1499 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Faster than his tongue 

Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. 

1500 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Thou tell'^t me, there is murther in mine eye : 

'Tis pretty sure, and very probable, 
That eyes, — that are the frail' st and softest things, 
Who shut their coward gates on atomies, — 
Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murtherers ! 

1501 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5, 
From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive : 

They sparkle still the true Promethean Are ; 
They are the books, the arts, the academes, 
That show, contain, and nourish all the world. 

1502 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3, 
But her's, which through the crystal tears gave light, 
Shone like the moon in water seen by night. 

1503 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 491 



162 EYES. 

If I could write the beauty of your eyes, 
And in fresh numbers number all your graces ; 
The age to come would say, " This poet lies, 
Such heaveuly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces." 

1504 Shaks. : Sonnet, xvii. 
Those eyes, whose light seem'd rather given 

To be aclor'd than to adore — 

Such eyes as may have look'd from heaven, 

But ne'er were rais'd to it before ! 

1505 Moore : Loves of the Angels. Third AngeVs Story. 

In her eyes a thought 
Grew sweeter and sweeter, deepeuing like the dawu, — 
A mystical forewarning. 

1506 T. B. Aldrich : Pythagoras. 
Her eyes, fair eyes, like to the purest lights 

That animate the sun or cheer the day ; 

In whom the shiuing sunbeams brightly play, 

Whiles Fancy doth on them divine delights. 

1507 Bob't Greene : From Menaphon. Menaphon's Eclogue. 
On women Nature did bestow two eyes, 

Like heaven's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining, 
Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise 
Aud wary heads, made rare by art's refining. 

1508 Bobert Greene : From Philomela. Sonnet. 
Nature, foreseeing how men would devise 

More wiles than Proteus, women to entice, 
Granted them two, and those bright shining eyes, 
To pierce into man's faults if they were wise ; 
For they with show of virtue mask their vice : 
Therefore to women's eyes belong these gifts, 
The one must love, the other see men's shifts. 

1509 Bobert Greene : From Philomela. Answer. 

Knowledge stands on my experience : all outside its narrow 

hem, 
Free surmise may sport and welcome. 

1510 Bobert Browning : La Saisiaz. Line 274. 

There are eyes half defiant, 

Half meek and compliant ; 

Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm 

To bring us good or to work us harm. 

1511 Phoebe Gary: Doves' Eyes. 
Thy deep eyes, amid the gloom. 

Shine like jewels in a shroud. 

1512 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv. 
Within her tender eye 

The heaven of April, with its changing light. 

1513 Longfellow: Spirit of Poetry 



EYES. 163 

Dear eyes ! — do not my heart forsake ! 
Shine, like the stars within the lake, — 
Shine, and the darksome shadows break. 

1511 Augustine J. H. Duganne : Love's Eyes- 

Her eye (I am very fond of handsome eyes) , 
Was large and dark, suppressing half its fire 
Until she spoke, then through its soft disguise 
Flash'd an expression more of pride thau ire, 
And love than either ; and there would arise, 
A something in them which was not desire, 
But would have been, perhaps, but for the soul, 
Which struggled through and chasteu'd down the whole. 

1515 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto i. St. 60. 

Say, what other metre is it 
Than the meeting of the eyes? 
Nature poureth iuto nature 
Through the channels of that feature 
Kicliug on the ray of sight, 
Fleeter far than whirlwinds go, 
Or for service, or delight, 
Hearts to hearts their meaning show. 

1516 Emerson: The Visit. 
True eyes 

Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise 
The sweet soul shining thro' them. 

1517 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto ii. St. 3. 
Those dark eyes — so dark aud so deep ! 

1518 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. i. Canto vi. St. 1. 

Eyes that were fountains of thought and song ! 

1519 Bayard Taylor: Epicedium. St. 4. 

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene 
And silent waters heaven is seen. 

1520 William Cullen Bryant: Oh ! Fairest of the Rural Maids. 

Eyes that shame the violet, 

Or the dark drop that on the pansy lies. 

1521 William Cullen Bryant : Spring in Town. 

Soul-deep eyes of darkest night. 

1522 Joaquin Miller: Californian. Pt. iv. 

Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. 

1523 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xxxii. St. 1. 

The bright black eye, the melting blue, — 
I cannot choose between the two. 

1524 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Bilemma. 

These poor eyes, you called, I ween, 
" Sweetest eyes were ever seen." 

1525 Mrs. Browning : Catarina to Camoen& 



164 FACE. 

P. 

FACE— see Beauty, Eyes. 

There's no art 
To find the mind's construction in the face. 

152G Shaks. : Macbejh. Act i. Sc. 4 

Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, 
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen ; 
Examine every several lineament, 

And what obscur'd in this fair volume lies, 
Eind written in the margin of his eyes. 

1527 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 3. 

If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. 

152S Pope: B. of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 17. 

Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, 
The women pardoned all, except her face. 

1529 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 113. 
His face was of that doubtful kind, 

That wins the eye but not the mind. 

1530 Scott : Bokeby. Canto v. St. 16. 
Unknit that threat'niug unkind brow, 

It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. 

1531 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. 
A countenance more in sorrow than in anger. 

1532 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face 

Bears a command in it : tho' thy tackle's torn. 
Thou showest a noble vessel. 

1533 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
Your face, my Thane, is as a book, where men 

May read strange matters. 

1531 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5. 

Her face betokened all things dear and good, 
The light of somewhat yet to come was there 
Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, 
When childish thoughts, like flowers, would drift away. 

1535 Jean Ingelow : Margaret in the Xebec. St. 57. 
A cheek, whose bloom 

Was as a mockery of the tomb, 
Whose tints as gently sunk away 
As a departing rainbow's ray. 

1536 Byron : Bris. of Chillon. St. 8. 
The light upon her face 

Shines from the windows of another world. 
Saints only have such faces. 

1537 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 6. 



FACE — FAITH. 165 

Faces ! — my God, 
We call those, faces? men's and women's ... ay, 
And children's; — babies, hanging like a rag- 
Forgotten on their mother's neck — poor mouths, 
Wiped clean of mother's milk b} r mother's blow, 
Before thej r are taught her cursing. Faces? . . . phew, 
We"ll call them vices festering to despairs, 
Or sorrows petrifying to vices : not 
A finger-touch of God left whole on them; 
All ruined, lost — the countenance worn out 
As the garments, the will dissolute as the act, 
The passions loose and draggling in the dirt 
To trip the foot up at the first free step ! 

1538 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. iv. Line 593 

FAIRIES. 

This is the fairy land ; spite of spites, 

We talk with goblins, owls, and elvish sprites. 

1539 Shahs. : Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Faery elves, 

Whose midnight revels by a forest-side, 

Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, 

Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon 

Sits arbitress, aud nearer to the Earth 

Wheels her pale course, they on their mirth and dance 

Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; 

At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. 

1540 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 781. 

FAITH — see Confidence, Religion. 
If faith produce no works, I see 
That faith is not a living tree. 
Thus faith and Avorks together grow, 
No separate life they e'er can know : 
They're soul and body, hand and heart; — 
What God hath join'd, let no man part. 

1541 Hannah More : Dan and Jane. 
His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 

Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. 

1542 Cowley : On Crashaw. 
Fcr modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; 

His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. 

1543 Pope : Essay on Alan. Epis. iii. Line 305, 
The great world's altar-stairs, 

That slope thro' darkness up to God. 

1544 Tennyson: In Jlemoriam. Pfc. liv. St. 4. 
Whose faith has centre everywhere, 

Nor cares to fix itself to form. 

1545 Tennyson: In Jlemoriam. Pt. xxxiii. St. 1 



166 FAITH— FAME. 

Set on your foot ; 
And, with a heart new flr'd, I follow you, 
To do I know not what : but it sufflceth, 
That Brutus leads me on. 

1546 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act ii. Sc. I, 
Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, 

To break the shock blind nature cannot shun. 

1547 Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 721. 
Faith is the subtle chain 

That biucls us to the Intinite : the voice 
Of a deep life within. 

1548 Elizabeth Oakes Smith : Faith, 
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. 

1549 Bailey : Festus. Proem. Line 84. 
FAITHFULNESS. 

He's true to God who's true to man. 

1550 Jas. Bussell Lowell : On Capt. of Fugitive Slaves. St. 7 
FALL. 

Some falls are means the happier to arise. 

1551 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

FALSITY — see Deceit, Hypocrisy, Lies. 
As false 
As air, as water, as wiud, as sandy earth; 
As fox to lamb; as wolf to heifer's calf; 
Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son. 

1552 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Had she been true, 

If Heaven would make me such another world 
Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, 
I'd not have sold her for it. 

1553 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Falsehood and fraud shoot up in every soil, 

The product of all climes. 

1554 Addison : Goto. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

FAME — see Glory, Honor, Reputation. 
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
Live register' cl upon our brazen tombs. 

1555 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Then shall our names 

Familiar in his mouth as household words, 



Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. 

1556 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. 

1557 Shaks. : Titus A. Act i. Sc. 2. 



FAME. 167 

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ; 
For now he lives in fame, though not in life. 

1558 Shaks. : Eichard III. Act iii. Sc. L 
Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 

We write in water. 

1559 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
The evil that men do lives after them ; 

The good is oft interred with their bones. 

1560 Shaks. : Jul. Caisar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Better to leave undone, than by our deed 

Acquire too high a fame, when him we serve's away. 

15G1 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

What shall I do to be forever known, 
And make the age to come my own? 

1562 Cowley: Motto. 
Tame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed, 

And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds : 
On both his wings, one black, the other white, 
Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight. 

1563 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 971. 
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 

(That last infirmity of noble mind) 
To scorn delights and live laborious clays ; 
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 
And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 
And slits the thin-spun life. 

1564 Milton : Lycidas. Line 70. 
There is a tall long-sided dame, — 

But wondrous light — ycleped Fame, 
That like a thin chameleon boards 
Herself on air, and eats her words ; 
Upon her shoulders wings she wears 
Like hanging sleeves, lin'd thro' with ears, 
And eyes, and tongues, as poets list, 
Made good by deep mythologist. 
With these she through the welkin flies, 
And sometimes carries truth, oft lies. 

1565 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 45. 
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, 

The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind ; 
Or, ravished with the whistling of a name, 
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame ! 

1566 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 281. 
What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, 

A thing beyond us, even before our death. 

1567 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 237 



168 FAME. 

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 

I lisp'd iu numbers, for the numbers came. 

1568 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 127. 
Nor fame I slight, nor for her favors call : 

She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all. 

1569 Pope: Temple of Fame. Line 518. 
Men the most infamous are fond of fame ; 

And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. 

1570 Churchill : The Author. Line 233. 
Fame is a public mistress, none enjoys, 

But, more or less, his rival's peace destroys. 

1571 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 25. 
With fame, in just proportion, envy grows ; 

The man that makes a character, makes foes. 

1572 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 27. 
For what is fame 

But the benignant strength of One, transformed 
To joy of Many? 

1573 George Eliot : Armgart. Sc. 1. 
There was a morning when I longed for fame , 

There was a noontide when I passed it by, 
There is an evening when I think not shame 
Its substance and its being to deny; 
Eor if men bear in mind great deeds, the name 
Of him that wrought them shall they leave to die ; 
Or if his name they shall have deathless writ, 
They change the deeds that first ennobled it. 

1574 Jean Ingelow : The Staj-'s Monument. St. 81. 
He left a name, at which the world grew pale, 

To point a moral, or adorn a tale. 

1575 Dr. Johnson: Van. of Hum. Wishes. Line 221. 
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame 

Die fast away : only themselves die faster. 
The far-fam'd sculptor and the laurell'd bard, 
Those bold iusurancers of deathless fame, 
Supply their little feeble aids in vain. 

1576 Blair : Grave. Line 185. 
Sepulchral columns wrestle, but in vain, 

With all-subduing time ; his caukering hand 
With calm, deliberate malice wasteth them : 
Worn on the edge of days, the brass consumes, 
The busto moulders, and the deep-cut marble, 
Unsteady to the steel, gives up its charge. 

1577 Blair : Grave. Line 200. 
Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 

The steep where Eame's proud temple shines afar? 

1578 Beattie : Minstrel. Bk. i. St. 1. 



FAME. 169 

Fame is the thirst of youth, — but I am not 
80 young as to regard men's frown or smile, 
As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot ; 
I stood and stand alone, remember'd or forgot. 

1579 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 112. 
I awoke one morning and found myself famous. 

1580 Byron : From his Life by Moore. Chap. xiv. 
The drying up a single tear has more 

Of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. 

1581 Byron : Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 3. 
What is the end of fame? 'tis but to fill 

A certain portion of uncertain paper; 

Some liken it to climbing up a hill, 

Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapor; 

For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, 

And bards burn what they call their " midnight taper," 

To have, when the original is dust, 

A name, a wretched picture, aud worse bust. 

1582 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 218. 
'Tis as a snowball, which derives assistance 

From every flake, and yet rolls on the same, 
Even till an iceberg it may chance to grow ; 
But after all 'tis nothing out cold snow. 

1583 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 100. 
What of them is left, to tell 

Where they lie, and how they fell? 

Not a stone on their turf, nor a bone in their graves ; 

But they live in the verse that immortally saves. 

1584 Byron : Siege of Corinth. St. 25. 
Who grasp'd at earthly fame, 

Grasp'd wind ; nay worse, a serpent grasp'd, that through 
His hand slid smoothly, and was gone ; but left 
A sting behind which wrought him endless pain. 

1585 Pollok : Course of Time. Bk. iii. Line 533. 
Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes 

Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality. 

1586 Joaquin Miller : Ina. Sc. 4. 
Fame is the fragrance of heroic deeds. 

1587 Longfellow : Tales of a Wayside Inn. Bell of A. Line 113. 
Lives of great men all remind us 

We can make our lives sublime, 
And departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time ; — 
Footprints, that perhaps another, 
Sailing o'er life's solemn main, 
A forlorn and shipwreck'cl brother, 
Seeing, shall take heart again. 

1588 Longfellow: Psalm of Life, 



170 FAMILIARITY— FARE WELL. 

FAMILIARITY. 

The man that hails you Tom or Jack, 

And proves by thumps upon your back 

How he esteems your merit, 

Is such a friend that one had need 

Be very much his friend indeed 

To pardon or to bear it. 

1589 Cowper: Friendship. S& 29 

FAMILY. 
A lady with her daughters or her nieces, 
Shine like a guinea and seven-shilling pieces. 

1590 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 60. 

FANCY — see Imagination. 
Tell me, where is fancy bred ; 
Or in the heart, or in the head? 
How begot, how nourished? 
Reply, reply. 

It is engendered in the eyes, 
With gazing fed : and fancy dies 
In the cradle where it lies. 

1591 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. Song. 
The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, 

And these are of them. 

1592 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Two meanings have our lightest fautasies, 

One of the flesh, and of the spirit one. 

1593 James Russell Lowell : Sonnet xxxiv. Ed. 1844. 

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, 
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. 

1594 Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 118. 
Woe to the youth whom fancy gains, 

Winning from Reason's hand the reins, 
Pity and woe ! for such a mind 
Is soft, contemplative, and kind. 

1595 Scott : Rokeby. Canto i. St. 31. 

FAREWELL — see Adieu, Haste, Parting-. 
Farewell ! Farewell ! Through keen delights 
It strikes two hearts, this word of woe. 
Through every joy of life it smites, — 
Why, sometime they will know. 

1596 Mary Clemmer: Farewell. 
Farewell ! The lonely Avord that parts 

Binds two in silence ever fast ; 

Each throbs to each, these sundered hearts, 

One in the sacred past. 

1597 Mary Clemmer: Farewell 






FAREWELL. 171 

Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness I 
This is the state of man ; To-day he puts forth 
The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him : 
The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; 
And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely 
His greatness is a-ripening, — nips his root, 
And then he falls, as I do. 

1598 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2 
Fare thee well ; 

The elements be kind to thee, and make 
Thy spirits all of comfort. 

1599 Shaks. : Ant. and Gleo. Act iii. Sc. 2 
Farewell ! if ever fondest prayer 

For others' weal avail'd on high, 
Mine will not all be lost in air. 
But waft thy name beyond the sky. 

1600 Byron: Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer. 

Let's not unman each other — part at once ; 
All farewells should be sudden, when forever, 
Else they make an eternity of moments, 
And clog the last sad sands of life. with tears. 

1601 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Farewell ! 

For in that word, — that fatal word, — howe'er 

We promise — hope — believe, — there breathes despair. 

1602 Byron : Corsair. Canto i. St. 15. 
Then fare thee well, deceitful maid, 

'Twere vain and fruitless to regret thee ; 
Nor hope nor memory yield their aid, 
But time may teach me to forget thee. 

1603 Byron : To a Lady. 
One struggle more, and I am free 

From pangs that rend my heart in twain ; 
One last long sigh to love and thee, 
Then back to busy life again. 

1604 Byron : One Struggle More and I am Free. 
Fare thee well ! and if for ever, 

Still for ever, fare thee well : 
Even though unforgiving, never 
'Gainst thee shall my heart rebel. 

1605 Byron: Fare Thee Well. 
Here's a sigh to those who love me, 

And a smile to those who hate ; 
And. whatever sky's above me, 
Here's a heart for ev'ry fate. 

1606 Byron : To Tom Moore 



172 FAREWELL — FATE. 

Farewell ! a word that must be, aud hath been : 
A sound which makes us linger ; — yet — farewell ! 

1607 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 1861 

FASHION — see Dress. 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. 

1608 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, 
The observed of all observers ! 

1609 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1 

Nothing is thought rare 
Which is not new and followed : yet we know 
That what was worn some twenty years ago 
Comes into grace again. 

1610 Beaumont and Fletcher. Prologue to Noble Gent. 

And as the French we conquer'd once, 
Now give us laws for pantaloons, 
The length of breeches, and the gathers, 
Port-cannons, perriwigs, and feathers. 

1611 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 923, 

, Be not the first by whom the new is tried, 
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 

16i2 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 135. 

Fashion, a word which knaves and fools may use, 
Their knavery and folly to excuse. 

1613 Churchill : Rosciad. Line 455. 

PATE— see Fortune, Futurity, Providence. 
What fates impose, that men must needs abide; 
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 

1614 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

1615 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2. 
He must needs go that the devil drives. 

1616 Shaks. : All's Well. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Success, the mark no mortal wit, 

Or surest hand, can always hit; 
For whatsoe'er we perpetrate, 
We do but row — w'are steer'd by fate, 
Which in success oft disinherits, 
For spurious causes, noblest merits. 

1617 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 877 
All human things are subject to decay, 

And when fate summons, monarchs must obev. 

1618 Dryden : MacFlecknoe. Line 1 



FATE. 173 

Whatever is, is in its causes just, 
Since all things are by fate ; but purblind man 
Sees but a part o' th' chain, — the nearest link, 
His eyes not carrying to that equal beam 
That poises all above. 

1619 Dryden : CEdipus. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Whate'er betides, by destiny 'tis done, 

And better bear like men, than vainly seem to shun. 

1620 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. i. Line 249. 
Those whom God to ruin has design'd, 

He tits for fate, and first destroys their mind. 

1621 Dryden : Hind and Panther. Pt. iii. Line 2387. 

Fate holds the strings, and Men like Children, move 
But as they're led : Success is from above. 

1622 Lord Lansdowne : Heroic Love. Act v. Sc. 1. 
This clay we fashion Destiny, our web of Fate we spin. 

1623 Whiitier : The Crisis. St. 10. 

"Who can answer where any road leads to? 

1624 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. i. Canto vi. St. 21. 

Alas, by what rude fate 

Our lives, like ships at sea, are instant meet, 

Then part forever on their courses fleet ! 

1625 E. C. Stedman : Blameless Prince. St. 51. 

Fulfil thy fate ! Be — do — bear — and thank God. 

1626 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Heaven. 
The heart is its own 

Fate. 

1627 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Wood and Water. 

Man, tho' limited 
By fate, may vainly think his actions free, 
While all he does, was at his hour of birth, 
Or by his gods, or potent stars ordain'cl. 

1628 Rowe : Boyal Convert. Act i. Sc. L 

Heaven from all creatures hides the Book of Fate, 
All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : 
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know; 
Or who could suffer being here below? 
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, 
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? 
Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food, 
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 
Oh ! blindness to the future ! kindly given, 
That each may fill the circle mark'd by heav'n, 
Who sees, with equal eye, as God of all, 
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall. 

1629 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 77 



174 FATE — FATHER. 

Seek not thou to find 
The sacred counsels of almighty mind ; 
Involv'd in darkness lies the great decree, 
Nor can the depths of fate be pierc'd by thee. 

1630 Pope : Iliad. Bk. i. Line 704 

My fate depends alone on you, 
I am but what you make me : 
Divinely blest if you prove true, 
Undone if you forsake me. 

1631 Bohn: Ms. 

Pate steals along with silent tread, 
round of tenest in what least we dread ; 
Frowns in the storm with angry brow, • 
But in the sunshine strikes the blow. 

1632 Coivper: Baven. Line 36. 

O beautiful, awful Summer day, 
What hast thou given, what taken away? 
Life and death, and love and hate, 
Homes made happy or desolate, 
Hearts made sad or gay ! 

1633 Longfellow: Sundown. 

All are architects of Fate, 
Working in these walls of Time : 
Some with massive deeds and great, 
Some with ornaments of rhyme. 

1634 Longfellow: The Builders. St. 1. 
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, 
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness ; 
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another, 
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. 

1635 Longfellow : T. of a Wayside Inn. Elizabeth. Pt. iv. 
He must needs go that the devil drives. 

1636 George Peele : Edward I. 
Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. 

1637 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz. Line 199. 
I Things are where things are, and, as fate has willed, 

So shall they be fulfilled. 

1638 Robert Browning : Agamemnon, 

FATHER— see Child, Mother, Parents. 
It is a wise father that knows his own child. 

1639 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Methinks a father 

Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest 
That best becomes the table. 
1610 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



FA THER — FA I "OR. 1 75 

To you your father should be as a god ; 

One that corapos'd your beauties ; yea, and one, 

To whom you are but as a form in wax, 

By him imprinted, and within his power 

To leave the figure, or disfigure it. 

1641 Shaks. : Mid. JV. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind : 

But fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind. 

1642 Shahs. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
If there be a human tear 

From passion's dross refin'd and clear, 



'Tis that which pious fathers shed 
Upon a duteous daughter's head. 

1643 Scott : Lady of the Lake. Canto ii. St. 22. 
The child is father of the man. 

1644 Wordsworth : My Heart Leaps Up. Line 7. 

FAULTS — see Error. 

Oftentimes excusing of a fault 
Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse ; 
As patches, set upon a little breach, 
Discredit more, in hiding of the fault, 
Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. 

1645 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Eoses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; 

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun ; 
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud; 
All men make faults. 

1646 Shaks. : Sonnet xxxv. 
In other men we faults can spy, 

And blame the mote that dims their eye; 
Each little speck and blemish find : 
To our own stronger errors blind. 

1647 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable xxxviii. 

FAVOR. 
Who builds his hope in air of your good looks, 
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ; 
Ready, with every nod, to tumble clown 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 

1648 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Poor wretches, that depend 

On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; 
Wake, and find nothing. But, alas, I swerve. 
Many dream not to find, neither deserve, 
And yet are steep'd in favors. 

1649 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act v. Sc, 4. 



176 FAVOR — FEAR. 

'Tis the curse of service ; 
Preferment goes by letter, and affection, 
And not by old gradation, where each second 
Stood heir to the first. 

1650 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. L 
'Tis ever thus when favors are denied ; 

All had been granted but the thing we beg; 
And still some great unlikely substitute, 
Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good, 
Is proffer'd in the room of one small boon. 

1651 Joanna Baillie : Basil. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

FAWNING — see Flattery, Hypocrisy. 

And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. 

1652 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
You play the spaniel, 

And think with wagging of your tongue to win me. 

1653 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. 

FEAR — see Alarm, Danger. 
In time we hate that which we often fear. 

1654 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act i. Sc. 3. 
What read you there 

That hath so cowarded and chased your blood 
Out of appearance? 

1655 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, 
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, 
Against the use of nature ? 

1656 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Why, what should be the fear? 

I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; 

And, for my soul, what can it do to that, 

Being a thing immortal as itself? 

1657 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. 
When our actions do not, 

Our fears do make us traitors. 

1658 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Those linen cheeks of thine 

Are counsellors to fear. 

1659 Shaks. : 3Iacbeth. Act v. Sc. 3c 
There is not such a word 

Spoke of in Scotland, as this term of fear. 

1660 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd. 

1661 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act v, Sc. 2 



FEAR — FEELING. 177 

So, though he posted e'er so fast, 
His fear was greater than his haste ; 
For fear, though fleeter than the wind, 
Believes 'tis always left behind. 

1G62 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 63. 

The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, 
And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. 
But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, 
And horror heavy sat on every mind. 

1663 Dryden : TJieodore and Honoria. Line 336. 

Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, 
Weak and unmanly, loosens ev'ry power. 

1661 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 286. 

Must I consume my life — this little life, 
In guarding against all may make it less? 
It is not worth so much ! — it were to die 
Before my hour, to live in dread of death. 

1665 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 1. 
"Lis well, my soul shakes off its load of care ; 

'Tis only the obscure is terrible, 
Imagination frames events unknown, 
In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, 
And what it fears creates. 

1666 Hannah More : Belshazzar. Pt. i. 

FEASTING — see Dinner. 

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, 
Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. 

1667 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Their various cares in one great point combine 

The business of their lives, that is — to dine. 

1668 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iii. Line 75. 
Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd, 

Where alJ the ruddy family around 

Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, 

Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale. 

1669 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 17. 

FEELING. 
The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 
Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell, 
And feeling hearts — touch them but lightly — pour 
A thousand melodies unheard before. 

1670 Bogers : Human Life. 
The deepest ice which ever froze 

Can only o'er the surface close ; 
The living stream lies quick below, 
And flows, and cannot cease to flow. 

1671 Byron: Parisina. St. 20. 



FEELING — FICTION. 



But spite of all the critieising elves, 
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. 
1072 Churchill : Bosciad. Line 961. 

Their cause I plead, — plead it in heart and mind, 
A fellow-feeling- makes one wondrous kind. 

1673 Garrick: Prologue on Quitting the Stage. June, 1776. 

Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the 

surface 
Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is 

hidden. 

1674 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. Second, ii. Line 112. 

FEET — see Dancing. 
Like snails did creep her pretty feet 
A little out, and then, 
As if they played at bo-peep, 
Did soon draw in again. 

1675 Herrick: Aph. Upon Her Feet. 

A foot more light, a step more true, 
Ne'er from the heath-flow'r dash'd the dew ; 
Ev'n the slight harebell raised its head, 
Elastic from her airy tread. 

1676 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto i. St. 18, 

FICKLENESS— see Deceit, Flirtation. 
A man so various, that he seem'd to be 
Not one, but all mankind's epitome : 
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong; 
Was everything by starts, and nothing long ; 
But, in the course of one revolving moon, 
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon : 
Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, 
Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking. 

1677 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 545, 

Papillia, wedded to her amorous spark, 

Sighs for the shades — " How charming is a park? " 

A park is purchas'd, but the fair he sees 

All bath'd in tears — " O odious, odious trees ! " 

1678 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 37 

FICTION— see Books. 

When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, 
Men will believe, because they love the lie ; 
But truth herself, if clouded with a frown, 
Must have some solemn proof to pass her down. 

1679 Churchill : Epis. to Hogarth. Line 291 



FIDELITY. 179 

FIDELITY — see Constancy, Faith. 
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; 
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; 
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart ; 
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth. 

1680 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 7, 
Master, go on, and I will follow thee 

To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. 

1681 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Unkindness may do much ; 

And his unkinclness may defeat my life, 
But never taint my love. 

1682 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Well hast thou fought 

The better fight, who single hast maintain'd 
Against revolted multitudes the cause 
Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms ; 
And, for the testimony of truth, hast borne 
Universal reproach, far worse to bear 
Than violence. 

1683 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vi. Line 29. 
Faithful found 

Among the faithless, faithful only he ; 

Among innumerable false, unmov'd, 

Unshaken, unseduc'd, unterrified 

His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal; 

Nor number, nor example, with him wrought 

To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind. 

1684 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 896. 
Flesh of flesh, 

Bone of my bone, thou art, and from thy state 
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. 

1685 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 914. 
Through perils both of wind and limb, 

Through thick and thin she follow'd him. 

1686 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 369. 
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. 

1687 Henry Vaughan : Pules and Lessons. St. 8. 
Where is honor, 

Innate and precept-strengthen'd, 'tis the rock 
Of faith connubial : where it is not — where 
Light thoughts are lurking, or the vanities 
Of worldly pleasure rankle in the heart, 
Or sensual throbs convulse it. 

1688 Byron : Mir. Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Years have not seen, Time shall not see, 

The hour that tears my soul from thee. 

1689 Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 1L 



180 FIDELITY— FLAGS. 

Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, 

Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, 

Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, 

Like faiiy-gif ts fading away ! 

Thou would'st still be ador'cl, as this moment thou art, 

Let tlvy loveliness fade as it will, 

And, around the dear ruin, each wish of my heart 

Would entwine itself verdantly still ! 

1G90 Moore: Believe 3Ie if All Those, etc. 

FIGHTING — see Battle, Duelling-. 

I'll light, till from my bones my flesh be hack'd. 

1691 Shaks. : JTacbeth. Act v. Sc, 3. 
With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, 

Hard crabtree and old iron rang ; 
While none that saw them could divine 
To which side conquest would incline. 

1692 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 831. 
Those who in quarrels interpose, 

Must often wipe a bloody nose. 

1693 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 34. 
He who fights and runs away, 

May live to fight another day; 
But he who is in battle slain 
Can never rise and fight again. 

1694 Goldsmith : Art of Poetry. 
The combat deepens. On, ye brave, 

Who rush to glory, or the grave ! 

1695 Campbell : Hohenlinden. St. 7. 
FIRES. 

Fire, that's closest kept, burns most of all. 

1696 Shales. : Tivo Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 2. 
FLAGS. 

When Freedom from her mountain height 
Unfurled her standard to the air, 
She tore the azure robe of night, 
And set the stars of glory there. 
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes 
The milky baldric of the skies, 
And striped its pure, celestial white, 
With streakings of the morning light. 
Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! 
By angel hands to valor given ; 
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 
And all thy hues were born in heaven. 
Forever float that standard sheet ! 
Where breathes the foe but falls before us, 
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er u-'? 

1697 Joseph Rodman Brake : The American Flag. 



FLA GS — FLA TTER Y. 181 

A song for our banner? The watchword recall 

Which gave the Republic her station : 

" United we stand — divided we fall ! " 

It made and preserves us a nation ! 

The union of lakes — the union of lands — 

The union of States none can sever — 

The union of hearts — the union of hands — 

And the Flag of our Union forever ! 

1698 George P. Morris : Flag of Our Union 
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! 

Long has it waved on high, 

And many an eye has danced to see 

That banner in the sky. 

1699 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Metrical Essay. 
Who forthwith from the glittering staff unf url'd 

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd 
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. 

1700 Milton : Far. Lost. Bk. i. Line 535. 
The meteor flag of England 

Shall yet terrific burn, 

Till danger's troubled night depart, 

And the star of peace return. 

1701 Campbell: Mariners of England,. 

FLATTERY — see Courtship. 
By heav'n I cannot flatter : I do defy 
The tongues of soothers ; but a braver place 
In my heart's love, hath no man than yourself; 
Nay, task me to my word ; approve me, lord. 

1702 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Do not think I flatter, 

For what advancement may I hope from thee, 

That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, 

To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? 

1703 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. 

1701 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

O, that men's ears should be 

To counsel deaf, but not to flattery ! 

1705 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident; 

Or Jove for his power to thunder. 

1706 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
You are meek, and humble-mouth'd : 

You sign your place and calling, in full seeming, 
With meekness and humility : but your heart 
Is cramm'd with arrogancy, spleen, and pride. 

1707 Shaks. : Hairy VIII. Act ii. Sc. 4 



182 FLATTER Y— FLIRTATION. 

Xo vizor does become black villany 
So well as soft and tender flattery. 

1708 Skaks. : Pericles. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
When I tell him he hates flatterers, 

IB- says he does, being then most flatter'd. 

1709 Shaks.: Jul. Ccesar. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant ; 
And of all tame — a flatterer. 

1710 Ben Jonson : Sejanus. Act i. Sc. 2 
Leave flattery to fulsome dedicators. 

Whom when they praise the world believes no more, 
Than when they promise to give scribbling o'er. 

1711 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 33. 
But flattery never seems absurd ; 

The flatter'd always take your word. 

Impossibilities seem just, 

They take the strongest praise on trust ; 

Hyperboles, tho' ne'er so great, 

Will still come short of self-conceit. 

1712 Gap : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 18. 
'Tis an old maxim in the schools. 

That flattery's the food of fools ; 
Yet. now and then, your men of wit 
Will condescend to take a bit. 

1713 Swift: Cade nus and Vanessa. Line 755. 

Of folly, vice, disease, men proud we see : 
And, (stranger still,) of blockheads' flattery: 
Whose praise defames : as if a fool should mean. 
By spitting on your face, to make it clean. 

1714 Young: Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 89. 
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, 

And the puff of a dunce, he mistook it for fame : 
Till his relish sjrown callous, almost to disease. 
Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. 

1715 Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 109. 
Who flatters is of all mankind the lowest. 

Save he who courts the flattery. 

1716 Hannah. More: Daniel. Pt. iii. 

FLIRTATION — .^;? Coquette, Fickleness. 
Xever wedding, ever wooing. 
Still a love-lorn heart pursuing, 
Bead you not the wrong you're doing, 
In my cheek's pale hue? 
All my life with sorrow strewing, 
Wed. or cease to woo. 

1717 Campbell: JIaid's Remonstrance. 



FLIRT A TIOX—FLO WERS. 183 

The trifling of his favors, 
Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood; 
A violet in the youth of primy nature, 
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting. 
The perfume and suppliance of a minute : 
Xo more. 

1718 Slinks.: Hamlet, Act i, Sc. 3 
How happy could I be with either, 

Were t'other dear charmer away ! 
But, while ye thus tease me together. 
To neither a word will I say. 

1719 Gay: Beggar's Opera. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
FLOWERS. 

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : 

It fell upon a little western flower, — 

Before, milk-white; now purple with loA'e's wound. — 

And maidens call it love-in-idleness. 

Fetch me that flower; the herb I show'd thee once : 

The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid, 

Will make or man or woman madly dote 

Upon the next live creature that it sees. 

1720 Shahs. : Mid. X Dream. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows. 

Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; 
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine. 
With sweet musk-roses, and with e»iantine. 

1721 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
The gentle race of flowers 

Are lying in their lowly beds. 

1722 " William Cullen Bryant: Death of the Flowers. 

Flowers spring up 
Unsown, and die ungathered. 

1723 William Cullen Bryant: Antiquity of Freedom, 
Whence come the beauteous progeny of spring ! 

— They hear a still, small voice. ' ; Awake ! " 

And while the lark is on the wing, 

From dust and darkness break ; 

Flowers of all hues 

Laugh in the gale, 

Sparkle with dew-. 

And dance o'er hill and dale. 

1724 James Montgomery : In Mem. of Rev. Jas. Harvey. 
A< timid violets lade the ambient air 

With their heart's richest fragrance, unaware 
The fragrance whispers that the flower is there. 

1725 Anna Katharine Green : Isabel Maynor. 
Flowers preach to us if we will hear. 

1726 Chris. G. Rossetti : Consider the Lilies of the Field. 



184 FLOW r ERS — FOLL Y. 

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, 
One who dwelleth by the eastled Rhine, 
When lie called the flowers, so blue and golden, 
Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. 

1727 Longfellow : Flov:ers 
Majr-flowers blooming around him. 

Fragrant, filling the air with a strange and wonderful 
sweetness. 

1728 Longfellow : Courtship of 31. Standish. Pt. iii. Line 26. 

Thanks to the human heart, by which we live, 
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys and fears, 
To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

1729 Wordsworth: Lntimations of Lmmortality. St. 11. 

These children of the meadows, born 
Of sunshine and of showers ! 

1730 Whittier : Flov'ers in Winter. 

In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, 
And they tell in a garland their loves and cares ; 
Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers 
On its leaves a mystic language bears. 

1731 J. G. Percival: Language of the Flowers. 

In every flower that blooms around, 
Some pleasing emblem we may trace ; 
Young love is in the myrtle found, 
And memory in the pansy's grace. 
Peace in the olive-branch we see, 
Hope in the half -shut iris glows, 
In the bright laurel victory ! 
And loA r ely woman in the rose. 

1732 Chazet: 31s. 

FOE — see Enemy, Friendship. 

Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, 
A timorous foe and a suspicious friend. 

1733 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 205. 

Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, 
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. 

1734 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 283. 

He makes no friend who never made a foe. 

1735 Tennyson: Elaine. Line 1083. 

Wits are safe things ; there's danger in a fool. 

1736 Churchill : The Journey. Line 98. 

FOLLY. 

Fools, to talking ever prone, 
Are sure to make their follies known. 

1737 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 44 



FOLLY. 18$ 

This fellow is wise enough to play the fool, 
And to do that well craves a kind of wit 

173S Shaks. : Tic. Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Either thou art most ignorant by age. 
Or thou wert born a fool. 

1739 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
In his brain — 

Which is as dry as the remainder-biscuit 
After a voyage — he hath strange places cramm'd 
With observation, the which he vents 
In mangled forms. 

1740 Shaks. : As You Like Lt. Act ii. Sc. 7. 



That such a crafty devil as is his mother 
Should yield the world this ass ! a woman, that 
Bears all down with her brain ; and this her son 
Cannot take two from twenty for his heart, 
And leave eighteen. 

1741 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act ii. Sc. 

She was a wight, — if ever such wights were. — 



To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. 

1742 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Every inch that is not fool, is rogue. 

1743 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. ii. Line 463. 
The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes 

And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. 

1744 Dryden : Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 107. 
Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt. 

A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out : 
His passion for absurdity's so strong, 
He cannot bear a rival in the wrong. 

1745 Young : Loce of Fame. Satire iv. Line 105. 
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. 

1746 Young : Xight Thoughts. Night iv. Line 842. 
'Tis hard if all is false that I advance. 

A fool must now and then be right by chance. 

1747 Cowper: Conversation. Line 95. 
A shallow brain behind a serious mask, 

An oracle within an empty cask ; 



He says but little, and that little said 
Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead. 
His wit invites you by his looks to come, 
But when you knock it never is at home. 

1748 Cowper : Conversation. Line 297 



186 FOLLY— FOREST. 

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, 
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 

1749 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 15. 
No creature smarts so little as a fool. 

1750 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 84. 

FOP —see Coxcomb, Dandy. 

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, 
Just as one beauty mortifies another. 

1751 Pope: Satire viii. Line 258. 
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 

As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 

1752 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 315. 
No place so sacred from such fops is barr'd, 

Nor is Paul's church more safe than Paul's church-yard : 
Nay, fty to altars ; there they'll talk you dead; 
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 

1753 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 62. 

FORBEARANCE. 

Be to her virtues very kind; 
Be to her faults a little blind. 
Let all her ways be unconfin'd, 
And clap your padlock on her mind. 

1754 Prior : English Padlock. Line 78. 
The kindest and the happiest pair 

Will find occasion to forbear ; 

And something, every day the}' live, 

To pity, and perhaps forgive. 

1755 Cooper: Mutual Forbearance. 
Who overcomes 

By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 

1756 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 648. 

FORESIGHT — see Futurity. 

Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming events cast their shadows before. 

1757 Campbell: LochieVs Warning. Line 55. 

FOREST. 

Summer or winter, day or night, 

The woods are au ever-new delight; 

They give us peace, and they make us strong, 

Such wonderful balms to them belong : 

So, living or dying, I'll take mine ease 

Under the trees, under the trees. 

1758 B- H. Stoddard : Under the Trees 

This is the forest primeval. 

1759 Longfellow: Evangeline. Introduction. 






FOREST — FORMALIT Y. 187 

Naked lay, in sunshine glowing, 
Hills that once had stood 
Down their sides the shadows throwing 
Of a mighty wood. 

1760 Whittier : The Fountain. St. 13 
FORGETFULNESS. 

Like a dull actor now, 
I have forgot my part, and I am out, 
Even to a full disgrace. 

1761 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3. 
FORGIVENESS — see Mercy, Pardon. 

Let us no more contend, nor blame 
Each other, blam'd enough elsewhere, but strive 
In offices of love, how we may lighten 
Each other's burden, in our share of woe. 

1762 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 958. 
Pardon, not "Wrath, is God's best attribute. 

1763 Bayard Taylor: Tempt, of Hassan Ben Khaled. St. 11. 
Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts : 

Old age is slow in both. 

1761 Addison : Cato. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Good-nature and good sense must ever joiu; 
To err is human, to forgive divine. 

1765 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 321. 
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. 

1766 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Home. 

ye good women, it is hard to leave 
The paths of virtue, and return again. 
What if this sinner wept, and none of you 
Comforted her? . . . But I beseech 
Your patience. Once in old Jerusalem 

A woman kneeled at consecrated feet, 

Kissed them, and washed them with her tears. What then? 

1 think that yet our Lord is pitiful : 
I think I see the castaway e'en now ! 

1767 Jean Ingelovj : Brothers and a Sermon. Line 696. 
Good, to forgive ; 

Best to forget ! 

1768 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz. Prologue. 
I do think that you might pardon him, 

And neither Heaven, nor man, grieve at the niercy. 

1769 Shaks. : M. for 31. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
FORMALITY — see Quakers. 

Oh, I see thee old and formal, fitted to thy petty part, 
With a little hoard of maxims preaching clown a daughter's 
heart ! 

1770 Tennyson : Locksley Hall. St. 47 



188 FORMALITY— FORTUNE. 

There are a sort of men, whose visages 
Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; 
And do a wilful stillness entertain, 
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion 
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; 
As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, 
And, when I ope my lips, let no clog bark! " 

1771 Shales. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1 

FORTITUDE. 

True fortitude is seen in great exploits 

That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides ; 

All else is tow'ring frenzy and distraction. 

1772 Addison : Cato. Act ii Sc. 1. 
Existence may be borne, and the deep root 

Of life and sufferance make its firm abode 
In bare and desolate bosoms : mute 
The camel labors with the heaviest load, 
And the wolf dies in silence : Not bestow'd 
In vain should such examples be ; if they, 
Things of ignoble or of savage mood, 
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay 
May temper it to bear — it is but for a clay. 

1773 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 21. 
A minute past, and she had been all tears, 

And tenderness, and infancy ; but now 

She stood as one who champion'cl human fears : — 

Pale, statue-like, and stern, she woo'cl the blow. 

1774 Byron: Bon Juan. Canto iv. St. 43. 

FORTUNE — .see Decision, Misfortune, Unfortunate. 

This accident and flood of fortune 
So far exceed all instance, all discourse, 
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes, 
And wrangle with my reason, that persuades me 
To any other trust. 

1775 Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
"Will fortune never come with both hands full, 

But write her fair words still in foulest letters? 
She either gives a stomach, and no food, — 
Such as are the poor in health ; or else a feast, 
And takes away the stomach, — such are the rich, 
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 

1776 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act iv. Sc. 4. 
Siuce you will buckle fortune on my back, 

To bear her burthen, whe'r I will, or no, 
I must have patience to endure the load. 

1777 Shaks.: Richard III. Act iii. Sc 7 



FORTUNE. 189 

When Fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 

1778 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Fortune is merry, 

And in this mood will give us anything. 

1779 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Bless'd are those 

"Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, 
That the}" are not a pipe for fortune's finger, 
To sound what stop she please. 

1780 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, 

Hath divers ways t' enrich her followers : 

To some she honor gives without deserving; 

To other some, deserving without honor; 

Some, wit — some, wealth — and some, wit without wealth ; 

Some, wealth without wit — some, nor wit nor wealth. 

1781 Chapman : All Fools. 
I am not now in Fortune's power, 

He that is down can fall no lower. 

1782 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 877. 
His only solace was, that now 

His dog-bolt fortune was so low, 
That either it must quickly end 
Or turn about again, and mend. 

1783 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 39. 
Fortune in men has some small difference made, 

One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. 

1781 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 195. 

Who thinks that Fortune cannot change her mind, 
Prepares a dreadful jest for all mankind. 

1785 Pope: Satire ii. Line 123. 
Alas ! the joys that fortune brings 

Are trifling, and decay. 

And those who prize the trifling things, 

More trifling still than they. 

1786 Goldsmith : Edwin and Angelina. St. 18. 
All our advantages are those of fortune ; 

Birth, wealth, health, beauty, are her accidents ; 
And when we cry out against Fate, 'twere well 
We should remember Fortune can take nought 
Save what she gave. 

1787 Byron: Two Foscari. Act ii. Sc. 1 
Fortune is female : from my youth her favors 

Were not withheld, the fault was mine to hope 
Her former smiles again at this late hour. 

1788 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act v. Sc. 1 



190 FORTUNE — FRANCE. 

Who would trust slipp'ry chance? — 

They that would make 

Themselves her spoil, and foolishly forget 

When she doth natter, that she comes to prey. 

Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men 

Had wisdom ; we have placed thee so high, 

By fond belief in thy felicitj'. 

1789 Ben Jonson : Sejanus. Act v. Sc. 10. 
All human projects are so faintly fram'd, 

So feebly piann'd, so liable to change, 
So mix'd with error in their very form, 
That mutable and mortal are the same. 

1790 Hannah More: Daniel. Pt. v. 
FORTUNE-TELLER — see Gipsy. 

Curse on your shallow arts, your lying science ! 
'Tis thus you practise on the credulous world, 
Who think you wise because themselves are weak ! 

1791 Hannah More : Belshazzar. Pt. ii. 
FRAILTY — see Woman. 

Frailty, thy name is Woman ! 

1792 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, 

Though to itself it only live and die ; 

But if that flower with base infection meet, 

The basest weed outbraves his dignity : 

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds ; 

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds. 

1793 Shaks. : Sonnet xciv. 
When lovely woman stoops to folly, 

And finds too late that men betray, 
What charm can soothe her melancholy, 
What art can wash her guilt away? — 
The only art her guilt to cover, 
To hide her shame from every eye, 
To give repentance to her lover, 
And wring his bosom — is to die. 

1794 Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. xxiv. 
Weep no more, lady, weep no more, 

Thy sorrow is in vain ; 

For violets plucked, the sweetest showers 

Will ne'er make grow again. 

1795 Percy : Friar of Orders Gray. 
FRANCE. 

'Tis better using France, than trusting France ; 
Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas, 
Which he hath given for fence impregnable, 
And with their helps ouly defend ourselves ; 
In them, and in ourselves, our safetv lies. 

1796 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 1. 



FRATERNITY— FREEDOM. 191 

FRATERNITY — see Children. 
I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds 
All the world's loves in its unworldliness. 

1797 Robert Browning : Blot in the 'Scutcheon. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

FREEDOM — see Liberty. 
Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, 
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow? 

1798 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 76. 
Freedom's battle, once begun, 

Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, 
Tlio' baffled oft, is ever won. 

1799 Byron: Giaour. Line 123. 
Snatch from the ashes of your sires 

The embers of their former fires, 
And he, who in the strife expires, 
Will add to theirs a name of fear, 
That Tyranny shall quake .to hear ! 

1800 Byron: Giaour. Line 116. 
They never fail who die 

In a great cause : the block may soak their gore, 

Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs 

Be struug to city gates and castle walls ; — 

But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years 

Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, 

They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts 

Which overpower all others, and conduct 

The world at last to freedom. 

1801 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
We must be free or die, who speak the tongue 

That Shakspere spake ; the faith and morals hold 
Which Milton held. 

1802 Wordsworth : Sonnet. It is not to be thought of, etc. 
Oh, Freedom ! thou art not, as poets dream, 

A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, 
And wavy tresses gushiDg from the cap 
With which the Roman master crowned his slave 
When he took off the gyves. A bearded mau, 
Armed to the teeth, art thou ; one mailed hand 
Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, 
Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred 
With tokens of old wars. 

1803 William C idle n Bryant : Antiquity of Freedom. 
My angel, — his name is Freedom, — 

Choose him to be your king ; 

He shall cut pathways east and west, 

And fend you with his wing. 

1804 Emerson : Boston Hymn. 



192 FREEDOM — FRIENDSHIP. 

Freedom all winged expands, 

Nor perches in a narrow place; 

Her broad van seeks implanted lauds ; 

She loves a poor and virtuous race. 

Clinging to a colder zone 

Whose dark sky sheds the snow-flake clown, 

The snow-flake is her banner's star, 

Her stripes the boreal streamers are. 

Long she loved the Northman well ; 

Now the iron age is done, 

She will not refuse to dwell 

With the offspring of the Sim. 

1805 Emerson : Voluntaries. St. 2 
And lo ! the fulness of the time has come, 

And over all the exile's Western home, 

From sea to sea the flowers of freedom bloom ! 

1806 Whittier: Pennsylvania Pilgrim. St. 181. 
Then Freedom sternly said : "I shun 

No strife nor pang beneath the sun, 
When human rights are staked and won. 

1807 Whittier: TJie Watchers. 
The nations lift their right hands up, and swear 

Their oath of freedom. 

1808 Whittier: Garibaldi. 
FRENCHMEN. 

The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, 
Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, 
Is always happy, reign whoever may, 
And laughs the sense of mis'ry far awav. 

1809 " Coirper : Table Talk. Line 237. 

FRIENDLESS. 

Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise, 
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made : 
Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers, 
These flies are couched. 

1810 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. 

1811 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Deserted at his utmost need, 

By those his former bounty fed ; 
On the bare earth exposed he lies, 
With not a friend to close his eyes. 

1812 Dryden : Alex. Feast. Line 80. 

FRIENDSHIP— see Familiarity, Foe. 
I count myself in nothing else so happy, 
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends. 

1813 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act ii. Sc. 3. 



FRIENDSHIP. 193 

Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love : 
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues ; 
Let every eye negotiate for itself, 
And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch, 
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. 
1814 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

In companions 
That do converse and waste the time together, 
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love, 
There must needs be a like proportion 
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit. 

1815 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
We still have slept together, 

Eose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat together ; 
And wheresoe'er we went like Juno's swans, 
Still we went coupled, Tmd inseparable. 

1816 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Call you that backing of your friends? 

A plague upon such backing ! 

1817 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. 

1818 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
We make ourselves fools, to disport ourselves ; 

And spend our flatteries, to drink those men, 
Upon whose age we void it up again, 
With poisonous spite, and envy. 

1819 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 
I have not from your eyes that gentleness, 

And show of love, as I was wont to have : 
You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand, 
Over your friend that loves you. 

1820 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Give him all kindness : I had rather have 

Such men my friends, than enemies. 

1821 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act v. Sc. 4. 
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; 
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatch'cl unfledged comrade. 

1822 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3 
So, gentlemen, 

With all my love I do commend me to you : 
And what so poor a man as Hamlet is 
May do, to express his love and friending to you, 
God willing, shall not lack. 

1823 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5 



194 FRIENDSHIP. 

The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, 
The poor advanc'd, makes friends of enemies. 
And hitherto doth love on fortune tend ; 
For who not needs shall never lack a friend ; 
And who in want a hollow friend doth try, 
Directly seasons him his enemy. 

1824 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Thy presence sweet 

Still through long years of vigil I may share, 

For if from that enchanted spirit-land 

Thy healthful thought into my soul may shine 

(E'en though thy voice be still, and cold thy hand,) 

To lift my life and make it pure as thine ; 

Then, though thy place on earth a void must be, 

Beloved friend, thou art not dead to me. 

1825 H. H. Boyesen : Elegy on A. G-. L. 
O friend ! O best of friends ! Thy absence more 

Than the impending night darkens the landscape o'er ! 

1826 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Ft. i. 
Some tears fell down my cheeks and then I smiled, 

As those smile who have no face in the world 
To smile back to them. I had lost a friend. 

1827 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. ii. Line 799. 
A day for toil, an hour for sport, 

But for a friend life is too short. 

1828 Emerson : Considerations by the Way. 
Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine ! 

1829 Emerson : Forbearance. 
O friend, my bosom said, 

Through thee alone the sky is arched, 

Through thee the rose is red ; 

All things through thee take nobler form, 

And look beyond the earth, 

The mill-round of our fate appears 

A sun-path in thy worth. 

Me too thy nobleness has taught 

To master my despair ; 

The fountains of my hidden life 

Are through thy friendship fail*. 

1830 Emerson: Friendship. 
You'll never hope 

To be such friends, for instance, she and you, 

As when you hunted cowslips in the woods, 

Or played together in the meadow hay. 

Oh yes — with age, respect comes, and your worth 

Is felt, there's growing sympathy of tastes, 

There's ripened friendship, there's confirmed esteem. 

1831 Bobert Brovming : Blot in the ' Scutcheon. Act ii. Sc. 1 



FRIENDSHIP. 195 

Sou've my friend — 

What a thing friendship is. world without end ! 

How it gives the heart and soul a stir-up, 

As if somebody broached you a glorious runlet, 

And poured out all lovelily, sparkling, and sunlit, 

Our green Moldavia, the streaky syrup, 

Cotnar as old as the time of the Druids — 

Friendship's as good as that monarch of fluids 

To supple a dry brain, All you its ins-and-outs. 

1832 Robert Browning : Flight of the Duchess. x*t. xvu 

Hand 
Grasps hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, 
And great hearts expand, 
And grow one in the sense of this world's life. 

1833 Bobert Browning : Saul 

What joy is better than the news of friends 

Whose memories were a solace to me oft, 

As mountain-baths to wild fowls in their flight. 

1834 Bobert Browning : Paracelsus. Sfc. 3. 

A sweeter, sadder thing 
My life, for having known you ; 
Forever with my sacred kin, 
My soul's soul I must own you. 
Forever mine, my friend, 
From June to life's December ; 
Not mine to have or hold, 
But to pray for and remember. 

1835 Jlary Clemmer : Words for Parting 

Oh, what shall I do, dear, 

In coming years, I wonder, 

When our paths, which lie so sweetly near, 

Shall lie so far asunder? 

Oh, what shall I do, clear, 

Through all the sad to-morrows, 

When the sunny smile has ceased to cheer 

That smiles away my sorrows? 

1836 Mary Clemmer: Words for Parting 

What shall I do. my friend, 
When you are gone forever? 
My heart its eager need will send 
Through the years to And you never, 
And how will it be with you, 
In the weary world, I wonder, 
Will you love me with a love as true, 
When our paths lie far asunder? 

1837 Mary Clemmer : Words for Parting 



[08 FRIENDSHIP, 

The way is short, friend, 

That reaches out before us ; 

God's tender heavens above us bend, 

His love is smiling o'er us ; 

A little while is ours 

For sorrow or for laughter; 

I'll lay the hand you love in yours 

On the shore of the Hereafter. 

1838 Mary Clemmer : Words for Parting. 
True happiness 

Consists not in the multitude of friends, 
But in the worth and choice. 

1839 Ben Jonson : Cynthia's Bevels. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 

'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 
'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, 
As strong in passion is, though not so gross. 

1840 Catherine Philips : Friendship. 
Thick waters show no images of things; 

Friends are each other's mirrors, and should be 
Clearer than crystal, or the mountain-springs, 
And free from clouds, design, or flattery. 
For vulgar souls no part of friendship share ; 
Poets and friends are born to what they are. 

1841' Catherine Philips : Friendship. 

, The friendships of the world are oft 
Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure. 

1842 Addison : Cato. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, 

Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. 

1843 Addison : Campaign. Line 101. 
Who friendship with a knave hath made 

Is judg'd a partner in the trade. 

1844 Gay : Fables. Pt. L Fable 23. 
Friendship, like love, is but a name, 

Unless to one you stint the flame. 
The child, whom many fathers share, 
Hath seldom known a father's care. 
'Tis thus in friendships ; who depend 
On many, rarely find a friend. 

1845 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 50. 
'Tis thus that on the choice of friends, 

Our good or evil name depends. 

1846 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 23, 
Friends I have made, whom envy must commend, 

But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. 

1847 Churchill: Conference. Line 297 



FRIENDSHIP. 197 

k. generous friendship no cold medium knows, 
Burns with one love, with one resentment glows ; 
One should our interests and our passions be, 
My friend must hate the man that injures me. 

1848 Pope : Iliad. Bk. ix. Line 725. 
Friendship, mysterious cement of the soul, 

S^^veetener of life, and solder of society, 

1 owe thee much : thou hast deserv'd from me 

Far, far beyond what I can ever pay. 

1849 Blair : The Grave. Line 88, 
The deepest hunger of a faithful heart 

Is faithfulness. 

1850 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. v. 

First on thy friend deliberate with thyself; 
Pause, ponder, sift; not eager in the choice, 
Nor jealous of the chosen: fixing, fix; — 
Judge before friendship, then confide till death. 

1851 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 5G7. 

He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, 

For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle them back. 

1852 Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 107= 

And what is friendship but a name, 
A charm that lulls to sleep, 
A shade that follows wealth or fame, 
And leaves the wretch to weep ? 

1853 Goldsmith : Edwin and Angelina. St. 19. 

Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, 
Bold I can meet — perhaps may turn his blow ; 
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, 
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend. 

1854 Canning : New Morality. 

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, 
As they will'do like leaves at the first breeze : 
When your affairs come round, one way or 'tother, 
Go to the coffee-house, and take another. 

1855 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 48. 

Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. 
Tho' rooted in esteem's deep soil, the slow 
And gradual culture of kind intercourse 
Must bring it to perfection. 

1856 Joanna Baillie : De Monfort. Act iii. Sc. 2 
I take of worthy men whate'er they give : 

Their heart I giadly take, if not, their hand; 
If that too, is'withheld, a courteous Avord, 
Or the civility of placid looks. 

1857 Joanna Baillie : De Monfort. Act iii. Sc. % 



198 FRIENDSHIP — FROST. 

What spectre can the charnel send, 
So dreadful as an injured friend? 

1858 Scott : Rokeby. Canto ii. St. 22 

Love, a plant of fragile form, 
Fir'd by ardent suns to birth, 
Shrinks before the whelming storm, 
Withering, dies and sinks to earth. 
Friendship, like a nobler river, 
Eolls its stately waters by; 
Tempest toss'd and troubled never, 
Gliding to eternity. 

1859 Bohn: Ms. 

FROST. 

These winter nights, against my window-pane 

Nature with busy pencil draws designs 

Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines, 

Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines, 

Which she will make when summer comes again — 

Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold, 

Like curious Chinese etchings. 

1860 T. B. Aldrich : Frost-Work. 

All the panes are hung with frost 
Wild wizard-work of silver lace. 

1861 T. B. Aldrich : Latalcia. 

Come see the north-wind's masonry. 
Out of an unseen quarry evermore 
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer 
Curves his white bastions with projected roof 
Eound every windward stake, or tree, or cloor. 

1862 Emerson: The Snow- Storm. 

What miracle of weird transforming 
Is this wild work of frost and light, 
This glimpse of glory infinite ! 

1863 Wliittier: The Pageant. St. 8, 

He comes, — he comes, — the Frost Spirit comes!— from 
the frozen Labrador, — 

From the icy bridge of the Northern seas, which the white 
bear wanders o'er, — 

Where the fisherman's sail is stiff with ice, and the luck 
less forms below 

In the sunless cold of the lingering night into marble stat- 
ues grow ! 

1864 Whittier: The Frost Spirit 



FUNERAL — FUTUBi T V 199 

FUNERAL — see Death, Grave. 
But see ! the well-plnm'd hearse comes nodding on, 

Stately and slow: and properly attended 
By the whole sable tribe, that painful watch 
The sick man's door, and live upon the de id. 
By letting out their persons by the hour 
To mimic sorrow when the heart's not sad. 

1865 Blair: The Grave. Lin® 156 
Of all 

The fools who flock'd to swell or see the show, 

Who car'd about the corpse? The funeral 

Made the attraction, and the black the woe ; 

There throbb'd not there a thought which pierc'd the pall. 

1866 Byron : Vision of Judgment. St. 1ft 

FUTURITY — see Fate. 
If you can look into the seeds of time, 
And say which grain will grow, and which will not ; 
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear 
Your favors nor your hate. 

1867 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 

O heavens ! that one might read the book of fate, 
And see the revolutions of the times 
Make mountains level, and the continent, 
(Weary of solid firmness,) melt itself 
Into the sea. 

1868 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act iii. Sc. 1. 

0. if this were seen. 
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through. 
What perils past, what crosses to ensue. 
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. 

1869 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act iii. Sc. 1. 
0. that a man might know 

The end of this day's business, ere it come ! 
But it sufficeth that the day will end. 
And then the end is known. 

1870 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act v. Sc. L 
The dread of something after death, 

The undiscover'd country, from whose bour*. 
No traveller returns, puzzles the will; 
And makes us rather bear those ills we have, 
Than fly to others that we know not of. 

1871 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc 1. 
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. 

1872 Shares. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5 
Death. Beyond. 

Thou art sweet, thou art strange ! 

1873 Mrs. Browning: Rhapsody of Life's Pi'ogresa 



200 F UTURITY — GAMBLING. 

Is there a rarer being, 

Is there a fairer sphere 

Where the strong are not unseeing 

And the harvests are not sere ; 

Where, ere the seasons dwindle 

They yield their clue return; 

Where the lamps of knowledge kindle 

While the flames of youth still burn? 

1874 E. G. Stedman : Beyond the, Portals. Pt. vi 
What after all remains, when life is sped, 

And man is gathered to the silent dead? 

Home to the narrow house, the long, long sleep, 

Where pain is stilled, and sorrow doth not weep. 

1875 William Winter : Emotion of Sympathy. Pt. iii. 
Ah Christ, that it were possible 

For one short hour to see 

The souls we loved, that they might tell us 

What and where they be. 

1876 Tennyson : Maud. Pt. xxvi. St. 3. 
Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud. 

1877 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Wood and Water. 
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! 

Let the dead Past bury its dead ! 

1878 Longfellow: Psalm of Life. 



G. 

GAIN. 
That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain, 
And follows but for form, 
Will pack, when it begins to rain, 
And leave thee in a storm. 

1879 Shaks. : King Lear. Actii. Sc. 4- 

GAMBLING. 
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more 
Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; 
Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore. 

1880 Herbert : Temple. Church Porch. St. 38. 
Could fools to keep their own contrive, 

On what, on whom could gamesters thrive? 

1881 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 12 
Look round, the wrecks of play behold, 

Estates clismember'd, mortgag'd, sold ! 
Their owners now to jails confln'd, 
Show equal poverty of mind. 

1882 Gay: Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 12. 



GAMBLING — GARRICK. 201 

Dice will run the contrary way, 
As well is known to all who play, 
And cards w T ill conspire as in treason : 
And what with keeping a hunting-box, 
Following fox — 
Friends in flocks, 
Burgundies, Hocks, 
From London Docks ; 
Stultz's frocks, 
Mauton and Nocks 
Barrels and locks, 
Shooting blue rocks, 
Trainers and jocks, 
Buskins and socks, 
Pugilistical knocks, 
And fighting-cocks, 

If he found himself short in funds and stocks, 
These rhymes will furnish the reason ! 

1883 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Misery, 



GARDEN — see Flowers, Trees. 

A garden, sir, 
Wherein all rainbowed flowers were heaped together. 

1884 Charles King sley : Saint's Tragedy. Act v. Sc. L 

God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain. 

1885 Cowley: The Garden. Essay v. 

His gardens next your admiration call, 

On every side you loo£, behold the wall ! 

No pleasing intricacies intervene, 

No artful wilclness to perplex the scene ; 

Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, 

And half the platform just reflects the other. 

The suffering eye inverted nature sees, 

Trees cut to statues, statues thick as trees ; 

With here a fountain, never to be play'cl, 

And there a summer-house that knows no shade. 

1886 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iv. Line 113c 

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. 

1887 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 565. 



GARRICK. 
Our Garrick's a salad ; for in him we see 
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree. 

1888 Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 11 



202 G. 1 RR1 CK — GENIUS. 

Here lies David Garrick — describe him who can, 
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 
As an actor, conf ess'd without rival to shine ; 
As a wit, if not first, in the very first line ; 
Yet, with talents like these, and an excellent heart, 
The man had his failings — a dupe to his art. 
Like an ill-judging beauty, his colors he spread, 
And beplaster'd with rouge his own natural red. 
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting; 
'Twas only that when he was oft*, he was acting. 

1889 Goldsmith: Betaliation. Line 93 
If manly sense ; if nature link'd with art ; 

If thorough knowledge of the human heart ; 

If powers of acting vast and unconfin'd ; 

If fewest faults with greatest beauties join'd; 

If strong expression, and strange powers which lie 

Within the magic circle of the eye ; 

If feelings which few hearts, like his, can know, 

And which no face so well as his can show, 

Deserve the preference ; Garrick ! take the chair. 

Nor quit it till thou place an equal there. 

1890 Churchill : Rosciad. Line 1081. 

GENERALSHIP. 
Those that save themselves and fly, 
Go halves, at least, i' th' victory; 
And sometime, when the loss is small, 
And danger great, they challenge all; 
Print new additions to their feats, 
And emendations in gazettes; 
And when, for furious haste to run, 
They durst not stay to fire a gun, 
Have done't with bonfires, and at home 
Made squibs and crackers overcome. 

1891 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 269. 

GENEROSITY — see Benevolence, Bounty, Charity. 
He that's liberal 
To all alike, may do a good by chance, 
But never out of judgment. 

1892 Beaumont and Fletcher : Spanish Curate. Act i. Sc. 1. 

GENIUS. 

Time, place, and action, may with pains be wrought, 
But genius must be born, and never can be taught. 

1893 Dryden : Epis. to Congreve. Line 59. 
Steady work 

Turns genius to a loom. 

1894 George Eliot: Stradivarius, 



GENIUS — GENTLEMAN. 203 

Talent should minister to genius. 

1895 • Robert Browning : Two Poets of Croisic. St. 91. 

One science only will one genius fit, 
So vast is art, so narrow human wit: 

Like kings, we lose the conquests gain'd before. 
By vain ambition still to make them more. 

1896 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 6G 

G-ENTLEMAN — see Character, Man. 
Hi- years but youug, but his experience old; 
His head unmellow'd, but his judgment ripe ; 
Aud. iu a word (for far behind his worth 
Come all the praises that I now bestow), 
He is complete in feature, and iu mind, 
With all s:ood grace to s;race a gentleman. 

1897 Siiaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. A 
I'do not think a braver geutlemau, 

More active-valiant, or more valiant-young, 
More daring, or more bold, is now alive, 
To srrace this latter age with noble deeds. 

1898 Shahs. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 1. 
A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman. 

Fram'd in the prodigality of nature, 

Young, valiant, wise. and. no doubt right royal; 

The spacious world cannot a«-aiu afford. 

1899 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 
He bears him like a portly gentleman ; 

And. to say truth. Verona brags of him, 
To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth. 

1900 Shaks.: Bom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 5. 
We are gentlemen, 

That neither in our hearts, nor outward eyes, 
Envy the s:reat, nor do the low despise. 

1901 Shaks. : Pericles. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Nor stand so much on your gentility, 

Which is an airy, and mere borrow'd thing. 

Prom dead men's dust and bones ; and none of yours, 

Except you make, or hold it. 

1902 Ben Jonson : Every Man in his Humor. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Tho' modest, on his unembarrass'd brow 

Xature had written — Gentleman. 

1903 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ix. St. 8a 
He had then the grace, too rare in every clime, 

Of being, without alloy of fop or beau, 
A finish'd gentleman from top to toe. 

1901 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xii. St. 84. 



204 GENTLEMAN — GHOSTS. 

And thus he bore without abuse 
The grand old name* of gentleman. 

1905 Tennyson: In Memo riam. Pt. 110. St. 6. 

GENTLENESS. 

What would you have? Your gentleness shall force 
More than your force move us to gentleness. 

1906 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act Ii. Sc. 7. 

GEOGRAPHY. 

Geographers, in Afric maps, 

With savage pictures fill their gaps, 

And o'er unhabitable downs 

Place elephants for want of towns. 

1907 Swift : On Poetry. A Bhapsody. Line 177. 

GHOSTS — see Spirits. 

Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let the earth hide thee ! 
Thy bones are marrowless, tlvy blood is cold ; 
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes, 
Which thou dost glare with ! 

1908 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act hi. Sc. 4. 
Thou canst not say, I did it : never shake 

Thy gory locks at me. 

1909 * Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

What man dare, I dare : 
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, 
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
Shall never tremble. 

1910 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Angels and ministers of grace defend us ! — 

Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, 

Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell, 

Be thy intents wicked or charitable, 

Thou comest in such a questionable shape 

That I will speak to thee. 

1911 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4. 
He shudder'd, as no doubt the bravest cowers 

When he can't tell what 'tis that doth appal. 

How odd a single hobgoblin's nonentity 

Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity. 

1912 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xvi. St- 120. 
Spirits when they please 

Can either sex assume, or both ; so soft 
And uncompounded is their essence pure. 

1913 Milton : Bar. Lost. Bk. i. Line 423. 



GHOSTS— GIFTS. 205 

Some have mistaken blocks and posts, 
For spectres, apparitions, ghosts, 
With saucer-eyes and horns ; and some 
Have heard the devil beat a drum. 

1914 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 129. 

Many ghosts, and forms of fright, 
Have started from their graves to-night ; 
They have driven sleep from mine eyes away. 

1915 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv. 



BIFTS. 

Wear this for me, — one out of suits with fortune, 
That could give more, but that her hand lacks means. 

1916 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. 

She prizes not such trifles as these are : 
The gifts she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd 
Up in my heart ; which I have given already, 
But not deliver'cl. 

1917 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words : 

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 

More than quick words, do move a woman's mind. 

1918 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

To the noble mind, 
Eich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. 

1919 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1 

He ne'er consider'd it as loth, 
To look a gift horse in the mouth, 
And very wisely would lay forth 
IsTo more upon it than 'twas worth. 

1920 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 489. 

Saints themselves will sometimes be, 
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free. 

1921 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 495. 

A man may be a legal donor 

Of anything whereof he's owner. 

1922 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 679 

This, and in this, my soul I give, 
Lodg'd where I know 'twill ever live, 
For never could myself or mine 
Pall into kinder hands than thine. 

1923 Bohn: Ms, 



206 GIPSIES — GLORY. 

GIPSIES. 

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, 
Except the ill of being poor, 
Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, 
Who can in hen-roost set a spell, 
Prepar'cl by arts, to them best known 
To catch all feet except their own, 
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, 
As easily as pick a pocket. 

1924 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. i. Line 123. 
GIRDLE. 

A narrow compass ! and yet there 
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair ! 
Give me but what this ribbon bound, 
Take all the rest the sun goes round. 

1925 Waller : On a Girdle. 
GLOOM. 

Where glowing embers through the room 
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. 

1926 Milton : II Penseroso. Line 79. 
GLORY — see Fame. 

When the moon shone we did not see the candle, 
So doth the greater glory dim the less. 

1927 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Glory is like a circle in the water, 

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 

Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought. 

1928 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, 

But look'd at near, have neither heat nor light. 

1929 Webster : Duchess of Malfi. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Th' extremes of glory and of shame, 

Like east and west, become the same. 

No Indian Prince has to his palace 

More followers than a thief to the gallows. 

1930 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 271. 
Great conquerors greater glory gain 

By foes in triumph led, than slain ; 
The laurels that adorn their brows, 
Are pulled from living, not dead, boughs. 

1931 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 1065. 
Who pants for glory finds but short repose, 

A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 

1932 Pope : Satire v. Line 300. 
In moderation placing all my glory, 

While Tories call me^Whig, and Whigs a Tory. 

1933 Pope : Satire i. Line 67 



GL OR Y— GL UTTONY. 207/ 

Of some for glory such the boundless rage, 
That they're the blackest scandal of their age. 

1934 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iv. Line 65. 

To glory some advance a lying claim, 
Thieves of renown, and pilferers of fame ; 
Their front supplies what their ambition lacks : 
They know a thousand lords, behind their backs. 

1935 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iii. Line 87. 
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, 

And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, 

Await alike the inevitable hour : — 

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 

1936 Gray : Elegy. St. 9. 
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! 

To all the sensual world proclaim, 
One crowded hour of glorious life 
Is worth an age without a name. 

1937 Scott : Old Mortality. Ch. xxxiv. 
Our glories float between the eartli and heaven 

Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun, 
And are the playthings of the casual wind. 

1938 Bulwer-Lytton : Richelieu. Act v. Sc. 3. 

GLOW-WORM — set; Morning-. 
The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. 

1939 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, 

The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark. 
A moving radiance twinkles. 

1940 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1684. 

GLUTTONY — see Dinner, Greediness. 
He's a very valiant trencher-man. 

1941 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act i. Sc. L 
Eat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits 

Make rich the ribs, but bankerout the wits. 

1942 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; 

Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, 
Still on their dinner turn — 
Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, 
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. 

1943 Joanna Baillie : Basil. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Their various cares in one great point combine, 

The business of their lives — that is, to dine. 

1944 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iii. Line 75. 



208 GLUTTONY— GODS, 



Ne'er looks to Heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast, 
But with besotted, base ingratitude 
Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder. 

1945 Milton : Comus. Line 776, 

GOD — .see Deity, Providence. 

He that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. 

1946 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Tis heaven alone that is given away, 

'Tis only God may be had for the asking. 

1947 James Bussell Lowell: The Vision of Sir Launfal. 
God, who oft descends to visit men 

Unseen, aucl through their habitations walks 
To mark their doings. 

1948 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 48. 
God never made his work for man to mend. 

1949 Dryden : Epis. to John Dryden. Line 95. 
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 

Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. 

1950, Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 267. 

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, 
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, 
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, 
And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 

1951 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 87. 
Thou art, Gocl, the life and light 

Of all this wondrous world we see ; 
Its glow by day, its smile by night, 
Are but reflections caught from Thee : 
Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, 
And all things fair and bright are Thine. 

1952 • "" Moore : Thou Ark O God. 
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. 

1953 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Immortality. 

GODS. 

Immortal gods ! I crave no pelf ; 
I pray for no man, but myself. 
Grant I may never prove so fond 
To trust man on his oath or bond ; 
Or a harlot, for her weeping ; 
Or a clog, that seems a-sleeping ; 
Or a keeper with my freedom ; 
Or my friends, if I should need 'em. 

1954 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 



GODS— GOLD. 209 

In the elder days of Art, 
Builders wrought with greatest care 
Each minute aud unseen part; 
For the Gods see everywhere. 

1955 Longfellow : The Builders. 

GOLD — see Apparel, Avarice, Money, Riches 
All that glisters is not gold, 
Often have you heard that told ; 
Many a man his life hath sold ; 
But my outside to behold. 

1956 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
How quickly nature falls into revolt, 

When gold becomes her object ! 

For this the foolish over-careful fathers 

Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, 

Their bones with industry. 

For this they have engrossed and pil'd up 

The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved gold; 

For this they have been thoughtful to invest 

Their sons with arts and martial exercises : 

When, like the bee, culling from every flower 

The virtuous sweets ; 

Our thighs pack'cl with wax, our mouths with honey, 

We bring it to the hive ; and, like the bees, 

Are murther'd for our pains. 

1957 Shaks. : 2 Henry LV. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
O thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 

'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright clefiler 

Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! 

Thou ever young, fresh, loved, and delicate w T ooer, 

Whose blush cloth thaw the consecrated snow 

That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god, 

That sold'rest close impossibilities, 

And mak'st them kiss ! that speak'st with every tongue 

To every purpose ! thou touch of hearts ! 

Think, thy slave man rebels ; and, by thy virtue, 

Set them into confounding odcls, that beasts 

May have the world in empire ! 

1958 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. a 

'Tis gold 
Which buys admittance ; oft it cloth ; yea, and makes 
Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up 
Their deer to the stand o' the stealer ; and 'tis gold 
Which makes the true man kill'd, and saves the thief; 
Nay, sometime hangs both thief and true man : What 
Can it not do, and undo? 

1959 Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act ii. Sc. 3. 



210 G OLD — G OLDEN-R OD. 

Gold ; worse poison to men's souls, 
Doing more murther in this loathsome world, 
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. 

1960 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul Act v. Sc. 1. 
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; 

Esteem and love were never to be sold. 

1961 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 187. 

cursed lust of gold ! when for thy sake 

The fool throws up his interest in both worlds ; 
First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come ! 

1962 Blair: Grave. Line 347. 
Because my blessings are abus'd, 

Must I be ceusur'd, curs'cl, accus'd? 
Even virtue's self by knaves is made 
A cloak to carry on the trade. 

1963 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 6. 
Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine? 

Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine? 
Wisdom to gold prefer ; for 'tis much less 
To make our fortune, than our happiness. 

1964 Young : Love of Fame. Satire vi. Line 279. 
Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! 

Bright and yellow, hard and cold, 

Molten, graven, hammer' d, and roll'd; 

Heavy to get, and light to hold ; 

Hoarded, barter'd, bought, and sold, 

Stolen, borrow'd, squander'd, doled : 

Spurn'd by the young, but hugg'd by the old 

To the very verge of the churchyard mould ; 

Price of many a crime untold ; 

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! 

Good or bad a thousand-fold ! 

How widely its agencies vary — 

To save — to rain — to curse — to bless — 

As even its minted coins express, 

Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, 

And now of a bloody Mary. 

1965 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Moral. 
GOLDEN-ROD. 

1 lie amid the Golden-rod, 

I love to see it lean and nod ; 
I love to feel the grassy sod 
"Whose kindly breast will hold me last, 
Whose patient arms will fold me fast — 
Eold me from sunshine and from song, 
Eold me from sorrow and from wrong. 
Through gleaming gates of Golden-rod 
I'll pass into the rest of God. 

1966 Mary Clemmer : Golden-Rod. 



GOODNESS— GOOD NIGHT. 211 

GOODNESS — see Benevolence, Bounty. 
May lie live 
Longer than I have time to tell his years ! 
Ever belov'd, and loving, may his rule be ! 
And, when old Time shall lead him to his end, 
Goodness and he fill up one monument ! 

1967 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
'Tis a kind of good deed to say well, 

And vet words are no deeds. 

1968 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Good, the more 
Communicated, the more abundant grows. 

1969 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 71. 
And grant the bad what happiness they would ; 

One they must want, which is, — to pass for good. 

1970 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis, iv. Line 91. 

Who does the best his circumstance allows, 
Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. 

1971 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 91. 

The good are better made by ill, 
As odors crush' cl are sweeter still. 

1972 Rogers: Jacqueline. St. 3. 

Hard was their lodgiug, homely was their food, 
Eor all their luxury was doing good. 

1973 Garth: Claremont. Line 148. 

Oh, sir ! the good die first, 
And they whose hearts are dry as summer's dust, 
Burn to the socket. 

1974 Wordsworth : The Excursion. Bk. i. Line 504. 

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; 
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: 
And so make life, death, and that vast forever 
One grand, sweet song. 

1975 Charles Kingsley : A Farewell. 

Evil and good are God's right hand and left. 

1976 Bailey: Festus. Proem. Line 271. 

GOOD NIGHT. 

At once, good night : — 
Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. 

1977 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4, 
Good night ! good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow, 
That I shall say good night, till it be morrow. 

1978 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2, 



212 GOOD NIGHT— GRACE. 

Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait, 

His day's hot task hath ended in the west : 
The owl, night's herald, shrieks, — 'tis very late; 
The sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest ; 
And coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light, 
Do summon us to part, and bid good night. 

1979 Shales. : Venus and A. Line 529. 
To all, to each, a fair good night, 

And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. 

1980 Scott: Marmion. Canto vi. L'Envoy< 

GOVERNMENT — see Kings. 

Each petty hand 
Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will 
Govern and carry her to her ends, must know 
His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails;. 
What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers ; 
Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; 
What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her. 

1981 Ben Jonson : Catiline. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
All countries are a wise man's home, 

And so are governments to some, 
Who change them for the same intrigues 
That statesmen use in breaking leagues ; 
While others in old faiths and troths, 
Look odd, as out-of-fashion'd clothes. 

1982 Butler : Hudibras. Ft. iii. Canto ii. Line 1293. 
For forms of government let fools contest, 

Whate'er is best administer'd is best. 

1983 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 303. 
May you, may Cam and Isis, preach it long ! 

The right divine of kings to govern wrong. 

1984 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 187. 
'Tis government that makes them seem divine. 

1985 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. L 
Eor just experience tells, in every soil, 

That those who think must govern those who toil. 

1986 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 371. 

GRACE — see Beauty. 

To some kind of men 
Their graces serve them but as enemies. 

O what a world is this, when what is comely 
Envenoms him that bears it. 

1987 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. a 



GRA CE — GRA TITUDE. 213 

When once our grace we have forgot, 
Nothing goes right. 

1988 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, 
Nay, her foot speaks. 

1989 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iv. Sc. 5, 

See where she comes, apparell'd Like the Spring; 
Graces her subjects. 

1990 Shaks. : Pericles. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, 
In every gesture dignity and love. 

1991 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. viii. Line 488. 

'Cause grace, and virtue are within 
Prohibited degrees of kin ; 
And therefore no true saint allows 
They should be suffer'd to espouse. 

1992 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1293. 

A foot more light, a step more true, 

Ne'er from the heath-flower dash'd the dew. 

1993 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto i. St. 18. 

That caressing and exquisite grace — never bold, 
Ever present — which just a few women possess. 

1994 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. i. Canto iii. St. 9. 

An inborn grace that nothing lacked 
Of culture or appliance, — 
The warmth of genial courtesy, 
The calm of self-reliance. 

1995 Whittier : Among the Hills. St. 23. 

GRASSHOPPER. 
O thou that swing'st upon the waving ear 
Of some well-filled oaten beard, — 
Drunk every night with a delicious tear 
Dropp'd thee from heaven, where thou wast rear'd! 
The joys of earth and air are thine entire, 
That with thy feet and wings dost hop and fly ; 
And when thy poppy works, thou dost retire 
To thy carved acorn-bed to lie. 

1996 Richard Lovelace : The Grasshopper. 



GRATITUDE. 
Ah ! vainest of all things 
Is the gratitude of kings ! 

1997 Longfellow: Bolisarius 



214 GRA TITUDE — GRA VE. 

I praise Thee while my days go on ; 

I love Thee while my days go on : 

Through dark and dearth, through Are and frost, 

With emptied arms and treasure lost, 

I thank Thee while my days go on. 

And having in Thy life-depth thrown 

Being and suffering (which are one), 

As a child drops his pebble small 

Down some deep well, and hears it fall 

Smiling — so I. Thy days go on. 

1998 Mrs. Browning : Be Profundis. Sts. 23 and 24. 
GRAVE — see Churchyard, Death, Funeral, Sexton. 

An old man, broken with the storms of state, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye, 
Give him a little earth for charity. 

1999 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
One destin'd period men in common have, 

The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, 
All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. 

2000 Lansdowne : On Death. 
Grass grows at last above all graves, you say? 

2001 Julia C. B. Borr : Grass-Grown. 
The Grave, dread thing ! 

Men shiver when thou'rt named : Nature appall'd, 
Shakes off her wonted firmness. 

2002 Blair : The Grave. Line 9. 
Here all the mighty troubiers of the earth, 

Who swam to sov'reign rule through seas of blood ; 
Th' oppressive, stmxby, man-clestrojdng villains, 
Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, 
And in a cruel wantonness of power 
Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up 
To want the rest ; now, like a storm that's spent, 
Lie hush'cl. 

2003 Blair : The Grave. Line 208 
When self-esteem, or others' adulation, 

Would cunningly persuade us we were something 
Above the common level of our kind ; 
The grave gainsays the smooth complexion'd flattery, 
And with blunt truth acquaints us what we are. 

2004 Blair: The Grave. Line 232. 
Here the o'erloaded slave flings down his burden 

From his gall'd shoulders ; and, when the cruel tyrant, 
With all his guards and tools of power about him, 
Is meditating new, unheard-of hardships, 
Mocks his short arm, and, quick as thought, escapes 
Where t3 r rants vex not, and the weary rest. 

2005 * Blair : The Grave. Line 501. 



GRA TO? — ORE A TXESS. 2 1 5 

Under ground 
Precedency's a jest; vassal and lord, 
Grossly familiar, side by side consume. 

2006 Blair: The Grave. Line 229= 
There is a calm for those who weep, 

A rest for weary pilgrims found, 
They softly lie and sweetly sleep 
Low in the ground. 

2007 James Montgomery : The Grave 
Where is the house for all the living found? 

Go ask the deaf, the dumb, the dead; 

All answer, without voice or sound, 

Each resting in his bed ; 

Look down aud see, 

Beneath thy feet, 

A place for thee : 

— There all the living meet. 

2008 James Montgomery : In Mem. of the Rev. James Harvey. 
I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls 

The burial-ground, God's Acre ! It is just ; 
It consecrates each grave within its walls. 
And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust. 



Into its furrows shall we all be cast, 

Iu the sure faith, that we shall rise again 

At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast 

Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. 

2009 Longfellow : God's Acre, 
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, 

And our hearts, though stout and brave, 
Still, like muffled drums, are beating 
Funeral marches to the grave. 

2010 Longfelloio : Psalm of Life. 
The most magnificent and costly dome, 

Is but an upper chamber to a tomb ; 

Xo spot on earth but has supplied a grave, 

And human skulls the spacious ocean pave. 

2011 Young : Poem on the Last Day. Bk. ii. Line 87. 
Body hides — where? 

Ferns of all feather. 
Mosses and heather, 
Yours be the care ! 

2012 Robert Brovming : La Saisiaz. Prologue, 

GREATNESS — see Ambition, Authority, Farewell, Honor. 
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, 
And some have greatness thrust upon them. 

2013 Shaks. : Tic. Night. Act ii. Sc. 5. 



216 GREATNESS. 

Could great men thunder 
As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be qui 
For every pelting, petty officer 
Would use his heaven for thunder ; nothing but thunder. 

2014 Shaks.: M.for M. Act ii. Sc. 2 

Great men may jest with saints : -'tis wit in them, 
But in the less, foul profanation. 



That in the captain's but a choleric word, 
Which in the soldier is fiat blasphemv. 

2015 Shaks. : M. for 31. Act ii. Sc. 2 
Heaven knows, I had no such intent; 

But that necessity so bow'd the state, 
That I and greatness werecompell'd to kiss. 

2016 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Small curs are not regarded when they grin ; 

But great men tremble when the lion roars. 

2017 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI Art iii. Sc. 1. 
'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune, 
Must fall out with men too. What the declined is, 

He shall as soon read in the ej r es of others, 

As feel in his own fall ; for men, like butterflies, 

Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. 

2018 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world 

Like a Colossus ; and we petty men 
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about 
To find ourselves dishonorable graves. 

2019 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Rightly to be great, 

Is, not to stir without great argument, 
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 
When honor's at the stake. 

2020 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing 

That makes him honored, or begets him hate ; 
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. 
The moon, being clouded, presently is missed, 
But little stars may hide them when they list. 
The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire. 
And unperceived fly with the filth away : 
But if the like the snow-white swan desire, 
The stain upon his silver down will stay. 

2021 Shaks. : R. of Lucrece. Line 1004. 
No great deed is done 

By falterers who ask for certainty. 

2022 George Eliot: The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. 1 



GREA TNESS — GREE CE. 2 1 7 

He, above the rest 
In shape and gesture proudly eminent, 
Stood like a tower. 

2023 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 589. 
At whose sight all the stars 

Hide their diminished heads. 

2024 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 34. 
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, 

And greatly falling with a falling state. 

2025 Pope : Prologue to Addison's Cato. Line 21. 
Teach me, like thee, iu various nature wise, 

To fall with dignity, with temper rise ; 
Form'd by thy converse, happily to steer 
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. 

2026 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 377, 
What is station high? 

'Tis a proud mendicant; it boasts, and begs ; 
It begs an alms of homage from the throng, 
And oft the throng denies its charity. 

2027 Young : Night TJwughts. Night vi. Line 287. 
He, who ascends to mountain-tops shall find 

Their loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds of snow ; 
He, who surpasses or subdues mankind, 
Must look down on the hate of those below. 
Tho' high above the sun of glory glow, 
And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, 
Bound him are icy rocks, and loudly blow 
Contending tempests on his naked head. 

2028 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 45. 
Great truths are portions of the soul of man ; 

Great souls are portions of Eternity. 

2029 James Russell Lowell : Sonnet vi. 
In joys, in grief, in triumphs, in retreat, 

Great always, without aiming to be great. 

2030 Roscommon : Dr. Chetwood to the Earl. Line 67, 
Great hearts have largest room to bless the small ; 
Strong natures give the weaker home and rest. 

2031 Lucy Larcom : Sonnet. The Presence. 
Are not great 

Men the models of nations? 

2032 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St 29. 

GREECE. 
The mountains look on Marathon — 
And Marathon looks on the sea ; 
And musing there an hour alone, 
I dream'cl that Greece might still be free. 

2033 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 86. 



218 GREE CE — GRIEF. 

Clime of the uu forgotten brave ! 
Whose laud, from plain to mountain-care, 
Was Freedom's home, or Glory's grave ; 
Shrine of the mighty ! can it be, 
That this is all remains of thee? 

2034 Byron: Giaour. Line 113 
Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth ! 

Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! 

2035 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 73. 

GREEDINESS— see Gluttony. 
Those that much covet are with gain so fond, 
That what they have not, that which they possess, 
They scatter and unloose it from their bond, 
And so, by hoping more, they have but less; 
Or, gaining more, the profit of excess 
Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, 
That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain. 

2036 Shaks. : R. of Lucrece. Line 134. 

GRIEF — see Consolation, Sorrow, Tears, Weeping 1 . 
Every one can master a grief but he that has it. 

2037 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Weep I cannot ; 

But my heart bleeds. 

2038 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
What's gone, and what's past help, 

Should be past grief. 

2039 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
A heavier task could not have been impos'd. 

Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. 

2040 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Each substance of a grief hath tweuty shadows, 

Which show like grief itself, but are not so : 
Eor sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears, 
Divides one thing entire to mairy obiects. 

2041 Shaks. : Richard II Act ii. Sc. % 
Of comfort no man speak : 

Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; 
Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes 
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. 

2042 Shaks. : Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
My grief lies all within ; 

And these external manners of laments 
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief 
That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul ; 
There lies the substance. 

2043 Shaks. : Richard II. Act iv. Sc. i 



GRIEF. 219 

The tempest in my mind 
Doth from my senses take all feeling else, 
Save what beats there. 

2044 Shales. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4, 

Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, 

Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes ; 

Then little strength rings out the doleful knell. 

2045 Shaks. : B. of Lucrece. Line 1493. 

Some grief shows much of love, 
But much of grief shows still some want of wit. 

2046 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, 
As full of grief as age ; wretched in both ! 

2047 Shaks. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Why, let the stricken deer go weep, 

The hart ungalled play : 

Eor some must watch, while some must sleep; 

So runs the world away. 

2048 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 

What is he, whose grief 
Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow 
Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes them stand 
Like wonder- wounded hearers? 

2049 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1 

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended. 

2050 SJiaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; 
He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. 

2051 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Grief hath two tongues ; and never woman yet 

Could rule them both without ten women's wit. 

2052 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 1007. 
She shook 

The holy water from her heavenly eyes, 

Aud clamor moisten'cl : — then away she started 

To deal with grief alone. 

2053 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

What need a man forestall his elate of grief, 
And run to meet what he would most avoid? 

2054 Milton : Comus. Line 362, 

O brothers ! let us leave the shame and sin 
Of taking vainly, in a plaintive mood, 
The holy name of Grief ! — holy herein, 
That, by the grief of One, came all our good. 

2055 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets. Exaggeration 



220 GRIEF— GRUDGE. 

Grief is a tattered tent 
Wherethrough God's light doth shine. 

2056 Lucy Larcom : Hints. 

Good is' that darkening of our lives. 
Which only God can brighten; 
But better still that hopeless load. 
Which none but God can lighten. 

2057 Frederick William Faber : Deep Grief. St. 15. 

Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls, 
Or grieves too much, deserves not to be blest — 
Inhuman or effeminate his heart. 

2058 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 501. 

Grief should be the instructor of the wise ; 
Sorrow is knowledge : they who know the most 
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, 
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. 

2059 Byron : Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1. 

No words suffice the secret soul to show, 
And Truth denies all eloquence to Woe. 

2060 Byron : Corsair. Canto iii. St. 22. 

Upon her face there was the tint of grief, 
The settled shadow of an inward strife, 
And an unquiet drooping of the eye, 
As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. 

2061 Byron : Dream. St. 5. 

There comes 
For ever something between us and what 
We deem our happiness. 

2062 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Alas ! the breast that inly bleeds, 
Hath nought to dread from outward blow : 
Who falls from all he knows of bliss, 
Cares little into what abyss. • 

2063 Byron : Giaour. Line 1165. 

No future hour can rend my heart like this. 
Save that which breaks it. 

2064 Maturin: Bertram. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
A malady 

Preys on my heart that med'eine cannot reach. 

2065 Maturin : Bertram. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

GRUDGE. 
If I can catch him once upon the hip, 
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 

2066 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. 



G UES TS — HABIT. 221 

GUESTS — see Welcome. 

Unbidden guests 
Are often welcomest when the}' are gone. 

2067 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI Act ii. Sc. 2. 
For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best, 

Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 

2068 Pope : Satire ii. Line 159, 

GUILT — .see Conscience, Crime. 

Who has that breast so pure, 
But some uncleanly apprehensions 
Keep leets, and law-days, and in sessions sit 
With meditations lawful? 

2069 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Guiltiness will speak 

Though tongues were out of use. 

2070 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 1. 
How guilt, once harbor'd in the conscious breast, 
Intimidates the brave, degrades the great ! 

2071 Br. Johnson : Irene. Act iv. Sc. 8. 

But many a crime, deemed innocent in earth, 
Is registered in Heaven, and these, no doubt, 
Have each their record, with a curse annex'd. 

2072 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 439. 
To what gulfs 

A single deviation from the track 
Of human duties leads even those who claim 
The homage of mankind as their born due, 
And find it, till they forfeit it themselves. 

2073 Byron : Sard'anapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1. 



HABIT — see Custom. 
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, 
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. 

2074 Dryden : Ovid's Metamorphoses. Bk. xv- Line 155. 

My very chains and I grew friends, 
So much a long communion tends 
To make us what we are : even I 
Regain'd my freedom with a sigh. 

2075 Byron : Pris. of Chillon. St. 14. 

Small habits well pursued betimes 
Hav reach the dignity of crimes. 

2076 Hannah More : Floris. Pt. i. Line 8." 



222 HAIR — HAND. 

HAIR — see Beard. 

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, 
Can draw you to her with a single hair. 

2077 Dryden : From Persius. Satire v. Line 246. 
This nymph, to the destruction of mankind, 

Nourish'd two locks, which graceful hung behind 
In equal curls, and well conspir'd to deck, 
With shining ringlets, the smooth ivory neck. 
Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, 
And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. 
With hairy springes we the birds betray, 
Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey. 

2078 Pope : B. of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 19. 
Pair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, 

And beauty draws us with a single hair. 

2079 Pope : B. of the Lock. Canto ii. Line 27. 
Golden hair, like sunlight streaming 

On the marble of her shoulder. 

2080 J. G. Saxe : The Lover's Vision. St. 3. 
Time has touched it in his flight, 

And changed the auburn hair to white. 

2081 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. 4. 
The glittering tresses which, now shaken loose, 
Shower'd gold. 

2082 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto iv. St. 12. 
Her locks are plighted like the fleece of wool 

That Jason with his Grecian mates achiev'd, 
As pure as gold, yet not from gold deriv'd ; 
As full of sweets as sweet of sweets is full. 

2083 Bobert Greene : From Menaphon. Menaphon's Eclogue. 

When you see fair hair 
Be pitiful. 

2084 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. 4. 

HAND. 

Let my hand — 
This hand, lie in your own — my own true friend ! 
Hand in hand with you. 

2085 Bobert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 5. 
'Twas a hand 

White, delicate, dimpled, warm, languid, and bland. 

The hand of a woman is often, in youth, 

Somewhat rough, somewhat reel, somewhat graceless in 

truth; 
Does its beauty refine, as its pulses grow calm. 
Or as Sorrow has crossed the life-line in the palm? 

2086 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. i. Canto iii. St. IS. 



HANGING — HAPPINESS. 223 

HANGING. 

Go, go, be gone, to save your ship from wrack; 
Which cannot perish, having thee aboard, 
Being destined to a drier death on shore. 

2087 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 1. 
HAPPINESS — see Bliss, Cheerfulness, Pleasure. 

O, how bitter a thing it is to look 

Into happiness through another man's eyes ! 

2088 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Happy, in that we are not over-happy : 

On fortune's cap we are not the very button. 

2089 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere, 

"Tis nowhere to be found, or everywhere. 

2090 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 15. 
The happy have whole days, and those they choose ; 

The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose. 

2091 Cibber: Double Gallant. Act v. Sc. L 
Our aim is happiness, 'tis yours, 'tis mine, 

He said ; 'tis the pursuit of all that live ; 
Yet few attain it, if 'twas e'er attained. 
But they the widest wander from the mark, 
Who through the flowery path of sauntering joy 
Seek this coy goddess ; that from stage to stage 
Invites us still, but shifts as we pursue. 

2092 Armstrong : Art of Preserving Health. Bk. iv. Line 238. 
If solid happiness we prize, 

Within our breast this jewel lies, 
And they are fools who roam ; 
The world hath nothing to bestow. — 
From our own selves our bliss must flow, 
.And that clear hut, our home. 

2093 Cotton : Fireside. St. 3. 
And there is even a happiness 

That makes the heart afraid. 

2094 Hood : Ode to Melancholy. 
All who joy would win 

Must share it — Happiness was born a twin. 

2095 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 172. 
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss 

Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall ! 

2096 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 41. 
But what are past or future joys? 

The present is our own ; 

And he is wise who best employs 

The passing hour alone. 

2097 Heber: From Pindar 



224 HAPPINESS — IP 1 TRED. 

I with you, and you with me. 
Miles are short with company. 

2098 George Eliot : Agatha. 
To be good is to be happy — Angels 

Are happier than mankind, because they're better. 
Guilt is the source of sorrow ! 'tis the fiend, 
Th' avenging fiend, that follows us behind, 
With whips and stings. 

2099 Nicholas Bowe : The Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Hence we may learn, 
That though it be a grand and comely thing 
To be unhappy, — (and we think it is, 
Because so many grand and clever folk 
Have found out reasons for unhappiuess), 
. . . . yet, since we are not grand, 
O, not at all, and as for cleverness, 
That may be or may not be, — it is well 
Tor us to be as happy as we can ! 

2100 Jean Ingelow : Gladys and her Island. Moral. 
I opened the doors of my heart. 

And behold, 
There was music within and a song, 
And echoes did feed on the sweetness, repeating it long. 
I opened the doors of my heart. And behold, 
There was music that played itself out in aeolian notes ; 
Then was heard, as a far-away bell at loug intervals tolled. 

2101 Jean Ingelovj : Contrasted Songs. A Lily and a Lute. 

HASTE. 
Farewell ; and let your haste commend your duty. 

2102 Shales. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Haste thee, Njniiph, and bring with thee 

Jest and youthful jollity, 

Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, 

Noels and becks, and wreathed smiles. 

2103 Milton : L' Allegro. Line 25. 
Running together all about, 

The servants put each other out, 
Till the grave master had decreed, 
The more haste, ever the worst speed. 

2104 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. iv. Line 1159. 

HATRED— sev Defiance. 
Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, 
That I may live to sav, the clog is dead ! 

2105 ShaJcs. : Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, 
"When, I am sure, you hate me with } T our hearts. 

2106 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



HATRED. 225 

I'll not be made a soft and dull-ey'd fool, 
To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield 
To Christian intercessors. 

2107 Shales. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

I do love thee so, 
That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, 
If heaven will take the present at our hands. 

2108 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act i. Sc. 1. 

For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, 
That I might love thee something. 

2109 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Had I power, I should 
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, 
Uproar the universal peace, confound 
All unity on earth. 

2110 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

I know thee not, nor ever saw till now 
Sight more detestable than him and thee. 

2111 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 744. 
Never can true reconcilement grow 

Where wounds of deacllv hate have piere'd so deep. 

2112 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 98. 

I see thou art implacable, more deaf 

To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas 

Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore : 

Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages, 

Eternal tempest never to be calm'd. 

2113 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 960. 

Hate f nrroweth the brow, and a man may frown till he 
hateth. 

2114 Tapper: Proverbial Phil. Of Estimating Character. 
He, who would free from malice pass his days, 

Must live obscure, and never merit praise. 

2115 Gay: Epis. iv. Line 81. 
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, 

Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'cl. 

2116 Congreve : Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8. 
Disgust conceal'd 

Is oft-times proof of wisdom, when the fault 
Is obstinate, and cure beyond onr reach. 

2117 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 3S. 
They did not know how hate can burn 

In hearts once changed from soft to stern ; 
Nor all the false and fatal zeal 
The convert of revenge can feel. 

2118 Byron : Siege of Corinth. St. 12. 



226 HA TRED — HEAR T. 

There is no passion 
More spectral or fantastical than Hate ; 
Not even its opp'site, Love, so peoples air 
"With phantoms, as this madness of the heart. 

2119 Byron: Two Foscari. Act iv. Sc. L 
There was a laughing devil iu his sneer, 

That rais'd emotions both of rage and fear ; 
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell, 
Hope withering fled, and Mercy sigh'd farewell ! 

2120 Byron : Corsair. Canto i. St. 9. 
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure ; 

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. 

2121 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto xiii. St. 6. 
Offend her, and she knows not to forgive ; 

Oblige her, and she'll hate you while you live. 

2122 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 137. 

HAWTHORN. 

The hawthorn bnsh, with seats beneath the shade, 
Lor talking age and whispering lovers made ! 

2123 Goldsmith : Bes. Village. Line 13. 

HEALTH— see Sickness. 

Nor love, nor honor, wealth, nor power, 
Can give the heart a cheerful hour 
When health is lost. Be timely wise ; 
With health all taste of pleasure flies. 

2121 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 31. 

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, 
Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. 
But health consists with temperance alone ; 
And peace, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. 

2125 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 79. 
Ah ! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, 

When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? 
How tasteless then whatever can be given ! 
Health is the vital principle of bliss, 
And exercise of health. 

2126 Thomson: Castle of Ind. Canto ii. St. 55. 

HEART — see Beauty, Cruelty, Love. 
With every pleasing, every prudent part, 
Say, what can Chloewant? She wants a heart. 

2127 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 159. 
Heaven's sovereign saves all beings but himself, 

That hideous sight, a naked human heart. 

2128 Young: Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 226. 



HE A 7? T — TIE A YEN. 227 

The heart is like the sky. a part of heaven, 

But changes, uight and clay, too, like the sky : 

Now o'er it clouds and thunder must be driven, 

And darkness and destruction as on high ; 

But when it hath been scorch'd and pierc'd and riven, 

Its storms expire in water-drops; the eye 

Pours forth, at last, the heart's blood turn'd to tears. 

2129 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 214. 
His heart was one of those which most enamor us, 

"Wax to receive, and marble to retain. 

2130 Byron: Beppo. St. 34. 

HEAT. 
Hither rolls the storm of heat ; 
I feel its finer billows beat 
Like a sea which me infolds ; 
Heat with viewless fingers moulds, 
Swells, and mellows, and matures, 
Paints, and flavors, and allures, 
Bird and brier inly warms, 
Still enriches and transforms, 
Gives the reed and lily length. 
Adds to oak and oxen strength, 
Transforming what it doth infold, 
Life out of death, new out of old. 

2131 Emerson : May-Bay. Line 179. 

HEAVEN — see Providence, Stars. 

Shall we serve heaven 
With less respect than we do minister 
To our gross selves. 

2132 Shaks. : M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
It is presumption in us. when 

The help of Heaven we count the act of men. 

2133 Shaks. : All's Well. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Heaven is above all yet : there sits a Judge 

That no king can corrupt. 

2134 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Heaven 

Is as the Book of God before thee set, 
Wherein to read his wondrous works. 

2135 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. viii. Line 66. 
In hope to merit Heaven, by making earth a Hell. 

2136 Byron: Gh. Harold. Canto i. St 20. 
For as one star another far exceeds, 

So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds. 

2137 Bobert Greene : A Maiden's Dream. 



228 HEEDLESSNESS —HELL. 

HEEDLESSNESS. 

Oh, many a shaft, at random sent, 
Finds mark the archer little meant ; 
And many a word, at random spoken, 
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. 

2138 Scott: Lord of the Isles. Cantor. St. 18. 

HERITAGE. 

" Yet doth he live ! " exclaims th' impatient heir, 
And sighs for sables which he must not wear. 

2139 Byron : Lara. Canto i. St. 3. 
To heirs unknown descends th' unguarded store, 

Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor. 

2140 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 149. 

HELL. 

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd 

In one self-place ; for where we are is Hell ; 

And where Hell is, there must we ever be ; 

And to conclude, when all the world dissolves, 

And every creature shall be purified, 

All places shall be Hell that are not Heaven. 

2141 Marlowe : Faustus. {From Quarto, 1616.) 
A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, 

As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames 
No light ; but rather darkness visible 
Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, 
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, Avhere peace 
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes 
That comes to all, but torture without end. 

2142 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 6^ 
Hell is the wrath of Gocl — His hate of sin. 

2143 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Hell. 
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. 

2144 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Heaven. 
A dark 

Illimitable ocean, without bouud, 

Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, 

And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night 

And Chaos — ancestors of Nature, hold 

Eternal anarclry, amidst the noise 

Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. 

2145 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 891. 
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, 

Who never mentions hell to ears polite. 

2146 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iv. Line 149. 
And bid him go to Hell, to Hell he goes. 

2147 Dr. Johnson: London. Line 116. 



HELL — HER OES. ■> 2 9 



Hell is paved with good intentions. 

2148 Boswell : Johnson. An. 1775. 

Hell is a city much like London — 
A populous and a smoky city; 
There are all sorts of people undone, 
And there is little or no fun done ; 
Small justice shown, and still less pity. 



Lawyers — judges — old hobnobbers 
Are there — bailiffs — chancellors — 
Bishops — great and little robbers — 
Rhymesters — pamphleteers — stock-jobbers — 
Men of glory in the wars. 

2149 Shelley : Peter Bell the Third. Pt. iii. 

HERMIT. 
Far in a wild, unknown to public view. 
From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; 
The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, 
His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : 
Remote from men, with God he passed the days, 
Prayer all his business — all his pleasure praise. 

2150 Parnell: The Hermit. Line 1. 
HEROES. 

Prodigious actions may as well be done 
By weaver's issue, as by prince's son. 

2151 Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 638. 
Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed. 

From Macedonia's madman to the Swede. 

2152 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 219. 
I know thee for a man of many thoughts, 

And deeds of good and ill, extreme in both, 
Fatal and fated, in thy sufferings. 

2153 Byron : Manfred. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Yes, Honor decks the turf that wraps their clay. 

2154 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 42. 
Whoe'er excels in what we prize, 

Appears a hero in our eyes. 

2155 Swift : Cadenus and Vanessa. Line 729. 
To the hero, when his sword 

Has won the battle for the free, 

Death's voice sounds like a prophet's word ; 

And in its hollow tones are heard 

The thanks of millions yet to be ! 

2156 Halleck: Marco Bozzaris. 
The hero is the world-man, in whose heart 

One passion stands for all, the most indulged. 

2157 Bailey: Festus. Proem. Line 114. 



230 HESPER US — HO LI DA Y. 

HESPERUS. 

Hesperus ! thou bringest all good things 
Home to the weary, to the hunger cheer, 
To the young bird the parent's brooding wings, 
The welcome stall to the o'eiiabor'd steer. 
Whate'er of peace about our hearthstone clings, 
Whate'er our household gods protect of dear, 
And gather'd round us by thy look of rest ; 
Thou bring'st the child, too, to the mother's breast. 

2158 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 107. 

HISTORY — see Authors, Books. 

There is the moral of all human tales ; 

'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past, 

First freedom, and then glory — when that fails, 

Wealth, vice, corruption — barbarism at last, 

And history, with all her volumes vast, 

Hath but one page. 

2159 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 108. 

HOBBIES. 

One master passion iu the breast, 

Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. 

2160 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 131. 
The ruling passion, be it what it will, 

The ruling passion conquers reason still. 

2161 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 153. 

HOLIDAY — see Birthday, Christmas, New Year. 
If all the year were playing holidays, 
To sport would be as tedious as to work; 
But when they seldom come, they wished-for come, 
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 

2162 Shales. : 1 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 2. 
The holiest of all holidays are those 

Kept by ourselves in silence and apart ; 

The secret anniversaries of the heart, 

When the full river of feeling overflows ; — 

The happy days unclouded to their close ; 

The sudden joys that out of darkness start 

As flames from ashes ; swift desires that dart 

Like swallows singing down each wind that blows! 

2163 Longfellow : Holidays, 
We speak of a Merry Christmas, 

And many a Happy New Year; 
But each in his heart is thinking 
Of those that are not here. 

2164 Longfellow: The Meeting. St. 4. 



HOLINESS — HOME. 231 

HOLINESS. 

Whoso lives the holiest life 
Is fittest far to die. 

2165 Margaret J. Preston : Ready. 

HOLLY. 

O reader ! hast thou ever stood to see 

The Holly-tree? 

The eye that contemplates it well perceives 

Its glossy leaves 

Order'd by an intelligence so wise 

As might confound an atheist's sophistries. 

Below a circling fence its leaves are seen, 

Wrinkled and keen ; 

Xo grazing cattle through their prickly round 

Can reach to wound ; 

But, as they grow where nothing is to fear, 

Smooth and unarm'd the pointless leaves appear. 

2166 Southey: The Holly Tree, 
HOME— see Absence, Welcome. 

Home-keeping youth have ever homelv wits. 

2167 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 1. 
The whole world, without a native home, 

Is nothing but a prison of larger room. 

2168 Cowley: To the Bishop of Lincoln. 
The little smiling cottage ! where at eve 

He meets his rosy children at the door, 
Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife, 
With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent 
To cheer his hunger after labor hard. 

2169 Dyer: The Fleece, i. 120. 
Home is the resort 

Of love, of joy, of peace and plenty, where, 
Supporting and supported, polish' d friends 
And dear relations mingle into bliss. 

2170 Thomson : Seasons. Autumn. Line 65. 
There's a strange something which, without a brain, 
Pools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, 
Planted in man, to bind him to that earth, 

In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth. 

2171 Churchill: The Farewell. Line 63. 
The first sure symptom of a mind in health, 

Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home. 

2172 Young: Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 930 
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 

His first, best country, ever is at home. 

2173 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 73. 



232 HOME. 

This fond attachment to the well-known place 
Whence first we started into life's long race, 
Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, 
We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day. 

2174 Cowper : Tirocinium. Line 314 
The parted bosom clings to wonted home, 

If aught, that's kindred, cheer the welcome hearth. 

2175 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 92. 
He enter'd in the house — his home no more ; 

For without hearts there is no home ; — and felt 
The solitude of passing his own door 
Without a welcome. 

2176 Byron : Hon Juan. Canto iii. St. 52. 
'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark 

Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home ; 
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark 
Our coming, and look brighter when we come. 

2177 Byron : Hon Juan. Canto i. St. 123. 

And say, without our hopes, without our fears, 
Without the home that plighted love endears, 
Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
Oh! what were man? — a world without a sun. 

2.178 Campbell : HI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 21. 

Breathes there the man with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said, 
This is my own, my native land ! 
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd, 
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd, 
From wandering on a foreign strand ! 

2179 Scott: Lay of Last Minstrel. Canto vi. St. 1. 

How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood, 
When fond recollection presents them to view : — 
The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled Avildwood, 
And every lov'd spot which my infaucy knew. 

2180 Woodworth : The Old Oaken Bucket. 
'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 

Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. 

2181 J. Howard Payne : Home, Sweet Home. 

The Cottage Homes of England ! 

By thousands on her plains, 

They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks, 

And round the hamlet-fanes ; 

Through glowing orchards forth they peep, 

Each from its nook of leaves ; 

And fearless there the lowly sleep, 

As the birds beneath their eaves. 

2182 Mrs. Hemans : Homes of England 



HOME — HONESTY. 233 

The stately Homes of England, 
How beautiful they stand ! 
Amidst their tall ancestral trees, 
O'er all the pleasant land. 

2183 Mrs. Hemans: Homes of England. 
Man, through all ages of revolving time, 

Unchanging man, in every varying clime, 
Deems his own laud of every laud the pride, 
Belov'cl of heaveu o'er all the world beside : 
His home, the spot of earth supremely blest, 
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 

2184 James Montgomery : West Indies. Pt. iii. Line 63. 
Who hath not met with home-made bread, — 

A heavy compound of putty and lead, — 
• And home-made wines that rack the head, 
And home-made liqueurs and waters? 
Home-made pop that will not foam, 
And home-made dishes that drive one from home. 
Not to name each mess 
For the face or dress, 
Home-made by the homely daughters? 

2185 Hood: Miss Kilmansegg. Her Misery. 

HOMER. 

I can no more believe old Homer blind, 

Than those who say the sun hath never shin'cl ; 

The age wherein he liv'd was dark, but he 

Could not want sight who taught the world to see. 

2186 Denham : Progress of Learning. 
Read Homer once, and you can read no more, 

For all books else appear so mean, so poor; 
Verse may seem prose ; but still persist to read, 
And Homer will be all the books you need. 

2187 Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham : Essay on Poetry. 

HONESTY — see Sincerity. 

Because I caunot natter, and look fair, 
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, 
Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, 
I must be held a rancorous enemy. 
Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm, 
But thus his simple truth must be abus'd 
By silken, sly, insiuuating Jacks ? 

. 2188 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act i. Sc. a 

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; 
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, 
That they pass by me, as the idle wind, 
Which I respect not. 
2189 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



234 U OX EST Y— HONOR. 

Ay, sir : to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man 
pick'd out of two thousand. 

2190 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
An honest man he is, and hates the slime 

That sticks on filthy deeds. 

2191 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2, 
Heav'n that made me honest, made me more 

Than ever king did, when he made a lord. 

2192 Howe : Jane Shore. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod ; 

An honest man's the noblest work of God. 

2193 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 247. 
An honest man, close button'd to the chin, 
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. 

2194 Cowper : Epistle to Joseph Hill. 
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings : 

" An honest man's the noblest work of God." 

2195 Burns: Cotter's Saturday Night. 

HONEYMOON — see Moon. 

The moon — the moon, so silver and cold, 
Her fickle temper has oft been told, 
Now shady — now bright and sunny — 
But of all the lunar things that change, 
The one that shows most fickle and strange, 
And takes the most eccentric range 
Is the moon — so called — of honey ! 

2196 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Honeymoon. 

HONOR — see Greatness, Integrity, Reputation. 
O, that estates, degrees, and offices, 
Were not derived corruptly ! and that clear honor 
Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! 
How many then should cover, that stand bare ! 
How many be commanded, that command ! 
How much low peasantry would then be glean'd 
From the true seed of honor ! and how much honor 
Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, 
To be new varnish'd. 

2197 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. 
From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 

The place is dignified by the doer's deed : 
When great additions swell, and virtue none, 
It is a dropsiecl honor. 

2198 Shaks. : AIVs Well. Act ii. Sc. & 
Mine honor is my life ; both grow in one ; 

Take honor from me, and my life is clone. 

2199 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act i. Sc. 1. 



HONOR. 235 

That is honor's scorn, 

bom, 

And is not like the sire. Honors best thrive, 
When rather from our acts we them derive 
Than our f oregoers ; the mere word's a slave, 
Deboshed on every tomb, on every grave 
A lying trophy; and as oft is dumb, 
Where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the tomb 
Of honored bones indeed. 

2200 Shaks. : All's Well Act ii. Sc. £ 
Xew honors . . . 

Like our strange garments, cleave not their mould 
But with the aid of use. 

2201 Shaks, : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 
The purest treasure mortal times afford 

Is — spotless reputation ; that away, 
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 

2202 Shaks. : Pdchard II. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Too much honor : 

O, 'tis a burthen, . . . 'tis a burthen, 

Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven. 

2203 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Who shall go about 

To cozen fortune, and be honorable 

Without the stamp of merit ! Let none presume 

To wear an undeserved dignity. 

220f Shaks. : 3Ier. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. 

By heaven, methinks, it were an easy leap 
To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon ; 
Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 
And pluck up drowned honor by the locks : 
So he, that cloth redeem her thence, might wear, 
Without corrival, all her dignities. 

2205 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV Act i. Sc. 3. 

Not a man, for being simply man, 
Hath any honor ; but honor for those honors 
That are without him, as place, riches, favor, 
Prizes of accident as oft as merit : 
Which, when they fall, as being slippery standers, 
The love that leaned on them as slippery too, 
Do one pluck down another, and together 
Die in the fall. 

2206 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. a 

Honor travels in a strait so narrow, 

Where one but goes abreast : keep then the path. 

2207 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



23G HONOR. 

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man 
Holds honor far more precious dear than life. 

2208 Shales. : Troil. and Cress. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Brutus is an honorable man, 
So are they all, all honorable men. 

2209 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Set honor in one eye, and death i' the other, 

And I will look on both indifferently : 
For, let the gods so speed me as I love 
The name of honor more than I fear death. 

2210 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Thou art a fellow of a good respect ; 

Thv life hath had some smatch of honor in it. 

2211 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act v. Sc. 5. 
If you were born to honor, show it now ; 

If put upon you, make the judgment good 
That thought you worthy of it. 

2212 Shaks. : Pericles. Act iv. Sc. 6. 

This, above all. — To thine own self be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

2218 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 

He was not born to shame : 
Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit; 
For 'tis a throne where honor may be crown'd 
Sole monarch of the universal earth. 

221-1 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

He that is valiant, and dares fight, 
Though clrubb'd, can lose no honor by't. 
Honor's a lease for lives to come, 
And cannot be extended from 
The legal tenant : 'tis a chattel 
Not to be forfeited in battle. 

2215 Butler: Huclibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1041. 

Honor is like that glassy bubble 
That finds philosophers such trouble ; 
Whose least part crack'd, the whole does fly, 
And wits are crack'd to find out why. 

2216 Butler : Huclibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 385. 

Quoth Ralpho, Honor's but a word, 

To swear by onry in a lord : 

In other men 'tis but a huff 

To vapor with, instead of proof ; 

That like a wen looks big and swells, 

Is senseless, and just nothing else. 

2217 Butler: Huclibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 389 



HONOR. 237 

If lie, that in the field is slain, 
Be in the bed of honor lain, 
He that is beaten may be said 
To lie in honor's truckle-bed. 

2218 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1047 

Honor is, like a widow, won 
With brisk attempt, and putting on ; 
With ent'riug manfully and urging ; 
Not slow approaches, like a virgin. 

2219 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 913, 

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, 

That draws in raw and unexperienced men 

To real mischiefs, while they hunt a shadow. 

2220 Addison : Cato. Act ii. Sc. 5, 

Honor's a sacred tie, the law of kings, 

The noble mind's distinguishing perfection, 

That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her, 

And imitates her actions, where she is not. 

It ought not to be sported with. 

2221 Addison : Cato. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Better to die ten thousand thousand deaths, 
Than wound my honor. 

2222 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Bid me for honor plunge iuto a war 
Of thickest foes, and rush on certain death, 
Then shalt thou see that Marcus is not slow 
To follow glory, and confess his father. 

2223 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Content thyself to be obscurely good. 

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, 
The post of honor is a private station. 

2224 Addison : Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
Give me, kind Heav'n, a private station, 

A mind serene for contemplation : 

Title and profit I resign ; 

The post of honor shall be mine. 

2225 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 2. 
Honor and shame from no condition rise ; 

Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 

2226 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 193. 
True, couscious honor is to feel no sin: 

He's arm'd without that's innocent within. 

2227 Pope : Satire iii. Line 93. 
If honor calls, where'er she points the way 

The sons of honor follow, and obey. 

2228 Churchill: Farewell Line 67 



238 HONOR — HOPE. 

The strongest passion which I have is honor. 

2229 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea. 
The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip 

To haud the wretch in order ; 
But where ye feel your honor grip, 
Let that aye be your border. 

2230 Burns : Ep. to a Young Friend. St. 8. 
I've scann'd the actions of his daily life 

With all the industrious malice of a foe ; 

And nothing meets my eye but deeds of honor. 

2231 Hannah More : Daniel. Pt. i. 

His honor rooted in dishonor stood, 

And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. 

2232 Tennyson : Idyls. Elaine. Line 884. 

HOPE. 

True hope is swift, and flies with swallows' wings ; 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

2233 Shales. : Bichard III. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there 

Where most it promises ; and oft it hits 
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits. 

2234 Shaks. : All's Well. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, 

And manage it against despairing thoughts. 

2235 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
The miserable have no other medicine, 

But only hope. 

2236 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward 

To what they were before. 

2237 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
The night is long that never finds the day. 

2238 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Yet I argue not 

Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot 
Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer 
Eight onward. 

2233 Milton : Sonnet xxii. 

Yet where an equal poise of hope and fear 
Does arbitrate the event, my nature is 
That I incline to hope rather than fear. 

2240 Milton : Comus. Line 410. 
So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear, 
Farewell remorse ! All good to me is lost. 

2241 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 108, 



HOPE. 239 

Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes, 
Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, 
And other ammunitions of despair, 
Were ever able to despatch bv fear. 

2242 Butler : Misc. TJwughts. Line 483. 
Full man}- a vessel threads the gates of morn, 

With spreading sails, and gold upon its prow, 
That ere the eve will bend beneath the storm, 
And we — how know we if our moments run 
To break on joy or sorrow? We can hope, 
But hope itself is born of doubt, my friends, 
Always in bud but never quite a flower. 

2243 Anna Katharine Green : Paul Isham. 
What is hope? A smiling rainbow 

Children follow through the net : 
'Tis not here — still yonder, yonder ; 
Never urchin found it yet. 

2244 Carlyle: Cui Bono, 
Hope in our hearts doth only stay 

Like a traveller at an inn, 

Who riseth up at the break of day 

His journey to begin. 

2245 Alice Cary : Thanksgiving. 
Hope newborn one pleasant morn 

Died at even ; 

Hope dead lives nevermore, 

No, not in heaven. 

2246 Christina G. Bossetti : Dead Hope. 
The Night is mother of the Hay, 

The Winter of the Spring, 

And ever upon old Decay 

The greenest mosses cling. 

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, 

Through showers the sunbeams fall; 

For God. who loveth all his works, 

Has left his Hope with all ! 

2247 Whittier : Dream of Summer. 
Life's fairest things are those which seem, 

The best is that of which we dream. 

2248 Whittier : Seeking of the Waterfall. St. 21. 
Ah, well ! for us all some sweet hope lies 

Deeply buried from human eves. 

2249 iVhittier : Maud. Midler. St. 54. 
Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim 

At objects in an airy height; 
The little pleasure of the game 
Is from afar to view the flight. 

2250 Prior : To the Hon. Charles Montague, 



240 HOPE. 

While there is life, there's hope, (he cried,) 
Then why such haste? — so groan'd and died. 

2251 ' Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 27 
Hope springs eternal in the human breast ; 

Man never is, but alwa} r s to be blest. 

The soul, uneasy and confined, from home, 

Bests and expatiates in a life to come. 

Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind 

Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. 

2252 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 95. 
Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; 

Wait the great teacher Death ; and God adore. 
What future bliss he gives not thee to know, 
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. 

2253 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 91. 
See some fit passion every age supply; 

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die. 

2254 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 273. 
Hope, eager hope, th' assassin of our joy, 

All present blessings treacling under foot, 
Is scarce a milder tyrant than despair. 

2255 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 107. 
Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here : 

Joy has her tears, and transport has her death; 
Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, 
Man's heart at once inspirits and serenes, 
Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys. 

2256 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 1450. 
Who bids me hope ! and, in that charming word, 

Has peace and transport to my soul restor'd. 

2257 Ld. Lyttelton : Progress of Love. Hope. Eel. ii. Line 41. 
None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, 

But love can hope, where reason would despair. 

2258 • Lord Lyttelton : Epigram. 
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, 

Adorns and cheers our way; 

And still, as darker grows the night, 

Emits a brighter ray. 

2259 Goldsmith : Captivity. Act ii. Song. 
The wretch, conclemn'd with life to part, 

Still, still on hope relies ; 

And every pang that rends the heart 

Bids expectation rise. 

22G0 Goldsmith : Captivity. Act ii. Song. (Orig. Ms.) 

Hope and fear alternate chase 
Our course through life's uncertain race. 

22G1 Scott: Bokeby. Canto vi. St. 2 



HOPE— HORSE. 241 

But while hope lives 
Let not the generous die. "Tis late before 
The brave despair. 

2262 Thomson : Sophonisba. Act i. Sc. 1. 

White as a white sail on a dusky sea, 
When half th' horizon's clouded and half free, 
Fluttering between the dun wave and the sky, 
Is hope's last gleam in man's extremity. 

2263 Byron : Island. Canto iv. St. 1. 

Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, 
And freedom shriek'd, asKoskiusko fell! 

2264 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. i. Line 381. 

Auspicious hope ! in thy sweet garden grow 
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for everv woe. 

2265 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt, i. Line 45. 

Unfading Hope ! when life's last embers burn, 
When soul to soul, and dust to dust return ! 
Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour ! 
Oh ! then thy kingdom comes ! immortal power ! 

2266 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 234. 

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, 
But leave, oh ! leave the light of Hope behind ! 
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, 
Like angel-visits, few and far between. 

2267 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 375. 

HORSE — HORSEMANSHIP — see Hunting-. 

Rouud-hoof'cl, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, 
Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, 
High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, 
Thin maue, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : 
Look, what a horse should have, he did not lack, 
Save a proud rider on so proud a back. 

2268 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 295. 

A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! 

2269 Shaks. : Packard III. Act v. Sc. 4. 

With flowing tail and flying mane, 
Wide nostrils — never stretch'd by pain, 
Mouths bloodless to the bit or rein, 
And feet that iron never shod, 
And flanks unscarr'd by spur or rod, 
A thousand horse — the wild — the free — 
Like waves that follow o'er the sea, 
Came thickly thundering on. 

2270 Byron : Mazeppa. St. 17. 



242 HORSEMANSHIP — HUMILITY. 

The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, 
And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit. 

2271 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Pt. iii. Line 1733, 
Then peers grew proud in horsemanship to excel, 
Newmarket's glory rose, as Britain's fell. 

2272 Pope : Satire v. Line 143. 

HOSPITALITY — see Beggars, Charity, Dinner, Welcome. 
I charge thee, invite them all ; let in the tide 
Of knaves once more : my cook and I'll provide. 

2273 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
My master is of churlish disposition, 

And little recks to find the way to heaven 
Bv doing deeds of hospitality. 

*2274 " Shaks. : As You Like Lt. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire 
To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire ; 
Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, 
And every stranger finds a ready chair; 
Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown' d, 
"Where all the ruddy family around 
Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail, 
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale, 
Or press the bashful stranger to his food, 
And learn the luxury of doing good. 

2275 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 13. 
He kept no Christmas-house for once a year ; 

Each day his boards were fill'd with lordly fare : 

He fed a rout of j T eomen with his cheer, 

Nor was his bread aud beef kept in with care : 

His wine and beer to strangers were not spare ; 

And yet beside to all that hunger griev'd 

His gates were ope, and they were there reliev'd. 

2276 Bobert Greene : A Maiden's Dream. 
Every house was an inn, where all were welcomed and 

feasted ; 

All things were held in common, and what one had was 
another's. 

2277 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. I. iv. Line 15. 

HUMILITY — see Birth. 

You shall mark 
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, 
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, 
Wears out his time much like his master's ass, 
Eor naught but provender; and, when he's old, cashier'd; 
Whip me such honest knaves. 

2278 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 1 



HUMILITY— HUNGER. 243 

Be wise; 
Soar not too high, to fall; but stoop to rise. 

2279 Massinger : Duke of Milan. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Lowliness is the base of every virtue : 

And he who goes the lowest, builds the safest. 

2280 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Home. 

My favored temple is an humble heart. 

2281 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Colonnade and Lawn. 

The heart grows richer that its lot is poor, — 
God blesses want with larger sympathies, — 
Love enters gladliest at the humble door, 
And makes the cot a palace with his eyes. 

2282 James Russell Lowell : Legend of Brittany. St. 4. 

Give me the lowest place : or if for me 
That lowest place too high, make one more low 
Where I may sit and see 
My God and love Thee so. 

2283 Christina G. Rossetti : TJie Lowest Place. 

He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, 
A cottage of gentility ! 
And the devil did grin, for his darling sin 
Is pride that apes humility. 

2284 Coleridge : Devil's Thoughts. 

He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, 

A cottage of gentility ; 

And he owned with a grin 

That his favorite sin 

Is pride that apes humility. 

2285 Southey : The Devil's Walk. St. 8. 

Humility, that low, sweet root, 

From which all heavenly virtues shoot. 

2286 Moore : Loves of the Angels. Third Angel's Story. 

HUMOR. 

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, 
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force ; 
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; 
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse ; 
And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure, 
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest. 

2287 Shaks. : Sonnet xcl 

HUNGER — see Appetite, Eating. 
Famish'd people must be slowly nurst, 
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst. 

2288 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 158. 



244 HUNGER — II I r NTING 

Man is a carnivorous production, 
And must have meals, at least one meal a day; 
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, 
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey. 
Although his anatomical construction 
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, 
Your laboring people think beyond all question, 
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. 

2289 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 67. 

HUNTING — see Horsemanship. 
Never did I hear 
Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, 
The skies, the fountains, every region near 
Seem all one mutual cry : I never heard 
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. 

2290 Shaks. : Mid. X. Dream. Act iv. Sc 1 . 

The healthy huntsman, with a cheerful horn, 
Summons the dogs and greets the dappled Morn. 
The jocund thunder wakes the enliven'd hounds, 
They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for sounds. 

2291 Gay : Bur al Sports. Canto ii. Line 96. 

In vain malignant streams and winter fogs 

Load the dull air, and hover round our coasts ; 

The huntsman, ever gay, robust, and bold, 

Defies the noxious vapor, and confides 

In this delightful exercise to raise 

His drooping head, and cheer his heart with joy. 

2292 Somerville : Chase. 1. Line 97. 

Fields, woods, and streams, 
Each tow'ring hill, each humble vale below, 
Shall hear my cheering voice ; my hounds shall wake 
The lazy morn, and glad th' horizon round. 

2293 Somerville : Chase. 4. Line 533. 

Hark ! the loud peal begins, the clam'rous joy, 
The gallant chiding loads the trembling air. 

2294 Somerville : Chase. 4. Line 402= 

Poor Jack, — no matter who, — for when I blame 
I pity, and must therefore sink the name, — 
Liv'd in his saddle, lov'd the chase, the course, 
And always ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse. 

2295 Cowper : Betirement. Line 575. 

He thought at heart like courtly Chesterfield, 
Who, after a long chase o'er hills, dales, bushes, 
And what not, though he rode bej r ond all price, 
Ask'd next day, " if men ever hunted tioice?" 

2296 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 35. 



HUNTING — HUSBAND. 245 

"Proud Nimrod first tlie bloody chase began, 
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. 

2297 Pope : Windsor Forest. Line 61. 
He broke, 'tis true, some statutes of the laws 

Of hunting — for the sagest youth is frail ; 
Rode o'er the hounds, it may be, now and then, 
And once o'er several country gentlemen. 

2298 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 33. 
When huntsmen wind the merry horn, 

And from its covert starts the fearful prey ; 

Who, warm'd with youth's blood in his swelling veins, 

Would, like a lifeless clod, outstretched lie, 

Shut up from all the fair creation oilers? 

2299 Joanna Baillie : Ethwald. Pt. i. Act i. Sc. 1. 

HURRICANE. 
What roar is that? — 'tis the rain that breaks 
In torrents away from the airy lakes , 
Heavily poured on the shuddering ground, 
And shedding a nameless horror round. 
Ah! well-known woods, and mountains, and skies, 
With the very clouds ! — ye are lost to my eyes. 
I seek ye vainly, and see in your place 
The shadowy tempest that sweeps through space, 

2300 William Cullen Bryant : The Hurricane, 
The hurricane's distant voice is heard 

"Uplifted among the mountains round, 
And the forests hear and answer the sound. 
He is come ! he is come ! do ye not behold 
His ample robes on the wind unrolled? 
Giant of air ! we bid thee hail ! 

2301 William Cullen Bryant : The Hurricane 
Know ye no sadness when the hurricane 

Has swept the wood and snapped its sturdy stems 
Asunder, or has wrenched, from out the soil, 
The mightiest with their circles of strong roots, 
And piled the ruin all along his path? 

2302 William Cullen Bryant : Among the Trees. 
Wilder grow the hurricanes 

Of all the winds. 

2303 Bryant's Homer's Odyssey. Bk. v. Line 364. 

HUSBAND — see Marriage, Wife. 

To all married men, be this a caution, 
Which they should duly tender as their life, 
"Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife. 

2304 Massing er : Picture. Act v. Sc. 8 



246 HUSBAND — HYPOCRISY. 

See, what a grace was seated on his brow : 
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; 
An eye like Mars, to threaten or command: 
A station like the herald Mercury, 
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; 
A combination, and a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man : 
This was }^our husband. 

2305 Shales. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
But, ye lords of ladies intellectual, 

Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you all? 

2306 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 22. 
As the husband is, the wife, is ; thou art mated with a clowu, 
And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag 

thee down. 
230? Tennyson : Locksley Hall. St. 24. 

HYMNS. 
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 
And turn delight into a sacrifice. 

2308 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 1. 

HYPOCRISY — see Deceit, Dissimulation, Falsity, Knavery, 
Lies. 

This outward-sainted depuly, — 
Whose settled visage and deliberate word 
Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth emmew 
As falcon doth the fowl, — is yet a devil. 

2309 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 

2310 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Weil said ; that was laid on with a trowel. 

2311 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Bear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted ; 
Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint. 

2312 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

To beguile the time. 
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, 
Your hand, your tongue : look like the innocent flower, 
But be the serpent under it. 

2313 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, 

For villany is not without such rheum; 
And he, long-traded in it, makes it seem 
Like rivers of remorse and innocency. 

2314 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. & 



HYPOCRISY. 247 

Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 

2315 Shales. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
"Why, I can smile, and murther while I smile : 

And cry, content, to that which grieves my heart ; 
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, 
And frame my face to all occasions. 

2316 Shahs. : 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, 

Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil; 
And thus I clothe my naked villany 
With odd old ends, stol'n forth of holy writ: 
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. 

2317 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides ! 

Who cover faults, at last with shame derides. 

2318 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 1. 
serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face ! 

Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? 
Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical ! 
Dove-feather'd raven ! wolfish-ravening lamb ! 
Despised substance of divinest show ! 
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, 
A damned saint, an honorable villain ! 

2319 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
'Tis too much prov'cl, that, with devotion's visage, 

And pious action , we do sugar o'er 
The devil himself. 

2320 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, 

Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. 

2321 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Divinity of hell ! 

When devils will the blackest sins put on, 
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows. 

2322 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3 
Xeither man nor augel can discern 

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks 

Invisible, except to God alone, 

By His permissive will, through Heaven and Earth; 

And oft, though Wisdom wake, Suspicion sleeps 

At Wisdom's gate, and to Simplicity 

Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill 

Where no ill seems. 

2323 Milton : Par. Lost. 3k. iii. Line 682 
And was the first 

That practised falsehood under saintly show, 
Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. 

2321 Milton : i\w\ Lost. Bk. iv. Line 12L 



848 HYPOCRISY. 

All live by seeming. 
The beggar begs with it, and the gay courtier 
Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming; 
The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier 
Will eke with it his service. — All admit it, 
All practise it ; and he who is content 
With showing what he is, shall have small credit 
In church, or camp, or state. — So wags the world. 

2325 Scott : Ivanhoe. Ch. xxxvii. Old Play 

Thou hast prevaricated with thy friend, 
By underhand contrivance hast undone me ; 
And while my open nature trusted in thee, 
Thou hast stepp'cl in between me and my hopes, 
And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear; 
Thou hast betray'd me. 

2326 Bowe : Lady Jane Grey. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Catius is ever moral, ever grave, 
Thinks who endures a knave, is next a knave, 
Save just at dinner — then prefers, no doubt, 
A rogue with venison to a saint without. 

2327 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 77. 

The world's all title-page ; there's no contents ; 
The world's all face; the man who shows his heart 
Is hooted for his nudities, and scorn'd. 

2328 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 341 

The theme divine at cards she'll not forget, 
But takes in texts of Scripture at picquet ; 
In those licentious meetings acts the prude, 
And thanks her Maker that her cards are good. 

2329 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 355. 

Hypocrisy, detest her as we may, 
(And no man's hatred ever wronged her yet,) 
May claim this merit still, that she admits 
The worth of what she mimics with such care, 
And thus gives virtue indirect applause. 

2330 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 100. 

Few men dare show their thoughts of worst or best ; 

Dissimulation always sets apart 

A corner for herself ; and therefore fiction 

Is that which passes with least contradiction. 

2331 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xv, St. 3 

He was the mildest manner'd man 
That ever scuttled ship, or cut a throat ! 
With such true breeding of a gentleman, 
You never could divine his real thought. 

2332 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 41. 



HYPOCRISY— IDLENESS. 249 

An open foe may prove a curse, 
But a pretended friend is worse. 

2333 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 17. 

A serpent with an angel's voice ! a grave 
With flowers bestrew'd. 

2331 Pollok : Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 641. 

The hypocrite had left his mask, and stood 
In naked ugliness. He was a man 
Who stole the livery of the court of heaven 
To serve the devil in. 

2335 Pollok: Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 615. 
In sermon style he bought, 

And sold, and lied ; and salutations made 
In scripture terms. He pray'cl by quantity, 
And with his repetitions, long and loud, 
All knees were weary. 

2336 Pollok : Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 628, 
A man may cry Church ! Church ! at ev'ry word 

With no more piety than other people — 
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird 
Because it keeps a cawing from a steeple. 

2337 Hood : Ode to Bae Wilson, Esq. Line 171. 
Hypocrisy infects the holy priest ! 

2338 Bobt. Greene : Looking- Glass for London and England. 



I. 

ICE. 

Look ! the massy trunks 
Are cased in the pure crystal ; each light spray, 
Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, 
Is studded with its trembling water-drops, 
That glimmer with an amethystine light. 
But round the parent-stem the long, low boughs 
Bend, in a glittering ring, and arbors hide 
The glassy floor. Oh ! you might deem the spot 
The spacious cavern of some virgin mine. 

2339 William Cullen Bryant : A Winter Piece. 

IDLENESS — see Sloth. 

What is a man, 
If his chief good, and market of his time, 
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. 
Sure, He, that made us with such large discourse, 
Looking before and after, gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To fust in us unused. 

2340 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4. 



250 IDLENESS — I GNORANCE. 

A lazy, lolling sort, 
Unseen at church, at senate, or at court, 
Of ever listless loit'rers, that attend 
No cause, no trust, no duty, and no friend. 

2311 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 337 

Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven designed; 
He that has none, must make them, or be wretched. 
Cares are employments ; and without emplo}" 
The soul is on a rack ; the rack of rest, 
To souls most adverse. 

2342 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 162. 
An idler is a watch that w T auts both hands; 

As useless if it goes as wheu it stands. 

2343 Cowper : Retirement. Line 681. 
Absence of occupation is not rest, 

A mind quite vacaut is a mind distress'd. 

2344 Cowper: Retirement. Line 623. 
Come hither, ye that press your beds of down 

And sleep not: see him sweating o'er his bread 
Before he eats it. — Tis the primal curse, 
But sof ten'cl into mercy : made the pledge 
Of cheerful dajs, and nights without a groan. 

2345 Cowper: Task. Bk. i. Line 362. 
Like a coy maiden, Ease, when courted most, 

Farthest retires — an idol, at whose shrine 
Who oftenest sacrifice are favored least. 

2346 Cowper : Task. Bk. i. Line 409 
How various his employments, whom the world 

Calls idle, and who justly, in return, 
Esteems that busy world an idler too ! 

2347 Covoper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 350. 
Of those forlorn and sad, thou might'st have marked, 

In number most innumerable stand 
The indolent : too lazy these to make 
Inquiry for themselves. 

2348 Pollok : Course of Time. Pt. viii. Line 299. 



IGNORANCE — see Knowledge. 

Ignorance is the curse of God, 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. 

2349 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
We, ignorant of ourselves, 

Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 
Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, 
By losing of our prayers. 

2350 ' Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. 8c. L 



IGNORANCE — IM A GIN A TION 251 

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 

As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 

235J Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 315. 

From ignorance our comfort flows, 
The only wretched are the wise. 

2352 Prior : To Hon. C. Montague. 
AVhere ignorauce is bliss 

'Tis folly to be wise. 

2353 Gray : Ode on Eton College. 
With just enough of learning to misquote. 

2354 Byron : English Bards. Line 66. 
Where blind and naked Ignorance 

Delivers brawling judgments, unashamed, 
On all things all clay long. 

2355 Tennyson : Vivien. Line 515, 
What mortal knows 

Whence come the tint and odor of the rose? 

What probing deep 

Has ever solved the mystery of sleep? 

2356 T. B. Aldrich : Human Ignorance. 

IMAGINATION — see Fancy. 
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact : 
One sees more devils than vast hell can hold — 
That is, the madman ; the lover, all as frantic, 
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt ; 
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, 
And, as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation, and a name. 

2357 Shaks. : 3Iid. N. Dream. Act v. Sc. 1, 
O, who can hold a fire in his hand, 

By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, 
By bare imagination of a feast? 

2358 Shaks. : Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Where are the charms and virtues which we dare 
Conceive in boyhood and pursue as men, 

The unreach'd Paradise of our despair. 

Which o'er informs the pencil and the pen, 

And overpowers the page where it would bloom again ! 

2359 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 122. 
Imagination is the air of mind. 

2360 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Another and a Better World 



252 IMA GIN A TION—IMM OR TALITY. 

O Fancy, if thou flycst, come back anon, 
Thy fluttering wings arc soft as love's lirst word, 
And fragrant as the feathers of that bird, 
Which feeds upon the budded cinnamon. 

23G1 Jean Ingelow : Fancy 

Do what he will, he cannot realize 
Half he conceives — the glorious vision flies; 
Go where he may, he cannot hope to And 
The truth, the beauty pictur'd in his mind. 

2362 Rogers: Human Lifr. Line 119 



IMITATION. 
To copy beauties forfeits all pretence 
To fame ; to copy faults is want of sense. 

23G3 Churchill : Bosciad. Line 457 

We love in others what we lack ourselves, 
And would be everything but what we are. 

2364 R. H. Stoddard : Arcadian Idyl 

IMMORTALITY. 
It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest Avell ! — 
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
This longing after immortality? 
Or whence this) secret dread, and inward horror 
Of falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul 
Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 
'Tis the divinity that stirs within us, 
'Tis heaven itself that points out an hereafter, 
And intimates eternity to man. 

2365 Addison :' Cato. Act v. Sc. 1 
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles 

At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. 
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years ; 
But thou shaft flourish in immortal youth, 
Unhurt amidst the war of elements, 
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. 

2366 Addison : Cato. Act v. Sc. 1. 
'"Immortal ! Ages past, yet nothing gone ! 

Morn without eve ! A race without a goal ! 
Unshorten'd by progression infinite! 
Futurity forever future ! Life 
Beginning still, where computation ends ! 
'Tis the description of a deity ! 

2367 Young : Night TJwughts. Night vi. Line 542 
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live for ever? 

Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? 
This is a miracle, and that no more. 

2368 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 1396 



IMMORTALITY — INCONSTANCY. 253 

Can it be? 
Matter immortal? and shall spirit die? 
Above the nobler shall less noble rise? 
Shall man alone, for whom all else revives, 
No resurrection know? Shall man alone, 
Imperial man ! be sown in barren ground. 
Less privileged than grain, on which he feeds? 

2369 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 701 

IMPLACABILITY. 
Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish. 

2370 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4. 

IMPLORING. 

Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery; 
For, where a heart is hard, they make no battery. 

2371 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 425 

IMPOSSIBILITY. 

And what's impossible can't be, 
And never, never comes to pass. 

2372 Colman, jr. : Maid of the Moor 

IMPRISONMENT. 

Captivity, 
That comes with honor, is true liberty. 

2373 Massinger : Fatal Dovmj. Act i. Sc. 2. 

IMPUDENCE. 
For he that has but impudence, 
To all things has a fair pretence ; 
And, put among his wants but shame, 
To all the world may lay his claim. 

2374 '. Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 17. 
With that dull, rooted, callous impudence, 

Which, dead to shame, and ev'ry nicer sense, 
Ne'er blushed, unless, in spreading vice's snares, 
She blunde'r'd on some virtue unawares. 

2375 Churchill : Rosciad. Line 13&> 

INCOME — i\ee Money, Prosperity. 
I've often wished that I had clear, 
Tor life, si;x hundred pounds a year, 
A handsome house to lodge a friend, 
A river at iky garden's end. 

2376 ' Pope : Im. of Horace. Bk. ii. Satire vi. Line 1, 

INCONSTANCY — see Change. 

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more ; 
Men were deceivers ever ; 
Oue foot in sea, and one on shore ; 
To one thing constant never. 

2377 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 3. Song. 



954 INCONSTANCY— INDEPENDENCE. 

Lv'n as one heat another heat expels, 

Or as one nail by strength drives out another; 

So the remembrance of my former love, 

Is by a newer object quite forgotten. 

2378 Shahs. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 4 
Look, as I blow this feather from my face, 

And as the air blows it to me again ; 
Obeying with nry wind, when I do blow, 
And yielding to another when it blows ; 
Commanded always by the greater gust : 
Such is the lightness of you common men. 

2379 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. l. 
Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, 

And daughters sometimes run oft' with the butler. 

2380 Byron; Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 22. 
There are three things a wise man will not trust, — 

The wind, the sunshine of an April day, 
And woman's plighted faith. 

2381 Southey : Madoc. Pt. ii. Caradoc and Senena. Line 51. 

INDEPENDENCE. 

Bless'd are those 
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled 
That they are not a pipe for fortune's linger 
To sound what stop she please. Give me that man 
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 
In my heart's core, aye, in my heart of heart, 
As I do thee. 

2382 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. % 
The man who by his labor gets 

His bread in independent state, 
"Who never begs, and seldom eats, 
Himself can fix or change his fate. 

2383 Prior : The Old Gentry. 
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 

But locks thro' nature up to nature's God. 

2384 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ?v. Line 331. 
Hail ! independence, hail ! heaven's next best gift, 

To that of life and an immortal soul ! 
The life of life ! that to the banquet high 
And sober meal gives taste ; to the bow'd roof 
Pair-dream'd repose, and to the cottage charms. 

2385 Thomson: Liberty. Pt v. Line 124. 
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; 

Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye, 
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, 
JXor heed the storm that howls along the sky. 

2386 Smollett : Ode to Independence, 



INDEPENDENCE — INDIFFERENCE. 255 

Hail! independence ! — by true reason taught, 
How few have known, and priz'd thee as they ought! 
Some give thee up for riot; some, like boys, 
Ilesign thee, in their childish moods, for toys ; 
Ambition some, some avarice, misleads, 
And, in both cases, Independence bleeds. 

2387 Churchill : Independence. Line 495, 
Gather gear by ev'ry wile 

That's justified by honor ; 
Not for to hide it in a hedge, 
Nor for a train attendant ; 
But for the glorious privilege 
Of being independent. 

2388 Burns : Epistle to a Young Friend. St. 7. 
I have not loved the world, nor the world me ; 

I have not flatter'cl its rank breath, nor bow'd 

To its idolatries a patient knee, 

Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud 

In worship of an echo ; in the crowd 

They could not deem me one of such ; I stood 

Among them, but not of them. 

2389 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 113. 
INDEX. 

Index-learning turns no student pale, 
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 

2390 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 279. 
INDIAN SUMMER. 

To her bier 

Comes the year 

Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, 

But, to guide her way to it, 

All the trees have torches lit. 

2391 Lucy Larcom : Indian Summer. 
The Indian Summer, the dead Summer's soul. 

2392 Mary Clemmer : Presence, 

INDIFFERENCE — see Hate, Scorn. 

The time was that I hated thee ; 
And yet it is not that I bear thee love. 
But since thou canst talk of love so well, 
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me, 
I will endure ; and I'll employ thee too ; 
But do not look for further recompense. 

2393 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
"What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba. 

2394 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
A primrose by a river's brim, 

A yellow primrose was to him, 
And it was nothing more. 

2395 Wordsworth : Peter Bell. Pt. i. St. 12 



256 INDIFFERENCE — INFANCY. 

Shall I, wasting in despair, 
Die because a woman's fair? 
Or make pale my cheeks with care, 
'Cause another's rosy are? 
Be she fairer than the day, 
Or the flow'ry meads in May, 
If she be not so to me, 
What care I how fair she be? 

2396 George Wither: Shepherd's Resolution, 
Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; 

What's he to me, or I to him. 

2397 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. iv. Line 215. 

I care for nobody, no, not I, 
If nobody cares for me. 

2398 Bickerstaff: Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 3. 

INDUSTRY — see Action, Activity, Decision, Perseverance. 
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
Which we ascribe to Heav'n. The fated sky 
Gives us free scope ; only doth backward pull 
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 

2399 Shahs. : AIVs Well. Act i. Sc. 1. 
The sweat of industry would dry, and die, 

But for the end it works to. 

2400 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 6. 
In every rank, or great or small, 

'Tis industry supports us all. 

2401 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 8. 
In works of labor, or of skill, 

I would be busy too, 

For Satan finds some mischief still 

For idle hands to do. 

2402 Watts : Hymns. No. xx. 
Protected industry, careering far, 

Detects the cause and cures the rage of War, 

And sweeps, with forceful arm, to their last graves, 

Kings from the earth and pirates from the waves. 

2403 Joel Barlow : To Freedom, 

INFANCY — see Childhood, 
Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, 
Death came with friendly care ; 
The opening bud to heav'n convey'd, 
And bade it blossom there. 

2404 Coleridge : Epitaph on an Infant. 
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure. 

2405 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Education. 



INF A NC Y — INFIDELITY. 257 

He that of greatest works is finisher, 
Oft does them by the weakest minister; 
So Holy Writ in babes hath judgment shown, 
When judges have been babes. 

2406 Shaks. : All's Well. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

INFIDELITY, in Religion — .see Bible, Religion. 
Not, thus, our infidels th' eternal draw, 
A God all o'er, consummate, absolute, 
Full-orb'd, in his whole round of rays complete ; 
They set at odds Heav'n's jarring attributes ; 
And, with one excellence, another wound, 
Maim Heav'n's perfection, break its equal beams, 
Bid mercy triumph over God himself, 
Uncleified by their opprobrious praise : 
A God all mercy is a God unjust. 

2407 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 225. 
If man loses all, when life is lost, 

He lives a coward, or a fool expires. 

A daring infidel (and such there are, 

From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, 

Or pure heroical defect of thought,) 

Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain. 

2408 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 199. 
A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man ; 

Some sinister intent taints all he does. 

2409 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 711. 
And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, 

Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. 

2410 " Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 107, 
INFIDELITY, Personal — see Frailty, Fickleness. 

O, she is fallen 
Into a pit of ink ! that the wide sea 
Hath drops too few to wash her clean again ; 
And salt too little, which may season give 
To her foul tainted flesh ! 

2411 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
She's gone; I am abus'd; and my relief 

Must be to loathe her. 

2412 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Another daughter dries a father's tears ; 

Another sister claims a brother's love ; 
An injured husband hath no other wife, 
Save her who wrought him shame. 

2413 Maturin : Bertram, iv. 2. 
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, 

" Your lord will soon return," no pleasure brings. 

2414 Maturin : Bertram, ii. 5. 



2 5 8 INF IDE LIT Y — I NFL FENCE. 

In her first passion, woman loves her lover; 

In all the others all she loves is love, 

Which grows a habit she can ne'er get over, 

And fits her loosely — like an easy glove, 

As you may find, whene'er you like to prove her. 

2115 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 3. 

Though my many faults defaced me, 
Could no other arm be found, 
Than the one which once embraced me, 
To inflict a cureless wound. 

2416 Byron: Fare Thee Well. 

Oh ! colder than the wind that freezes 
Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, 
Is that congealiug pang which seizes 
The trusting bosom when betray'd. 

2417 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers. 

INFLUENCE. 

I shot an arrow into the air; 
It fell to earth, I knew not where ; 
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight 
Could not follow it in its flight. 

I breathed a soug into the air ; 
It fell to earth, fknew not where; 
For who has sight so keen and strong, 
That it can follow the flight of song? 

Long, long afterward, in an oak 
I found the arrow, still uu broke; 
And the song, from beginning to end, 
I found again in the heart of a friend. 

2418 Longfellow : T7ie Arrovi and The Song. 

I am a part of all that I have met. 

2419 Tennyson : Ulysses. Line 18. 

He thought all loveliness was lovelier, 
She crowning it ; all goodness credible, 
Because of the great trust her goodness bred. 

2420 George Eliot : The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. ii. 

My work is mine, 
And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked, 
I should rob God — since he is fullest good 

2421 George Eliot. Stradivarius. 
No life 

Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, 
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby. 

2422 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 40 



INGRATITUDE. 259 

INGRATITUDE — see Curses. 
I hate ingratitude more in a man 
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, 
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption 
Inhabits our frail blood. 

2423 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 
As man's ingratitude ; 
Thy tooth is not so keen, 
Because thou art not seen, 
Although thy breath be rude. 

2424 " Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. Song. 

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal 
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

2425 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, 

"Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 

A great-sized monster of ingratitudes. 

Those scraps are good deeds past ; which are devoured 

As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 

As done. 

2426 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

I'm rapt, and cannot co^er 
The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude 
With any size of words. 

2427 * Shaks.: Timon of A. Act v. Sc. 1. 

The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, 
That it had its head bit off by its young. 

2428 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, 

More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child, 

Than the sea-monster ! 

2429 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. 

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child. 

2430 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Filial ingratitude ! 
Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand, 
For lifting food to 't? 

2431 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4 

Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good, 
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors 
Are barren in return. 

2432 Roive : Tamerlane. Act ii. Sc. L 



260 INGRATITUDE — INNOCENCE. 

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one ; 
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. 

2433 Young: Busiris. 
So the struck eagle stretch'd upon the plain, 

Xo more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, 
And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart : 
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel 
He nurs'cl the pinion which impelled the steel. 

2434 Byron : English Bards. Line 828. 
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree 

I planted, — they have torn me, — and I bleed ; 
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a 
seed. 

2435 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 10. 

INHUMANITY. 

A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch 
Uncapable of pity, void and empty 
From any dram of mercv. 

2436 ' Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. I 

INJURY. 

The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief 
To him that bears the strong offence's cross. 

2437 Shaks. : Sonnet xxxiv. 
INK. 

Let there be gall enough in thy ink; 
Though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. 

2438 Shaks. : Tic. Night. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

INN — see Tavern. 

Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, 
Where'er his stages may have been, 
May sigh to think he still has found, 
The warmest welcome at an inn. 

2439 Shenstone : Lines on Windoio of Inn at Henley 
Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, 

Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye, 
Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired, 
Where graybearcl mirth and smiling toil retired, 
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, 
And news much older than their ale went round. 

2440 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 219. 
Where you have friends you should not go to inns. 

2441 George Eliot : Agatha. 

INNOCENCE. 
The silence often of pure innocence 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 

2442 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



INNO CENCE — INS TINGT. 2 6 1 

Innocence shall make 
False accusation blush, and tyranny 
Tremble at patience. 

2443 Shales. : Wint. Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Against the head which innocence secures, 

Insidious Malice aims her darts in vain, 

Turn'd backwards by the powerful breath of heav'n. 

2444 Br. Johnson : Irene. Act v. Sc, 6, 
INSPIRATION. 

How can my Muse want subject to invent, 

While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse 

Thine own sweet argument, too excellent 

For every vulgar paper to rehearse? 

O, give thyself the thanks, if aught in me 

Worthy perusal stand against thy sight : 

For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee, 

When thou thyself dost give invention light? 

Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth 

Than those old nine, which rhymers invocate ; 

And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth 

Eternal numbers to outlive long date. 

If my slight Muse do please these curious days, 

The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise. 

2445 Shaks. : Sonnet xxxviii 
INSTINCT — see Reason. 

Then vainly the philosopher avers 

That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs. 

How can we justly different causes frame, 

When the effects entirely are the same? 

Instinct and reason how can we divide? 

'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. 

2446 Prior: Solomon on the V. of the World. Bk. i. Line 231. 
The spieler's touch, how exquisitely fine ! 

Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : 
In the nice bee what sense, so subtly true 
From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew? 
How instinct varies in the grov'liug swine, 
Compar'd, half-reasoning efephant, with thine ! 
'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier ! 
Forever sep'rate, yet forever near. 

2447 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 217. 
Who taught the nations of the field and wood 

To shun their poison and to choose their food. 

2448 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 99. 
Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; 
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; 

Thy arts of building from The bee receive ; 
Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. 

2449 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 173 



202 INSTRUCTION— IT AL Y. 

INSTRUCTION - see Education. 
It is a good divine that follows his 
Own instructions ; I can easier teach twenty 
What were good to be done, than be one 
Of the twenty to follow mine own teaching : 
The brain may devise laws for the blood ; but 
A hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree. 

2450 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2 
INTEGRITY — sec Conscience, Honor. 

What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. 

2451 Shaks.: 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
INTELLIGENCE. 

'Tis good- will makes intelligence. 

24.32 Emerson : The Titmouse. Line Go. 

INVENTION. 

Th' invention all aclmir'd, and each how he 
■ To be th' inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd, 

Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought 

Impossible ! 

2453 Milton : Peer. Lost. Bk. vi. Line 498. 
IRRESOLUTION — see Delay, Doubt. 

Like a man to double business bound. 
I stand in pause where I shall first begin, 
And both neglect. 

2454 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3 
ITALY. 

How has kind heaven adorn'd the happy land, 
And scatter'd blessings with a wasteful hand ! 
But what avail her inexhausted stores, 
Her blooming mountains, and her sunny shores, 
With all the gifts that heaven and earth impart, 
The smiles of nature, and the charms of art. 
While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, 
And tyranny usurps her happy plains? 

2455 Addison : A Letter from Italy. Line 105. 
Far to the right where Apennine ascends, 

Bright as the summer Italy extends : 

Its uplands sloping deck the mountain's side, 

Woods over woods in gay theatric pride ; 

While oft some temple's mould'ring tops between 

With venerable 2,rancleur marks the scene. 

2456 Goldsmith : TraceUer. Line 105. 
Italia ! Italia ! thou who hast 

The fatal gift of beauty, which became 

A funeral dower of present woes and past, 

On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, 

And annals graved in characters of flame. 

2457 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 42. 



ITAL Y— JEAL US Y. 263 

Fair Italy ! 
Thou art the garden of the world, the home 
Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree. 
Even in thy desert, what is like to thee? 
Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste 
More rich than other climes' fertility; 
Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced 
With an immaculate charm which cannot be defac'd. 
2458 Byron : Oh. Harold. Canto iv. St. 2& 

IVY. 

Oh ! how could fancy crown with thee, 
In ancient days, the God of Wine, 
And bid thee at the banquet be 
Companion of the vine? 
Ivy ! thy home is where each sound 
Of revelry hath long been o'er ; 
Where song and beaker once went round, 
But now are known no more. 
2-159 Mrs. Hemans : Ivy Song. 



JANUARY. 

Come, ye cold winds, at January's call, 

On whistling wings, and with white flakes bestrew 

The earth. 

2460 RusMn : The Months. 

JEALOUSY. 
The venom clamours of a jealous woman 
Poison more deadlv than a mad dog's tooth. 

2461 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1= 
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 

2462 Shaks. : Samlet. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
Trifles, light as air, 

Are to the jealous confirmations strong 
As proofs of Holv Writ. 

2463 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
0. what damned minutes tells he o'er. 

Who dotes, vet doubts: suspects, vet fondlv loves : 

2464 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Nothing extenuate. 

Nor set down aught in malice : then must you speak 
Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well: 
Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought, 
Perplex'd in the extreme. 

2465 Shaks. : Othello, Act v. Sc. 2. 



264 JEALOUSY. 

beware, my lord, of jealousy ; 
It is the green-eyed mouster, which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on. 

2466 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii Sc. 3 

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, 

To follow still the changes of the moon 

With fresh suspicions? No : to be once in doubt, 

Is once to be resolved. 

2467 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Where Love reigns, disturbing Jealousy 

Doth call himself Affection's sentinel; 
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny, 
And in a peaceful hour doth cry, " Kill, kill ! " 
Distempering gentle love in his desire, 
As air and water do abate the fire. 

2468 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 649. 

No true love there can be without 
Its dread penalty — jealousy. 

2469 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto i. St. 24. 

Oh, jealousy ! thou bane of pleasing friendship, 
How does thy rancor poison all our softness, 
And turn our gentle natures into bitterness ! 

2470 Botve : Jane Shore. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

To doubt's an injury; to suspect a friend 
Is breach of friendship : jealousy's a seed, 
Sown but in vicious minds ; prone to mistrust, 
Because apt to deceive. 

2471 Lord Lansdowne : Heroic Love. Act iii. Sc. 1, 

But through the heart 
Should jealousy its venom once diffuse, 
'Tis then delightful misery no more, 
But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, 
Corroding every thought, and blasting all 
Love's paradise. 

2472 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 1075 

Ten thousand fears 
Invented wild, ten thousand frantic views 
Of horrid rivals, hanging on the charms 
For which he melts in fondness, eat him up 
With fervent anguish and consuming rage. 

2473 Thomson: Seasons. Spring. Line 1092, 
It is jealousy's peculiar nature 

To swell small things to great ; nay, out of nought 
To conjure much, and then to lose its reason 
Amid the hideous phantoms it has formed. 

2474 Young : Revenge. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



JEALOUSY— JESUITS. 265 

All seems infected that the infected spy, 
As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye. 

2475 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 358. 
Her maids were old, and if she took a new one, 

You might be sure she was a perfect fright. 
She did this during even her husband's life — 
I recommend as much to every wife. 

2476 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 48. 
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, 

For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. 

2477 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. G5. 
jealousy, 

Thou ugliest fleucl of hell! thy deadly veuom 
Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue 
Of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, 
And drinks my spirit up ! 

2478 Hannah More : David and Goliah. Pt. v. 

JESTS — see Jokes, Wit. 
This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas, 
And utters it again when Jove doth please ; 
He is wit's peddler ; and retails his wares 
At wakes and wassels, meetings, markets, fairs; 
And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, 
Have not the grace to grace it with such show. 

2479 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. 
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 
Of him that makes it. 

2480 Shahs. : Love's L. Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Laugh not too much ; the witty man laughs least : 

Tor wit is news only to ignorance : 

Less at thine own things laugh ; lest in the jest 

Thy person share, and the conceit advance. 

Make not thy sport abuses : for the fly 

That feeds on dung is colored thereby. 

2481 Herbert: Temple." Church Porch. St. 39. 
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, 

Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. 

Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, 

Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart. 

2482 Dr. Johnson : London. Line 156. 
JESUITS. 

For none but Jesuits have a mission 
To preach the faith with ammunition, 
And propagate the church with powder, 
Their founder was a blown-up soldier. 

2483 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 150k 



266 JEWS — JOY. 

JEWS. 

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. 

2484 Shales. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3 

JOKES — see Jest, Wit. 
And geutle Dulness ever loves a joke. 

2485 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. ii. Line 34. 

JOURNALISTS. 

To serve thy generation, this thy fate : 
Written in water, swiftly fades thy name ; 
But he who loves his kind does, first and late, 
A work too great for fame. 

2486 Mary Clemmer : The Journalist. Last St. 

JOY. 

Joys 
Are bubble-like — what makes them, 
Bursts them too. 

2487 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea. 

Joys, like beauty, but skin deep. 

2488 Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Village Feast. 
O joy, hast thou a shape? 

Hast thou a breath? 

How fillest thou the soundless air? 

Tell me the pillars of thy house ! 

What rest thev on? Do thev escape 

The victory of Death? 

And are they fair 

Eternally, who enter in thy house? 

O Joy, thou viewless spirit, canst thou dare 

To tell the pillars of thy house? 

2489 Helen Hunt : Joy 
Capacity for joy 

Admits temptation. 

2490 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. i. Line 703. 
How natural is joy, my heart ! 

How easy after sorrow ! 

For once, the best is come that hope 

Promised them " to-morrow." 

2491 Jean Ingelow : Song of Night Watches. Morn. Watch. 

Joy is the mainspring in the whole 
Of endless Nature's calm rotation. 
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll 
In the great Time-piece of Creation. 

2492 Schiller : Hymn to Joy 



JUNE — JURIES. 2 G 7 

JUNE. 
June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers ; 
In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, 
In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, 
Her hours are numbered on the floral dial. 

2493 Lucy Larcom : Death of June. Line 1. 

June is dead, 
Dead, without dread or pain, her gayest wreaths 
Twined with her own hands for her funeral. 

2494 Lucy Larcom : Death of June. Line 13. 

Flowery June, 
"When brooks send up a cheerful tune, 
And groves a joyous sound. 

2495 William Cullen Bryant : June. 

And what is so rare as a day in June? 
Then, if ever, corne perfect days ; 
Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, 
And over it softly her warm ear lays. 

2496 James Bussell Lowell : Vision of Sir LaunfaZ. 

'Twas an evening of beauty; the air was perfume, 
The earth was all greenness, the trees were all bloom 
And softly the delicate viol was heard, 
Like the murmur of love or the notes of a bird. 

2497 lUiittier: Cities of the Plain. 

JURIES — sec Justice. 
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
Maj', in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two 
Guiltier than him they try. 

2498 Shales. : 31. for 31. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Do not your juries give their verdict 
As if they felt the cause, not heard it? 
And as they please make matter of fact 
Bun all on one side as they're packt. 

2499 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 365- 

This box contains a man of wit ; 

A man of sense, a man not fit; 

A man of strength, a man of place; 

A man devoid of every grace ; 

A man of rank, a man of none ; 

A man who'd rather be at home ; 

A man of luck, a man of taste ; 

A man who would his country waste : 

These men, when sworn, a jury make, 

To clear up many a mistake. 

2500 Author Unknown. 



2G8 JUSTICE. 

JUSTICE — see Criticism, Guilt, Law. 
I beseech you, 
Wrest once the law to your authority : 
To do a great right, do a little wrong. 

2501 SJiaJcs. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
A Daniel come to judgment; yea, a Daniel! 

O wise young judge, how I do honor thee ! 

2502 Shales. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
And then, the justice; 

In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances, 
And so he plays his part. 

2503 Shales. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
If I shall be condemn'd 

Upon surmises ; all proofs sleeping else, 
But what your jealousies awake, I tell you, 
'Tis rigor, and not law. 

2504 Shales. : Wint. Tale. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Poise the cause in justice' equal scales, 

Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails. 

2505 Shales. : 2 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
I do believe, 

Induc'd by potent circumstances, that 
You are mine enemy: and make my challenge, 
You shall not be my judge : for it is you 
Have blown this coal betwixt my lord aud me. 

2506 Shales. : Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to plague us. 

2507 Shales. : King Lear. Act v Sc. 3. 

A man busied about decrees, 
Condemning some to death, and some to exile, 
Eansoming him or pitying, threatening the other. 

2508 Shales. : Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 6. 
The hope of all who suffer, 

The dread of all who wrong. 

2509 Whittier : Mantle of St. John Be Matha. 
The gods 

Grow angry with your patience : 'tis their care, 
And must be yours, that guilty men escape not : 
As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. 

2510 Ben Jonson : Catiline. Act iii. Sc. 4, 
Justice, while she winks at crimes, 

Stumbles on innoceuce sometimes. 

2511 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 1177 



JUS TICE — KINGS. 



269 



Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, 

Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, 

And solid pudding agaiust empty praise. 

2512 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 52. 
The hungry judges soou the senteuce sign, 

Aud wretches hang, that jurymen may dine. 

2513 Pope : R. of the Lock. Canto iii. Line 21. 
'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none 

Go just alike, yet each believes his own. 

2514 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 0. 
Wit aud judgment often are at strife, 

Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 

2515 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 82. 
Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice 
Triumphs. 

2516 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. I. iii. Line 34. 



K. 



KINDNESS— see Benevolence, Charity, Forbearance .Nature. 
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, 
Shall win my love. 

2517 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life 

But needs it and may learn. 

2518 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Home. 
Be to her virtues very kind ; 

Be to her faults a little blind. 

2519 Prior: An English Padlock. 



KINGS — see Court, Loyalty, Princes, Royalty, War. 
The king-becoming graces 
Are justice, verity, temperance, stableness, 
Bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, 
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude. 

2520 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Not all the water in the rough rude sea 

Can wash the balm from- an anointed king : 
The breath of worldly men cannot depose 
The deputy elected by the Lord. 

2521 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
The presence of a king engenders love 

Amongst his subjects, and his loyal friends. 

2522 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1, 



270 KINGS. 

When we are wrong'd, and would unfold our griefs, 

We are denied access unto his person, 

Even by those men that most have done us wrong. 

2523 Shales. : 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 1 
O majesty ! 

When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit 
Like a rich armor worn in heat of day, 
That scalds with safety. 

2524 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
If I could find example 

Of thousands, that had struck anointed kings, 
And flourish'd after, I'd not do't : but since 
Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears not one, 
Let villany itself forswear't. 

2525 Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

2526 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
"What have kings that privates have not too, 

Save ceremony? 

2527 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Come hither, England's hope : If secret powers 

Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts, 
This pretty lad will prove our country's bliss. 
His looks are full of peaceful majesty ; 
His head by nature fram'cl to wear a crown, 
His hand to wield a sceptre : and himself 
Likely, in time, to bless a regal throne. 

2528 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 6. 
The hearts of princes kiss obedience, 

So much they love it : but, to stubborn spirits, 
They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. 

2529 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
There's such divinity doth hedge a king, 

That treason can but peep to what it would, 
Acts little of his will. 

2530 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
A crown, 

Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, 

Brings dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights, 

To him who wears the regal diadem, 

When on his shoulders each man's burthen lies, 

Eor therein stands the office of a king, — 

His honor, virtue, merit, and chief praise, — 

That for the public all this weight he bears. 

2531 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. ii. Line 458. 
What is a king? a man condemn'd to bear 

The public burthen of the nation's care. 

2532 Prior: Solomon. Bk. iii. Line 275. 



KINGS. 271 

Here lies our sovereign lord the king, 
Whose word no man relics on ; 
He never says a foolish thing, 
And never does a wise one. 

2533 Rochester : Written on Bedchamber Door of Chas. II. 
Unbounded power and height of greatness give 
To kings that lustre which we think divine ; 
The wise who know them, know they are but men, 
Xay, sometimes weak ones too : the crowd indeed, 
Who kneel before the image, not the God, 
"Worship the deity their hands have made. 

253f Boice : Ambitious Stepmother. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

We too are friends to loyalty. We love 
The king who loves the law, respects his bounds, 
And reigns content within them. Him we serve 
Freely and with delight, who leaves us free ; 
But recollecting still that he is man, 
We trust him not too far. 

2535 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 330. 
He is ours, 

T' administer, to guard, t' adorn the state, 
But not to warp or change it. We are his, 
To serve him nobly in the common cause, 
True to the death, but not to be his slaves. 

2536 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 340= 
All these men, or their fathers, were my friends 

Till they became my subjects ; then fell from me 
As faithless leaves drop from the o'erblown flower, 
And left me a lone blighted thorny stalk, 
Which iu its solitude can shelter nothing. 

2537 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
A crown! what is it? 

It is to bear the miseries of a people ! 

To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, 

And sink beneath a load of splendid care ! 

To have your best success ascribed to fortune, 

And fortune's failures all ascribed to you ! 

It is to sit upon a joyless height, 

To ev'ry blast of changing fate expos'cl ! 

Too high for hope ! too great for happiness ! 

2538 Hannah More: Daniel. Pt. vl 
The wisest sovereigns err like private men, 

And royal hand has sometimes laid the sword 
Of chivalry upon a worthless shoulder, 
Which better had been branded by the hangman. 
What then? Kings do their best — and they and we 
Must answer for th' intent, and not th' event. 

2539 Scott : Kenilworth. Ch. xxxii. Old Play. 



272 KISSING. 

KISSING — sec Courtship. 

Then kiss rac hard, 
As if he pluck'cl up kisses bj^ the roots, 
That grew upon my lips. 

2540 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
You may ride us, 

With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 

2541 Shales. : Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Teach not thy lip such scorn ; for it was made 
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. 

2542 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Give me one kiss, I'll give it to thee again; 

And one for interest, if thou wilt have twain. 

2543 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 209. 
Touch but my lips with those fair lips of thine, 
(Though mine be not so fair, yet are they red) 

The kiss shall be thine own as well as mine ; — 
What seest thou in the ground? hold up thy head : 
Look in mine eyeballs ; there thy beauty lies : 
Then why not lips on lips, since eyes in eyes? 

2544 Shaks.: Venus and A. Line 115. 
Some there be that shadows kiss, 

Such have but a shadow's bliss. 

2545 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. 
Give me kisses ! Nay, 'tis true 

I am just as rich as you ; 

And for every kiss I owe, 

I can pay you back, you know. 

Kiss me, then, 

Every moment — and again. 

2546 J. G. Saxe : To Lesbia. 
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score ; 

Then to that twenty add an hundred more ; 
A thousand to that hundred ; so kiss on, 
To make that thousand up a million ; 
Treble that million, and when that is done, 
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun. 

2547 Herrick : Aph. To Anthea. 
When my lips meet thine 

Thy very soul is wedded unto mine. 

2548 II. II. Boyesen : Thy Gracious Face I Greet with 

IGlad Surprise. 
Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed 
On cheeks and neck and ej T elids, and so led 
Back to her mouth which answers there for all. 

2549 Dante Gabriel Bossetti : Love- Sweetness. Sonnet xiil 



KISSING. 273 

I rest content, I kiss your eyes, 
I kiss your hair, in my delight : 
I kiss my hand, and say, Good-night. 

2550 Joaquin Miller: Isles of the Amazons. Pt. v, 

Sweeter than the stolen kiss 
Are the granted kisses. 

2551 Bayard Taylor: Improvisations. St. 5. 
delicious kiss, 

Why thou so suddenly art gone? 
Lost in the moment thou art won? 

2552 Peter Pindar : Pindariana. To a Kiss. 
The kiss you take is paid by that you give, 

The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt. 

2553 Lord Lansdowne : Heroic Love. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Love, O fire ! once he drew 

With one long kiss my whole soul through 
My lips, as sunlight clrinketh dew. 

2554 Tennyson : Fatima. St. 3, 
Drink to me only with thine eyes, 

And I will pledge with mine ; 
Or leave a kiss but in the cup, 
And I'll not look for wine. 

2555 Ben Jonson : The Forest. Song to Celia. 
" Kiss " rhymes to "bliss " in fact, as well as verse. 

255G • Byron: Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 59. 

1 love the sex, and sometimes would reverse 
The tyrant's wish, " That mankind only had 

One neck, which he with one fell stroke might pierce." 

My wish is quite as wide, but not so bad, 

And much more tender on the whole than fierce ; 

It being (not now, but only while a lad) 

That womankind had but one rosy mouth, 

To kiss them all at once from north to south. 

2557 Byron : Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 27 
A Jong, long kiss, a kiss of youth and love, 

And beauty, all concentrating like rays 

Into one focus, kindled from above; 

Such kisses as belong to early days, 

Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move, 

And the blood's lava, and the pulse a blaze. 

Each kiss a heart-quake, for a kiss's strength, 

I think, it must be reckon'd by its length. 

2558 Byron : Don Jtian. Canto ii. St. 186. 

One kiss — and then another — and another — 
Till 'tis too late to go — and so return. 

2559 Charles King sley : Saint's Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 10. 



2 74 KNA VER Y— KNO WEED GE. 

KNAVERY. 

The Moor's abus'd by some most villanous knave, 
Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow ; 
O heaven, that such companions thou'dst unfold, 
And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascals naked through the world ! 

2560 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
As thistles wear the softest down 

To hide their prickles till they're grown, 
And then declare themselves, and tear 
Whatever ventures to come near ; 
So a smooth knave does greater feats 
Thau one that idly rails and threats. 

2561 Butler. : Misc. Thotights. Line 201. 
Thy beard and head are of a diff rent dye ; 

Short of one foot, distorted in an eye : 
With all these tokens of a knave complete, 
Should'st thou be honest, thou'rt a dev'lish cheat. 

2562 Addison's Translation of Martial. Bk. xii. 54. 

KNOWLEDGE — see Genius, Ignorance, Learning-, Wisdom. 
The charm dissolves apace ; 
And, as the morning steals upon the night, 
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses 
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle 
Their clearer reason. 

2563 Shaks.: Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. 
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. 

2564 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, 

The lowest of your throng. 

2565 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 830. 
Knowledge is as food, and needs no less 

Her temp'rance over appetite, to know 
In measure what the mind may well contain ; 
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns 
Wisdom to folly. 

2566 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vii. Line 126. 
He knew what's what, and that's as high 

As metaphysic wit can fly. 

2567 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 149 
He knew what ever's to be known, 

But much more than he knew would own. 

2568 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto iii. Line 297. 
All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 

2569 Pope: Essatj on Man. Epis. iv Line 397 



KNO W LEDGE — LA B OR. 2 75 

Half our knowledge we must suatch, not take. 

2570 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 40. 
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, 

The proper study of mankind is Man. 

2571 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 1. 
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, 

Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells 
In heads replete with thoughts of other men, 
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. 

2572 Cowper: Task. Bk. vi. Line 88. 
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; 
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 

2573 Cowper: Task. Bk. vi. Line 96. 
Knowledge is not happiness, and science 

But an exchange of ignorance for that 
Which is another kind of ignorance. 

2574 Byron ; Manfred. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Sorrow is knowledge ; they who know the most, 

Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, 
The tree of knowledge is not that of Life. 

2575 Byron : Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Deep subtle wits, 

In truth, are master spirits in the world. 
The brave man's courage, and the student's lore, 
Are but as tools his secret ends to work, 
Who hath the skill to use them. 

2576 Joanna Baillie : Basil. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Knowledge is 
Bought only with a weary care, 
And wisdom means a world of pain. 

2577 Joaquin Miller : Even So. 
I know — is all the mourner saith, 

Knowledge by suffering entereth ; 
And Life is perfected by Death ! 

2578 Mrs. Browning : Vision of Poets. St. 330. 



L. 

LABOR — see Activity, Genius, Vocation. 
The labor we delight in physics pain. 

2579 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Labor, you know, is Prayer. 

2580 Bayard Taylor : Improvisations. St. 11. 
From labor health, from health contentment springs. 

2581 Beattie : Minstrel. Bk. i. St. 13 



276 LABOR. 

Such hath it been — shall be — beneath the sun 
The many still must labor for the one. 

2582 Byron : Corsair. Canto i. St. 8. 

The task he undertakes 
Is numb'ring sands, and drinking- oceans dry. 

2583 Shaks. : Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

I have seen a swan 
With bootless labor swim against the tide, 
And spend her strength with over-matching waves. 

2584 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Defend me, therefore, common sense, say I, 
From reveries so airy, from the toil 
Of dropping buckets into empty wells, 
And growing old in drawing nothing up. 

2585 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 185. 

Labor with what zeal we will, 
Something still remains undoue, 
Something uncompleted still 
Waits the rising of the sun. 

2586 Longfellow: Something Left Undone. St. 1. 
Taste the joy 

That springs from labor. 

2587 Longfellow : Masque of Pandora. Pt- vi. 

Clamorous labor 
Knocked with its hundred hands at the golden gates of the 
morning. 

2588 Longfellow: Evangeline. Pt. I. iv. Line 4. 

O, the toils of life ! 
How small they seem when love's resistless tide 
Sweeps brightly o'er them ! Like the scattered stones 
Within a mountain streamlet, they but serve 
To strike the hiddeu music from its flow 
And make its sparkle visible. 

2589 Anna Katharine Green : Paul Isham, 

To fall'n humanity our Father said, 

That food and bliss should not be found unsought; 

That man should labor for his daily bread; 

But not that man should toil and sweat for nought. 

2590 Ebenezer Elliott : Corn Law Hymns. 

Labor is good for a man, bracing up his energies to con- 
quest, 

And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself use- 
less : 

For wearily the body groaneth, like a door on rusty hinges. 

2591 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Wealth. 



LADIES — LARK. 277 

LADIES — see Family. 

And, when a lady's in the case, 

You know, rill other things give place. 

2592 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 50, 
Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 

'Tis to their changes half their charms we owe. 

2593 Bope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 41. 

LANDSCAPE. 

Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, 
Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, aucl spires, 
And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all • 
The stretching landscape into smoke decays. 

2594 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1440. 
Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild 

Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, 
Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot 
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops 
The beauty and the majesty of earth, 
Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget 
The steep and toilsome way. 

2595 William Cull en Bryant : Monument Mountain. 
How often have I paused on every charm, 

The shelter'cl cot, the cultivated farm, 

The never-failing brook, the busy mill, 

The decent church that topp'd the neighboring hill ; 

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, 

For talking age and whispering lovers made. 

2596 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 9. 

LANGUAGE— see Speech. 

Others for language all their care express, 
And value books, as women men, for dress ; 
Their praise is still, " The style is excellent," 
The sense they humbly take upon content. 

2597 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 105. 
Fit language there is none 

For the heart's deepest things. 

2598 Jas. Bussell Lowell: Legend of Brittany. Pt. i. St. 28. 
Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled. 

2599 Spenser : Faerie Queene. Bk. iv. Canto ii. St. 32 

LARK. 

Now hear the lark, 
The herald of the morn ; . . . whose notes do beat 
The vaulty heavens, so high above our heads, .. . . 
Some say the lark makes sweet division. 

2600 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 5. 



278 LARK — LA WYERS. 

Lo ! here the gentle lark, weary of rest, 
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, 
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast 
The sun ariseth in his majesty. 

2601 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 853. 
To hear the lark begin his flight, 

And singing, startle the dull night, 
From his watchtower in the skies, 
Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; 
Then to come, in spite of sorrow, 
And at my window bid good morrow. 

2602 Milton : L' Allegro. Line 41. 
And now the herald lark 

Left his ground-nest, high tow'riug to descry 
The morn's approach, and greet her with his song. 

2603 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. ii. Line 279. 
The music soars within the little lark, 

And the lark soars. 

2604 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. iii. Line 155. 

Up springs the lark, 
Shrill-voic'cl, and loud, the messenger of morn; 
Ere yet the shadows fly, he mounted siugs 
Amid the dawning clouds, and from their haunts 
Calls up the tuneful nations. 

2605 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 590. 

LAUGHTER — .see Smiles. 
They laugh that win. 

2606 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Laughter, holding both his sides. 

2607 Milton : V Allegro. Line 32. 
To laugh were want of goodness and of grace ; 

And to be grave exceeds all power of face. 

2608 Pope . Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 35. 

LAW, LAWYERS —see Justice, Patriotism. 
We must not make a scare-crow of the law, 
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, 
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it 
Their perch, and not their terror. 

2609 Shaks. : M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 

But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil? 

2610 Shaks. : Mor. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. 

2611 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 2. 



LAWYERS. 279 

Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. 

2612 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

It pleases time and fortune to lie heavy 
Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood, 
Hath stept into the law, which is past depth 
To those that, without heed, do plunge into it. 

2613 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Men may construe things after their fashion, 
Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. 

2614 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i. Sc. 3. 

I'll answer him by law ; I'll not budge an inch. 

2615 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Induction. Sc. 1. 

perilous mouths, 
That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, 
Either of condemnation or approof ! 
Bidding the law make court'sy to their will, 
Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, 
To follow as it draws. 

2616 Shaks. : 31. for M. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, 
And loud withal, that would not wag, nor scarce 
Lie still without a fee. 

2617 BenJonson: Vblpone. Act i. Sc. 1. 

I oft have heard him say how he admir'd 
Men of your large profession, that could speak 
To every cause, and things mere contraries, 
Till they were hoarse again, yet all be law. 

2618 Ben Jonson : Yolpone. Act i. Sc. 1. 

While lawyers have more sober sense, 
Than t' argue at their own expense, 
But make their best advantages 
Of others' quarrels, like the Swiss, 
And out of foreign controversies, 
By aiding both sides, fill their purses: 
But have no int'rest in the cause 
For which they engage and wage the laws, 
Nor further prospect than their pay, 
Whether they lose or win the day. 

2619 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 455, 

But lawyers are too wise a nation 
T' expose their trade to disputation, 
Or make the busy rabble judges 
Of all their secret piques and grudges, 
In which, whoever wins the day, 
The whole profession's sure to paj^. 

2620 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 483 



280 LAWYERS. 

Your pettifoggers damn their souls, 
To share with knaves in cheating fools. 

2621 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 515 
Law 's the wisdom of all ages, 

And manag'd by the ablest sages, 

Who, tho' their bus'uess at the bar 

Be but a kind of civil war, 

In which th' engage with fiercer dudgeons 

Than e'er the Grecians did, and Trojans ; 

They never manage the contest 

T' impair their public interest, 

Or by their controversies lessen 

The dignity of their profession. 

2622 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 439. 
Is not the winding up witnesses, 

And nicking, more than half the bus'ness? 

Por witnesses, like watches, go 

Just as they're set, too fast, or slow ; 

And where in conscience they're straight-lac'd, 

'Tis ten to one that side is cast. 

2623 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 359. 
Sir, quoth the lawyer, not to flatter ye, 

You. have as good and fair a battery 
As heart can wish, and need not shame 
The proudest man alive to claim; 
Por if they've us'cl you as you say, 
Marry, quoth I, God give you joy; 
I would it were my case, I'd give 
More than I'll say, or 3'ou'll believe. 

2624 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 675 
I know you lawyers can, with ease, 

Twist words and meanings as you please : 
That language, by your skill made pliant, 
"Will bend to favor every client : 
That 'tis the fee directs the sense, 
To make out either side's pretence. 

2625 Gaij : Fables. Pt. ii. Pable 1. 
There take, (says Justice,) take ye each a shell, 

We thrive at Westminster on fools like yon : 
'Twas a fat oyster — live in peace — adieu. 

2626 Pope : Verbatim from Boileau. 
These 

Ensnare the wretched in the toils of law, 
Fomenting discord, and perplexing right ; 
An iron race ! 

2627 Tliomson : Seasons. Autumn. Line 1291. 
To all facts there are laws. 

2628 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto iii. St- 7. 



LA WYERS — LEARNING. 28 1 

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. 

2G29 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 386. 

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; 
Honesty shines with great advantage there. 

2630 Cowper: Hope. Line 101. 
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six. 

Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. 

2631 Lines Quoted in Latin by Sir Edward Coke- 
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, 

Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven. 

2632 Sir William Jones : Ode in Imitation of Alcwus. 
No man e'er felt the halter draw, 

With good opinion of the law. 

2633 • Trumbull : McFinc/al. Canto iii. Line 489. 
Mastering the lawless science of our law, — 

That codeless myriad of precedent, 
That wilderness of single instances, 
Through which a few, by wit or fortune led, 
May beat a pathway out to wealth and fame. 

263-1 Tennyson : Aylmefs Field. Line 439. 

"LEARNING — see Argument, Authors, Education, Knowl- 
edge. 
"The thrice three Muses mourning for the death 
Of learning, late deceas'd in beggary," — 
That is some satire, keen and critical. 

2635 Shahs. : Mid. N. Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. 
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear 

A fearful battle rendered you in music ; 
Turn him to any cause of policy, 
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, 
Familiar as his garter. 

2636 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1 
Learning, that cobweb of the brain, 

Profane, erroneous, and vain; 
A trade of knowledge, as replete 
As others are with fraud and cheat ; 
An art t' incumber gifts and wit, 
And render both for nothing fit. 

2637 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1339. 
To master John, the English maid 

A horn-book gives of gingerbread ; 
And, that the child may learn the better, 
As he can name, he eats the letter. 
Proceeding thus with vast delight, 
He spells and gnaws from left "to right. 

2638 Prior: Alma. Canto ii. Line 43& 



282 LEARNING — LENDING. 

Whence is thy learning- ? Hath thy toil 
O'er books consumed the midnight oil? 

2639 Gay: Fables. Introduction. 
Learn'd, without sense, and venerably dull. 

2640 Churchill : Bosciad. Line 592. 
Voracious learning, often over- fed, 

Digests not into sense her motley meal. 
This book-case, which dark booty almost burst, 
This forager on others' wisdom, leaves 
Her native farm, her reason, quite untill'd. 

2641 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 255. 
Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords 

Light, but not heat ; it leaves you undevout, 
Frozen at heart, while speculation shines. 

2642 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 750. 
Wits are a despicable race of men, 

If they confine their talents to the pen ; 

When the man shocks us, while the writer shines, 

Our scorn in life, our envy in his lines, 

Yet, proud of parts, with prudence some dispense, 

And play the fool because they're men of sense. 

2643 Young : Epistle to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 71. 
How empty learning, and how vain is art, 

But as it mends the life, and guides the heart) 

2644 Young : Poem on the Last Day. Bk. ii. Line 171. 
Learning itself, received into a mind 

By nature weak, or viciously inclined, 

Serves but to lead philosophers astray, 

Where children would with ease discern the way. 

2645 Coivper : Progress of Error. Line 431. 
Au reste, (as we say,) the young lad's well enough, 

Only talks much of Athens, Rome, virtue, and stuff. 

2646 Moore : Fudge Family in Paris. Letter i. 
Learning unrefin'd, 

That oft enlightens to corrupt the mind. 

2647 Falconer : Shipwreck. Canto i. Line 166. 

LENDING — see Borrowing-. 

Loan oft loses both itself and friend. 

2648 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not 

As to thy friends; (for when did friendship take 

A breed of barren metal of his friend?) 

But lend it rather to thine enemy ; 

Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face 

Exact the penalties. 

2649 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. 



LENDING — LETTERS. 283 

I hate him for he is a Christian : 

But more, for that, in low simplicity, 

He lends out money gratis, and brings down 

The rate of usance here with us in Venice. 

2650 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. 
One poor retiring minute in an age 

Would purchase thee a thousand thousand friends, 
Lending him wit that to bad debtors lends. 

2651 Shaks. : B. of Lucrece. Line 962. 
Something to love 

He lends us ; but when love is grown 
To ripeness, that on which it throve 
Falls off, and love is left alone. 

2652 Tennyson : To J. S. 
LETTERS. 

Here are a few of the unple asant'st words 
That ever blotted paper ! 

2653 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Read o'er this : 

And after, this ; and then to breakfast, with 
What appetite you have. 

2654 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Let us see : 

Leave, gentle wax; and manners, blame us not; 
To know our enemies' minds, we'd r*ip their hearts ; 
Their papers, is more lawful. 

2655 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6. 
My letters ! all dead paper, mute and white ! 

And yet they seem alive, and quivering 

Against my tremulous hands which loose the string 

And let them drop down on my knee to-night. 

2656 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets fr. Portuguese. Sonnet xxviii. 
Kind messages, that pass from laud to land ; 

Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, 
In which we feel the pressure of a hand, — 
One touch of fire, — and all the rest is mystery ! 

2657 Longfellow : Dedication to Seaside and Fireside. St. 5. 
Every day brings a ship, 

Every ship brings a word ; 
Well for those who have no fear, 
Looking seaward well assured 
That the word the vessel brings 
Is the word they wish to hear. 

2658 Emerson : Letters. 
Their preciousness in absence is proved by the desire of 

their presence. 

2659 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Writing 



284 LETTERS — LIBERTY. 

The pen flowing in love, or dipped black in hate, 

Or tipped with delicate courtesies, or harshly edged with 

censure, 
Hath quickened more good than the sun, more evil thau 

the sword, 
More joy thau woman's smile, more woe than frowning 

fortune ; 
And shouldst thou ask my judgment of that which hath 

most profit in the world, 
For answer take thou this, The prudent penning of a letter. 

2660 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Writing. 
A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection ; 
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder. 

2661 Tupper :. Proverbial Phil. Of Writing. 
Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid. 

Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid ; 

They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, 

Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires ; 

The virgin's wish without her fears impart, 

Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart — 

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, 

And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole. 

2662 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 51 
Letters admit not of a half -renown ; 

They give you nothiug, or they give a crown. 
No work e'er gained true fame, or ever can, 
But what did honor to the name of man. 

2663 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 197. 
Good by — my paper's out so nearly, 

I've only room for Yours sincerely. 

2664 Moore : Fudge Family in Paris. Letter vi. 

LIBERTY — see Freedom, Slavery. 
I must have liberty 
"Withal, as large a charter as the wind, 
To blow on whom I please. 

2665 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
In liberty's defence, my noble task, 

Of which all Europe rings from side to side ; 

This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask, 

Content, though blind — had I no "better guide. 

2666 Milton: Sonnet xxii. To Cyriack Skinner. 
License they mean when they cry Liberty. 

2667 Milton : Sonnet xii 
The love of liberty with life is given. 

And life itself th' inferior gift of heaven. 

2668 Dryden : Palamon and Arctic. Pt. ii. Line 901 



LIBERTY. 285 

When liberty is gone, 
Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. 

2669 Addison : Cato. Act ii, Sc. 3. 
A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty 

Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 

2670 Addison : Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Converse familiar with th' illustrious dead ! 

With great examples of old Greece or Rome 
Enlarge thy free-born heart, and bless kind heaven 
That Britain yet enjoys dear Liberty, 
That balm of life, that sweetest blessing, cheap 
Tho' purchas'd with our blood. 

2671 Somerville : Chase. Bk. i. Line 388. 
Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 
Receive our air, that moment they are free, 

They touch our country and their shackles fall. 
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud 
And jealous of their blessing. 

2672 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 40. 
Libert3 r , like day, 

Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven 
Eires all the faculties with glorious joy. 

2673 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 882. 
But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought 

Of freedom, in that hope itself possess 
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, 
The scorn of danger, and united hearts, 
The surest presage of the good they seek. 

2674 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 373. 
'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r 

Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, 
And we are weeds without it. 

2675 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 445. 
Oh, could I worship aught beneath the skies, 

That earth has seen or fancy can devise, 
Thine altar, sacred Liberty, should stand, 
Built by no mercenary vulgar hand, 
With fragrant turf and flow'rs as wild and fair 
As ever dress'd a bank or scented summer air. 

2676 Cowper : Charity. Line 254. 
The wish, which ages have not yet subdued 

In man, to have no master save his mood. 

2677 Byron : Island. Canto i. St. 2. 
Oh ! if there be, on this earthly sphere, 

A boon, an offering heaven holds dear, 

'Tis the last libation Liberty draws 

Erom the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. 

2678 Moore : Lal.la Bookh. Paradise and the Peri 



286 LIBRARIES — LIFE. 

LIBRARIES — see Books. 
Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed 
In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie 
The mummied authors. 

2679 Bayard Taylor : PoeVs Journal. Third Evening 
I love vast libraries ; yet there is a doubt 

If one be better with them or without, — 
Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, 
Knows the high art of what and how to read. 

2680 J.G.Saxe: The Library. 
As great a store 

Have we of books as bees of herbs or more. 

2G81 Henry Vaughan : To His Books. 

LIES— see Defiance, Fiction. 

The "Lie circumstantial," and the "Lie direct." 

2G82 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act v. So. 4. 

These lies are like the father that begets them, gross as a 
mountain, open, palpable. 
2G83 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, 
Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest ! 

2684 Shaks. : Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. 
You told a lie ; an odious, damned lie : 

Upon my soul, a lie ; a wicked lie. 

2685 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, 

To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. 

2686 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 114. 
The man of pure and simple heart 

Through life disdains a double part ; 
He never needs the screen of lies 
His inward bosom to disguise. 

2687 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 6. 
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie ; 

A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. 

2688 Herbert : Temple. Church Porch. St. 13. 
And he that does one fault at first, 

And lies to hide it, makes it two. 

2689 Watts: Divine Songs. No. xv 

LIFE — see Adversity, Child, Death, Despair, Dissolution, 
Providence, Retirement. 

We are such stuff 
y As dreams are made on, and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. 

2690 Shaks. : Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1 



LIFE. 287 

Reason thus with life ; 
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing 
That none but fools would keep : a breath thou art, 
(Servile to all the skiey influences,) 
That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, 
Hourly afflict. 

2691 Shales.: 31. for M. Act iii. Sc. L 
'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine ; 

And after one hour more, 'twill be eleven : 
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe ; 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot aud rot; 
And thereby hangs a tale. 

2692 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 

Is left this vault to brag of. 

2693 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Life's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 
And then is heard no more : it is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifyiug nothing. 

2694 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5. 
The time of life is short ! 

To spend that shortness basely were too long 
If life did ricle upon a dial's point 
Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 

2695 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2. 
I have set my life upon a cast, 

And I will stand the hazard of the die. 

2696 Shaks. : Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4. 
Nor love thy life, nor hate ; but what thou livest, 

Live well ; how long or short, permit to Heav'n. 

2697 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. xi. Line 553. 
Circles are prais'd, not that abound 

In largeness, but th' exactly round: 
So life we praise, that does excel 
Not in much time, but acting well. 

2698 " Waller : Long and Short Life. 
Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend ; 

The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. 

2699 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2163. 
Take not away the life you cannot give, 

For all things have an equal right to live. 

2700 Dryden : Of the Tyth. Philosophy. Line 705. 
"Vain hopes and empty joys of human kind ; 

Proud of the present, to the future blind ! 

2701 Dryden : Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 323 



88 LIFE. 

Must we count 
Life a curse and not a blessing, summed-up in its whole 

amount, 
Help and hindrance, joy and sorrow? 

2702 Robert Browning: La Saisiaz. Line 206 
Life's a jest, and all things show it; 

I thought so once, but now I know it. 

2703 Gay : My Own Epitaph. 
Live while you live, the epicure would say, 

And seize the pleasures of the present day ; 
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, 
And give to God each moment as it flies : 
Lord, in my views let both united be ; 
I live in pleasure, when I live to thee. 

2704 Doddridge: Epigram on his Family Arms. 
Life can little more supply, 

Than just to look about us and to die. 

2705 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 3. 

thoughtless mortals ! ever blind to fate, 
Too soon dejected, and too soon elate ! 

2706 Pope: E. of the Lock. Canto iii. Line 101. 
Even so luxurious men unheeding pass 

An idle summer-life iu fortune's shine ; 
A season's glitter ! Thus they flutter on 
From toy to toy, from vanity to vice ; 
Till blown away by death, oblivion comes 
Behind, and strikes them from the book of life. 

2707 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 346. 

1 hear a sound of life — of life like ours — 
Of laughter and of wailing, of grave speech, 
Of little plaintive voices innocent. 

Of life in separate courses flowing out 
Like our four rivers to some outward main. 
I hear life — life! 

2708 Mrs. Browning : Drama of Exile. Sc. Farther On. 
Life's little stage is a small eminence, 

Inch-high the grave above ; that home of man, 
Where dwells the multitude : we gaze around ; 
We read their monuments ; we sigh ; and while 
We sigh, we sink: and are what Ave deplor'd; 
Lamenting, or lamented, all our lot ! 

2709 Young : Night Thoughts. Xight ii. Line 362. 
Why all this toil for triumphs of au hour? 

What tho' we wade in wealth, or soar in fame? 
Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies : " 
And " dust to dust " concludes her noblest song. 

2710 Young : Xight Thoughts. Xight iv. Line 97. 



LIFE. 289 

While man is growing, life is in decrease; 
And cradles rock ns nearer to the tomb. 
Our birth is nothing but our death begun; 
As tapers waste that instant they take fire. 

2711 Young: Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 717. 
That life is long which answers life's great end. 

2712 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 773. 

Along the cool sequester'd vale of life, 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 

2713 Gray: Elegy. St. 21. 
So live that when thy summons comes to join 

The innumerable caravan which moves 
To that mysterious realm where each shall take 
His chamber in the silent halls of death, 
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, 
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 

2714 William Cullen Bryant : Thanatopsis. 
Catch then, catch the transient hour, 

Improve each moment as it flies ; 
Life's a short summer —man a flower; 
He dies — alas ! how soon he dies ! 

2715 Dr. Johnson : Winter. 
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, 

Derives its value from its use alone ; 
Not for itself, but for a nobler end, 
Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue. 

2716 Dr. Johnson : Irene. Act iii. Sc. 8. 
Year chases j T ear, decay pursues decay, 

Still drops some joy from withering life away; 
New forms arise, and different views engage, 
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, 
Till pitying Nature signs the last release, 
And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. 

2717 Dr. Johnson : Van. of Human Wishes. Line 305. 
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, 

Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise ! 

From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, 

And Swift expires a driveller and a show. 

2718 Dr. Johnson : Van. of Human Wishes. Line 315. 
" Enlarge my life with multitude of days," 

In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays : 
Hides from himself his state, aud shuns to know 
That life protracted is protracted woe. 

2719 Dr. Johnson : Van. of Human Wishes. Line 255. 



290 LIFE. 



C 



It matters not how long we live, but how. 

2720 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Wood and Water. 
Oppress'd with grief , oppress'd with care, 

A burden more than I can bear, 
I set me down aud sigh : 
O life ! thou art a galling load, 
Along a rough, a weary road, 
To wretches such as I ! 

2721 Burns : Despondency. 
"Well, well — the world must turn upon its axis, 

And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, 
And live and die. make love, and pay our taxes, 
And, as the veering wind shifts, shift our sails ; 
The king commands us, and the doctor quacks us, 
The priest instructs us, and so Our life exhales, — 
A little breath, love, wine, ambition, fame, 
Fighting, devotion, dust — perhaps a name. 

2722 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 4. 

'Tis very certain the desire of life * 

Prolongs it ; this is obvious to physicians, 

When patients, neither plagued with friends nor wife, 

Survive through very desperate conditions, 

Because they still can hope, nor shines the knife 

Nor shears of Atropos before their visions : 

Despair of all recovery spoils longevity, 

And makes men's miseries of alarming brevity. 

2723 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 64. 

There still are many rainbows in your sky, 
But mine have vanish'd. All, when life is new, 
Commence with feelings warm, and prospects high; 
But time strips our illusions of their hue, 
And one by one, in turn, some grand mistake 
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. 

2724 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 21. 

Between two worlds, life hovers like a star 
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. 
How little do we know that which we are ! 
How less what we may be ! The eternal surge 
Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar 
Our bubbles : as the old burst, new emerge, 
Lash'd from the foam of ages. 

2725 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xv. St. 99. 

How readily we wish time spent revoked, 
That we might try the ground again, where once 
(Through inexperience, as we now perceive) 
AYe miss'd that happiness we might have found. 

2726 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 25. 



LIFE. 291 

Ask what is human life — the sage replies, 
With disappointment low'ring in his eyes, 
" A painful passage o'er a restless flood, 
A vain pursuit of fugitive false good, 
A sense of fancied bliss and heartfelt care, 
Closing at last in darkness and despair." 

2727 Cowper: Hope. Line 1. 

Men deal with life as children with their play, 
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. 

2728 Cowper: Hope. Line 127. 
In such a world, so thorny, and where none 

Finds happiness unblighted, or if found, 
Without some thistly sorrow at its side, 
It seems the part of wisdom, and no sin 
Against the law of love, to measure lots 
With less distinguish'd than ourselves, that thus 
We may with patience bear our mod'rate ills, 
And sympathize with others suffering more. 

2729 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 333. 
As the bird trims her to the gale, 

I trim myself to the storm of time, 

I man the rudder, reef the sail, 

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime ; 

" Lowly faithful, banish fear, 

Right onward drive unharmed ; 

The port, well worth the cruise, is near, 

And every wave is charmed." 

2730 Emerson: Terminus. 
Life is a strange avenue of various trees and flowers ; 
Lightsome at commencement, but darkening to its end in 

a distant massy portal. 

2731 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Life. 
Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star 

In God's eternal day. 

2732 Bayard Taylor: Autumnal Vespers. 
All that's bright must fade, — 

The brightest still the fleetest ; 
All that's sweet was made 
But to be lost when sweetest. 

2733 Moore : National Airs. All TliaVs Bright. 
No ! life is a waste of wearisome hours, 

Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; 
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers 
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. 

2734 Moore : Irish Melodies. Think Not My Spirit 
Life is the gift of God. aud is divine. 

2735 Longfellow : T of a Wayside Inn. Emma and Eginhard. 



292 LIFE. 

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, 
Life is but an empty dream ! 
For the soul is dead that slumbers, 
And things are not what they seem. 

2736 Longfellow: Psalm of Life 
Life is real ! life is earnest ! 

And the grave is not its goal ; 
Dust thou art, to clust returnest, 
Was not spoken of the soul. 

2737 Longfellow : Psalm of Life. 
This life of ours is a wild JEolian harp of mam' a joyous 

strain, 
But under them all there runs a loud perpetual wail, as of 
souls in pain. 

2738 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv. 
Be still, sad heart ! and cease repining ; 

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining ; 
Thy fate is the common fate of all ; 
Into each life some rain must fall, 
Some days must be dark and dreary. 

2739 Longfellow : The Rainy Day. 
What is life? A thawing iceboard 

On a sea with sunny shore : 
Gay we sail ; it melts beneath us ; 
We are sunk and seen no more. 

2740 Carlyle : Cui Bono. 
Life? 'Tis the story of love and of troubles, 

Of troubles and love, that travel together 
The round world through. 

2741 Joaquin Miller : Life. 
Life is too short for logic ; what I do 

I must do simply ; God alone must judge — 
For God alone shall guide, and God's elect. 

2742 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
A sacred burden is this life ye bear, 

Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly. 
Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly. 
Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, 
But onward, upward, till the goal ye win. 

2743 Frances Anne Kemble : Lines Addressed to the Young 

[Gentlemen leaving the Lenox Academy, 3Iass. 
What different lots our stars accord ! 
This babe to be hail'd and woo'd as a Lord ! 
And that to be shunn'd like a leper ! 
One, to the world's wine, honey, and corn; 
Another, like Colchester native, born 
To its vinegar only and pepper. 

2744 Hood: 3Iiss Kilmansegg. Her Birth, 



LIFE. 293 

Life is arched with changing skies : 
Rarely are they what they seem : 
Children we of smiles and sighs — 
Much we know, but more we dream. 

2745 William Winter: Light and Shadow. 
Life, unexplored, is hope's perpetual blaze — 

When past, one long, involved, and darksome maze : 
But, that some mighty power controls the whole, 
A secret intuition tells the soul. 

2746 William Winter : Emotion of Sympathy. Pt. iii. 
Making their lives a prayer. 

2747 Whittier : On receiving a Basket of Sea Mosses. 
I am : how little more I know ! 

Whence came I? Whither do I go? 
A centred self, which feels and is; 
A cry between the silences ; 
A shadow-birth of clouds at strife 
With sunshine on the hills of life ; 
A shaft from Nature's quiver cast 
Into the Future, from the Past; 
Between the cradle and the shroud, 
A meteor's flight from cloud to cloud. 

2748 Whittier: Questions of Life. 
Life's a vast sea 

That does its mighty errand without fail, 

Panting in unchanged strength though waves are changing. 

2749 George Eliot : Spanish Gijpsy. Bk. iii. 
Sweet lips whereon perpetually did reign 

The summer calm of golden charity. 

2750 Tennyson : Isabel. 
A life that leads melodious days. 

2751 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xxxiii. St. 2. 
Men's lives like oceans change 

In shifting tides, and ebb from either shore 
Till the strong planet draws them on once more. 

2752 E. C. Stedman : The Blameless Prince. St. 59. 

We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths ; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives 
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 

2753 Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Country Town. 

Life — what is life? but the immediate breath we draw: 

Nor have we surety for a second gale. 

A frail and fickle tenement it is ; 

Which, like the brittle glass which measures time, 

Is broke ere half its sands are run. 

2754 Notes and Queries, Dec. 19, 1863. 



294 LIGHT — LILIES. 

LIGHT. 

Hail, holy Light ! offspring of Heaven first-born ! 

Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. 

May I express thee imblam'd? since God is light, 

And never but in uuapproached light 

Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, 

Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! 

2755 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iii. Line 1 

'• Let there be Light ! " said God ; and forthwith Light 
Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, 
Sprung from the deep; and, from her native east, 
To journey through the aery gloom began, 
Spher'd in a radiant cloud. 

2756 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vii. Line 243, 

Before the sun, 
Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice 
Of God as with a mantle didst invest 
The rising world of waters dark and deep, 
Won from the void and formless infinite. 

2757 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iii. Line 8. 



LIGHTNESS. 

Pray, what is lighter than a feather? 
Dust, rny friend, in summer weather. 
What's lighter than the dust, I pray? 
The wind that blows them both away. 
What is lighter than the wind? 
The lightness of a woman's mind. 
And what is lighter than the last? 
Ah, now, my friend, you have me fast ! 

2758 Notes and Queries, Aug. 11, 186G 



LILIES. 

Like the lily, 
That once w~as mistress of the field and flourish'd, 
I'll hang my head and perish. 

2759 Shaks. : Henry VTII. Act iii. Sc. 1 

Observe the rising lily's snowy grace, 

Observe the various vegetable race ; 

They neither toil nor spin, but careless grow, 

Yet see how warm they blush ! how bright they glow ! 

What regal vestments can with them compare! 

What king so shining ! or what queen so fair ! 

2760 Thomson: Paraphrase on St. Matthew. 



LINCOLN —LO GIC. 295 

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. 
This man, whose homely face you look upon, 
Was one of Nature's masterful, great men ; 
Born with strong- arms, that unfought battles won; 
Direct of speech, and cunning with the pen. 
Chosen for large designs, he had the art 
Of winning with his humor, and he went 
Straight to his mark, which was the human heart : 
Wise, too, for what he could not break he bent. 
Upon his back a more than Atlas-load. — 
The burden of the Commonwealth, — vras laid; 
He stooped, and rose up to it, though the road 
Shot suddenly downwards, not a whit dismayed. 
Hold, warriors, councillors, kings ! All now give place 
To this dear benefactor of the Race. 

2761 B. H. Stoddard: Abraham Lincoln, 

LION. 

The lion, dying, thrusteth forth his paw, 

And wounds the earth, if nothing else, with rage 

To be o'erpowered. 

2762 Shaks. : Packard II. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The lion is, beyond dispute. 

Allowed the most majestic brute ; 
His valor and his generous mind 
Prove him superior of his kind. 

2763 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 9. 

LIPS — see Kissing-. 

O. how ripe in show 
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting srrow! 

2764 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Her lips are roses over-wash'd with dew. 

Or like the purple of Xarcissus' flower; 

Xo frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, 

But by her breath her beauties do renew. 

2765 Robert G-reene : From Jlenaphon. 3Ienaphon , s Eel 

LOGIC. 
He was in logic a great critic, 
Profoundly skill'd in analytic; 
He could distinguish and divide 
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. 

2766 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 65. 
If a man who turnips cries, 

Cries not when his father dies, 
'Tis a proof that he had rather 
Have a turnip than his father. 

2767 Dr. Johnson: Johnsoniana. Piozzi. Line 30- 



296 LONDON— 1 0QUAC1TY. 

LONDON. 
Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, 
And now a rabble rages, now a fire ; 
Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, 
And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; 
Here falling houses thunder on your head, 
And here a female atheist talks you dead. 

2768 Br. Johnson : London. Line 13 
London! the needy villain's general home, 

The common-sewer of Paris and of Rome ! 
With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, 
Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state. 

2769 Dr. Johnson : London. Line 83. 
A mighty mass of brick, and smoke, and shipping, 

Dirty and dusky, but as wide as eye 

Could reach, with here and there a sail just skipping 

In sight, then lost amidst the forestry 

Of masts ; a wilderness of steeples peeping 

On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy ; 

A huge, dun cupola, like a foolscap crown 

On a fool's head — and there is London Town. 

2770 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto x. St. 82. 
The sev'nth day this ; the jubilee of man. 

London ! right well thou know'st the day of prayer ; 
Then thy spruce citizen, wash'd artizan, 
And smug apprentice gulp their weekly air : 
The coach of hackney, whisky, one-horse chair, 
And humblest gig, through sundry suburbs whirl, 
To Hampstead, Brentford, Harrow, make repair; 
Till the tir'cl jade the wheel forgets to hurl, 
Provoking envious gibe from each pedestrian churl. 

2771 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 69. 

LONGING. 

A yearning like the yearning of a wave 

That sees "the shore stretch beautiful before it. 

2772 Anna Katharine Green : Paul Isham. 
Alas ! to-day I would give everything 

To see a friend's face, or to hear a voice 
That had the slightest tone of comfort in it. 

2773 Longfellow : Judas Maccabmis. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

JjOQUACITY — see Boasting, Bores. 
Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice; 
Parts that become thee happily enough, 
And in such eyes as ours appear not faults ; 
But where they are not known, why, there they show 
Something too liberal. 

2774 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



LOQUACITY— LOVE. 29? 

Their copious stories, oftentimes begun, 
End without audience, and are never done. 

2775 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 845 

LOSS. 

Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, 
That have of late so huddled on his back, 
Enough to press a royal merchant down. 

2776 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
That loss is common would not make 

My own less bitter — rather more ; 
Too common! Never morning wore 
To evening, but some heart did break. 

2777 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. vi. St. 2. 

LOVE, LOVERS —see Beauty, Cupid, Friendship, Imagina- 
tion, Jealousy. 
Come live with me, and be my love ; 
And we will all the pleasures prove 
That hills and valleys, dales and fields, 
Woods, or steepy mountains, yields. 

2778 Marlowe: Passionate Shepherd, 
When I approach 

Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, 
And in herself complete; so well to know 
Her own, that what she wills to do or say, 
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. 

2779 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. viii. Line 546. 
Such is the power of that sweet passion, 

That it all sordid baseness doth expel. 
And the refined mind cloth newly fashion 
Unto a fairer form, which now doth dwell 
In his high thought, that would itself excel; 
Which he, beholding still with constant sight, 
Admires the mirror of so heavenly light. 

2780 Spenser : Hymn in Honor of Love. 
For several virtues 

Have I lik'd several women : never any 
With so full soul, but some defect in her 
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, 
And put it to the foil : But you, you, 
So perfect and so peerless, are created 
Of every creature's best. 

2781 * Shaks. : Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 1, 
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me ; 

Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, 
War with good counsel, set the world at nought ; 
Made wit, with musing weak, heartsick with thought. 

2782 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V Act i. Sc. 1 



298 LOVE. 

As the most forward bud 
Is eaten by the cauker ere it blow, 
Even so hy love the young and tender wit 
Is turned to folly; blasting- in the bud, 
Losing his verdure even in the prime, 
And all the fair effects of future hopes. 

2783 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud 

The eating canker dwells, so eating love 
Inhabits in the finest wits of all. 

2784 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Fie, fie ! how wayward is this foolish love, 

That like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, 
And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod ! 

2785 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 2. 
O, how this spring of love resembleth 

The uncertain glory of an April clay; 
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 
And bv and by a cloud takes all away. 

2786 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 3. 
In revenge of m}>- contempt of love, 

Love hath chas'cl sleep from my enthralled eyes, 
And made them watchers of my own heart's sorrow. 

2787 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
For now my love is thaw'd ; 

Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, 
Bears no impression of the thing it was. 

2788 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
O, gentle Proteus, Love's a mighty lord; 

And hath so humbled me, as, I confess, 
There is no woe to his correction, 
Nor to his service, no such joy on earth ! 
Now, no discourse, except it be of love ; 
Now, can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep, 
Upon the very naked name of love. 

2789 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Didst thou but know the inly touch of love, 

Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with snow, 
As seek to quench the fire of love with words. 

2790 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
The more thou damm'st it up, the more it burns ; 

The current that with gentle murmur glides, 

Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently cloth rage. 

2791 Shaks. : Two Gent." of V. Act ii. Sc. 7 
This weak impress of love is as a figure 

Trenched in ice ; which, with an hour's heat, 
Dissolves to water, and cloth lose his form. 

2792 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



LOVE. 299 

You know that love 
Will creep in service where it cannot go. 

2793 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Lovers break not hours, 
Unless it be to come before their time ; 
So much they spur their expedition. 

2794 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 1. 

O, 'tis the curse in love, and still approv'd, 
When women cannot love where they're belov'd. 

2795 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 

Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pursues ; 
Pursuing that that flies, and flving what pursues. 

2796 " Shaks.": Mer. W. of W. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

If music be the food of love, play on ; 
Give me excess of it. 

2797 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 1. 
I cannot love him : 

Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, 
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth; 
In voices well divulg'd, free, learn'd, and valiant, 
And, in dimension, and the shape of nature, 
A gracious person : but yet I cannot love him. 

2798 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections, 

With au invisible and subtle stealth, 
To creep in at mine eyes. 

2799 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 5. 
She never told her love, 

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Teed on her damask cheek ; she pined in thought, 
And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 
She sat, like patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? 

2800 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
If ever thou shalt love, 

In the sweet pangs of it remember me : 
For, such as I am, all true lovers are ; 
Unstaid and skittish in all motiocs else, 
Save, in the constant image of the creature 
That is beloved. 

2801 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act ii. Sc. 4, 
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 

2802 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
A murd'rous guilt shows not itself more soon 

Than love that would seem hid : love's night is noon. 

Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act iii Sc. L 



300 LOVE. 

Ah me ! for aught that ever I could read, 
Could ever hear by tale or history, 
The course of true love never did run smooth: 
But, either it was different in blood ; 

Or else, misgraffed in respect of years ; 

Or else it stood upon the choice of friends ; 

Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, 
War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it; 
Making it momentary as a sound, 
Swift as a shadow, short as any dream. 

2804 Shahs. : Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Helen, I love thee ; by my life I do : 

I swear by that which I will lose for thee, 
To prove him false, that sa}"s I love thee not. 

2805 Shahs. : Mid. Ni Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow ; 

By his best arrow with the golden head ; 

By the simplicity of Venus' doves ; 

By that which kuitteth souls, and prospers loves. 

2806 Shahs.: Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc 1. 
Things base and vile, holding no quality, 

Love cau transpose to form and dignity. 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; 
And therefore is wing'cl Cupicl painted blind. 
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste ; 
Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste: 
And therefore is love said to be a child, 
Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd. 

2807 Shahs.: Mid. A 7 ". Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Leave you your power to draw, 
And I shall have no power to follow you. 

2808 Shahs. : Mid. N. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
All fancy-sick she is, and pale of cheer 

With sighs of love. 

2809 Shahs. : Mid. JST. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
O, why rebuke you him, that loves j r ou so? 

Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. 

2810 Shahs. : Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, 
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than cool reason eA^er comprehends. 
The lunat'c, the lover, and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact. 

2811 Shahs. : Mid. X. Dream. Act v. Sc. 1 



LOVE. 301 

Never durst poet touch a peu to write, 

Until his ink were tempered with Love's sighs. 

2812 Shahs. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc, & 
Love is full of unbefitting strains; 

All wanton as a child, skippiug, and vain; 
Form'd by the eye, and, therefore, like the eye, 
Full of stray shapes, of habits, and of forms, 
Varying in subjects as the eye doth roll 
To every varied object in his glance. 

2813 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act v. Sc. % 
Love is blind, and lovers cannot see 

The pretty follies that themselves commit. 

2814 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. 
Be shrew your eyes, 

They have o'erlooked me, and divided me : 
One half of me is yours, the other half yours, — 

And so all yours. 

2815 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2 
Madam, you have bereft me of all words, 

Only my blood speaks to you in my veins. 

2816 • Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

And then the lover, 
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. 

2817 Shaks. : As You Like Lt. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
Sa3 r that you love me not, but say not so 

In bitterness : the common executioner, 

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard, 

Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck, 

But first begs pardon. 

2818 Shaks. : As You Like Lt. Act iii. Sc, 5. 
I pray you do not fall in love with me, 

For I am falser than vows made in wine : 
Besides, I like you not. 

2819 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. 

It is to be all made of sighs and tears, 



It is to be all made of faith and service, 

It is to be all made of fantasy, 

All adoration, duty, and observance, 
All humbleness, all patience, aucl impatience, 
All purity, all trial, all observance. 
2820 ' Shaks. : As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2. 



302 LOVE. 

If it prove so, then loving goes by haps ; 
Some Cupids kill with arrows, some with traps. 

2821 Shales. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 1 
Fair soul, 

In your fine frame hath love no quality? 

If the quick fire of youth light not your mind, 

You are no maiden, but a monument. 

2822 Sliaks. : ATI's Well. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
He says, he loves my daughter: 

I think so too; for never gaz'd the moon 
Upon the water, as he'll stand and read, 
As 't were, my daughter's eyes; and, to be plain, 
I think there is not half a kiss to choose, 
Who loves another best. 

2823 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Prosperity 's the very bond of love : 

Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together 
Affliction alters. 

2824 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Sweet love, I see, changing his property, 

Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. 

2825 Shaks. : Richard II Act iii Sc. 2. 
Let me but bear your love, I'll bear your cares. 

2826 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2. 
I never su'cl to friend nor enemy ; 

My tongue could never learn sweet smoothing word : 

But now thy beauty is propos'd my fee, 

My proud heart sues, and prompts my tonarue to speak. 

2827 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 
To be wise, and love, 

Exceeds man's might ; that dwells with gods above. 

2828 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
When love begins to sicken and decay, 

It useth an enforced ceremony. 

2829 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. 

2830 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act i. Sc. 1. 
I know not why 

I love this youth; and I have heard you say, 
Love's reason 's without reason. 

2831 Shaks. : Cyrnbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Men's vows are women's traitors. 

2832 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Love's not love, 

When it is mingled with regards that stand 
Aloof from the entire point. 

2833 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 1. 



LOVE, 303 

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; 
Being purg'cl, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes ; 
Being vex'd, a sea nourished with loving tears ; 
What is it else? A madness most discreet, 
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. 

2834: Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Alas ! that love, whose view is muffled still, 
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will. 

2835 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Stony limits cannot hold love out : 

And what love can do, that dares love attempt. 

2836 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night. 

Like softest music to attending ears ! 

2837 Shaks.: Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say — Ay : 
And I will take thy word ; yet, if thou swear'st, 
Thou may'st prove false; at lovers' perjuries, 
They say Jove laughs. 

2838 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
When he shall die, 

Take him and cut him out in little stars, 
And he will make the face of heaven so fine, 
That all the world will be in love with night 
And pay no worship to the garish sun. 

2839 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
0, gentle Borneo, 

If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully ; 
Or, if thou think'st I am too quickly won, 
I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, 
So thou wilt woo ; but, else, not for the world. 

2840 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Sweet, good night ! 

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, 
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. 

2841 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Come what sorrow can, 

It cannot countervail th' exchange of joy 
That one short minute gives me in her sight. 

2842 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 6. 

Love moderately; long love doth so, 
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 

2843 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 6. 
'Tis a question left us yet to prove, 

Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love. 

2844 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



304 LOVE. 

When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul 
Gives the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter, 
Giving more light than heat, — extinct in both, 
Ev'n in their promise as it is a making, 
You must not take for fire. . . . 
Be somewhat scanter of your maiden presence, 
Set your entreatments at a higher rate, 
Than a command to parley. 

2845 Shales. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3 
Doubt thou the stars are fire ; 

Doubt that the sun doth move : 
Doubt truth to be a liar ; 
But never doubt, I love. 

2846 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; 

Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. 

2847 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Nature is fine in love : and, where 'tis fine, 

It sends some precious instance of itself 
After the thing it loves. 

2848 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc, 5. 
There lives within the very flame of love 

A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it ; 
And nothing is at a like goodness still ; 
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, 
Dies in his own too-much. 

2849 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7 
She's so conjunctive to my life and soul, 

That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, 
I could not but by her. 

2850 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
I will a round unvarnished tale deliver 

Of my whole course of love. 

2851 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Excellent wretch; Perdition catch my soul 

But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not 
Chaos is come again. 

2852 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 8. 
I had rather be a toad, 

And live upon the vapor of a dungeon, 
Than keep a corner in the thing I love, 
For others' uses. 

2853 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
If he be not one that truly loves you, 

That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning, 
I have no judgment in an honest face. 

2854 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



LOVE. 305 

Unkinclness may do much, 
And his unkindness may defeat my life, 
But never taint my love. 

2855 Shahs. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2 

My love doth so approve him, 
That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns, 
. . . have grace and favor in them. 

2856 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, 

Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak 

Of one that loved not wisely, but too well. 

2857 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Love comforteth, like sunshine after rain, 
Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain, 



Love surfeits not — ... 
Love is all truth — . . . 

2858 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 799. 

Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle ; 
Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty ; 
Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is, brittle ; 
Softer than wax, and yet, as iron, rusty : 
A lily pale, with damask dye to grace her : 
None fairer, nor none falser to deface her. 

2859 Shaks. : Pas. Pilgrim. St. 7, 

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, 
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force; 
Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill ; 
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse; 
And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure, 
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest; 
But these particulars are not my measure ; 
All these I better in one general best. 
Thy love is better than high birth to me, 
Richer than wealth, prouder than garments' cost. 
Of more delight than hawks and horses be ; 
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast : 
Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take 
All this away, and me most wretched make. 

2860 Shaks. : Sonnet xci. 

My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming ; 
I love not less, though less the show appear; 
That love is merchandized, whose rich esteeming 
The owner's tongue doth publish everywhere. 

2861 Shaks. : Sonnet cii. 



306 LOVE. 

Love is a spirit all compact of fire ; 

Not gross to sink, but light, and will aspire. 

2862 Shahs. : Venus and A. Line 149. 

. . , Z^ove is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds, 
Or bends with the remover to remove : 

no ! it is an ever-fixed mark, 

That looks on tempests and is never shaken ; 

It is the star to every wandering bark, 

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. 

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks 

Within his bending sickle's compass come ; 

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, 

But bears it out even to the edge of doom. 

If this be error, and upon me proved ; — 

1 never writ, nor no man ever loved. 

2863 Shaks. : Sonnet cxvi. 
In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes, 

For they in thee a thousand errors note; 

But 'tis my heart that loves what they despise, 

Who in despite of view, is pleased to dote. 

2864 Shaks. : Sonnet cxli. 

How could I tell I should love thee to-day, 
Whom that day I held not dear? 
How could I know I should love thee away 
When I did not love thee anear? 

2865 Jean Ingelow : Supper at the Mill. Song. 

Learn that to love is the one way to know, 
Or God or man : it is not love received 
That maketh man to know the inner life 
Of them that love him; his own love bestowed 
Shall do it. 

2866 Jean Ingelow : A Story of Doom. Bk. vii. Line 278. 

Equality is no rule in love's grammar : 
That sole unhappiness is left to princes 
To marry blood. 

2867 Beaumont and Fletcher: Maid in the Mill. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

A mighty pain to love it is, 
And 'tis a pain that pain to miss ; 
But of all pains, the greatest pain 
It is to love, but love in vain. 

2868 Cowley: Gold. 

Love is maintain'd by wealth ; when all is spent, 
Adversity then breeds the discontent. 

2869 Herrick : Aph. Adversity 



LOVE. 307 

Love's of itself too sweet ; the best of all 
Is, when love's honey has a clash of gall. 

2870 Herrick : Aph. Another on Love. 

When words we want, love teacheth to indite ; 
ADd what we blush to speak, she bids us write. 

2871 Herrick: Aph. Writing, 

Let moderation on thy passions wait ; 

Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate. 

2872 Herrick : Aph. Moderation. 

Instruct me now what love will do ; 
'Twill make a tongueless man to woo. 
Inform me next what love will do ; 
'Twill strangely make a one of two. 
Teach me besides what love will do ; 
'Twill quickly mar and make ye too. 
Tell me, now last, what love will do ; 
'Twill hurt and heal a heart pierc'd through. 

2873 Sir John Suckling: Aph. Of Love. 

Why so pale and wan, fond lover? 

Prithee, why so pale? 

Will, when looking well can't move her, 

Looking ill prevail? 

Prithee, why so pale? 

2874 Sir John Suckling : On a Wedding. Song. 

If all the world and love were young, 
And truth in every shepherd's tongue, 
These pretty pleasures might me move 
To live with thee, and be thy love. 

2875 Sir W. Baleigh : Nymph's Reply to Pass. Shepherd. 

Yet Love has found the way. 

2876 Schiller: Hero and Leander. 

No bridge can love to love convey. 

2877 Schiller : Hero and Leander. 

Love can sun the Realms of Night. 

2878 Schiller : Hie Triumph of Love. 

Love is the only good in the world. 
Henceforth be loved as heart can love, 
Or braiu devise, or hand approve. 

2879 Robert Browning : Flight of the Duchess. Pt. xv. 

In all amours a lover burns, 
With frowns, as well as smiles, by turns; 
And hearts have been as oft with sullen, 
As charming looks, surpris'd and stolen. 

2880 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 913 



308 LOVE. 

A lover is, the more he's brave 
T' his mistress, but the more a slave ; 
And whatsoever she commands, 
Becomes a favor from her hands, 
Which he's oblig'd t' obey, and must 
Whether it be unjust or just. 

2881 Butler : Epis. of Hudibras to His Lady. Line 193. 
For money has a power above 

The stars, aud fate, to manage love, 
Whose arrows learned poets hold, 
That never miss, are tipp'cl with gold. 

2882 Butler : Hudibras. Lady's Ans. to the Knight. Line 131- 

What macl lover ever died, 

To gain a soft and gentle bride? 

Or for a lady tender-hearted, 

In purling streams or hemp departed? 

2883 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 23. 
Love is Eest. 

2884 Bayard Taylor : Poet's Journal. Third Even. 

Love's humility is Love's true pride. 

2885 Bayard Taylor : Poet's Journal. Third Even. 
Love better is than Fame. 

2886 Bayard Taylor: Christmas Sonnets. Sonnet iv. 

I love thee, I love but thee, 

With a love that shall not die 

Till the sun grows cold, 

And the stars are old, 

And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold ! 

2887 Bayard Taylor: Bedouin Song. 

The proverb holds, that to be wise and love, 
Is hardly granted to the gocls above. 

2888 Dry den : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. ii. Line 974. 

Love the sense of right and wrong confounds, 
Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. 

2889 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2084. 

Love endures no tie, 
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury. 

2890 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. ii. Line 758. 

The power of love 
In earth, and seas, and air, and heaven above, 
Kules, unresisted, with an awful nod, 
By daily miracles declared a gocl. 
He blinds the wise, gives eyesight to the blind, 
And moulds and stamps anew the lover's mind. 

2891 Dryden : Palamon arA Arcite. Bk. ii. Line 960 



LOVE. 30fe 

Love never fails to master what he finds. 
But works a different way in different minds, 
The fool enlightens, and the wise lie blinds. 

2892 Dryden : Cymon and Iphigenia. Line 464. 
Mutual love brings mutual delight — 

Brings beauty, life; — for love is life, hate, death. 

2893 B. H. Dana: The Dying Baven. 
False love is only blind. 

2894 George Farquhar : Love and a Bottle. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Love can make us fiends as well as angels. 

2895 Charles King si ey : Saint's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Let those love now. who never loved before. 

Let those who always loved, now love the more. 

2896 Pamell : Trans, of Pervigilium Veneris, 
Love is. or ought to be, our greatest bliss ; 

Since ev'ry other joy, how dear soever, 
Gives way to that, and we leave all for love. 

2897 Bowe: Lady Jane Grey. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
When love once pleads admission to our hearts, 

In spite of all the virtue we can boast, 
The woman that deliberates is lost. 

2898 Addison : Cato. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Thou know'st it is a blind and foolish passion, 

Pleased and disgusted with it knows not what. 

2899 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. G. 
With what a graceful tenderness he loves ! 

And breathes the softest, the sincerest vows ! 
Complacency, and truth, and manly sweetness, 
Dwell ever on his tongue, and smooth his thoughts. 

2900 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 6. 
When love's well-tim'd, 'tis not a fault to love : 

The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, 
Sink in the soft captivity together. 

2901 Addison : Cato. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Love is not to be reason'd down, or lost 

In high ambition, and a thirst of greatness : 
'Tis second life, it grows into the soul. 
Warms ev'rv vein, and beats in ev'rv pulse. 

2902 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 1. 
O, rank is good, and gold is fair, 

And high and low mate ill ; 
But love has never known a law 
Beyond its own sweet will ! 

2903 Whittier : Amy Wentworth. Last St> 
Love, well thou know'st, no partnership allows : 

Cupid averse rejects divided vows. 

2904 Prior : Henri/ and Emma. Line 590. 



310 LOVE. 

If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see 

That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. 

2905 Congreve: The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12 

I think we had the chief of all love's joys 
Only in knowing that we loved each other. 

2906 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iii. 

O love, you were my crown. No other crown 
Is aught but thorns on my poor woman's brow. 

2907 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i. 

Love finds the need it fills. 

2908 George Eliot : Armgart. Sc. 5. 
Love that lived through all the stormy past. 

2909 William Callen Bryant : Future Life. 

Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, 
That well-known name awakens all my woes. 
Oh, name forever sad ! forever clear ! 
Still breath'd in sighs, still utter'd with a tear! 

2910 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 29 

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 

2911 Popte : Eloisa to A. Line 75„ 

O happy state ! when souls each other draw, 

"When love is liberty, and nature law : 

All then is full, possessing and possess'd, 

No craving void left aching in the breast ; 

Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part, 

And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart. 

2912 Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 91. 

Love why do we one passion call, 

When 'tis a compound of them all? 

Where hot and cold, where sharp and sweet, 

In all their equipages meet ; 

Where pleasures niix'cl with pains appear, 

Sorrow with joy, and hope with fear. 

2913 Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa. Line 769. 

A love large as life, deep and changeless as death. 

2914 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 9. 

And love, life's fine centre, includes heart and mind. 

2915 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto i. St. 17. 

Why should we kill the best of passions, love? 
It aids the hero, bids ambition rise, 
To nobler heights, inspires immortal deeds, 
Ev'n softens brutes, and adds a grace to virtue. 

2916 Thomson : Sophonisba. Act v. Sc. 2. 



love. aii 

Love is begot by Fancy, bred 
By Ignorance, by Expectation fed, 
Destroy'd by Knowledge, and at best 
Lost in the moment 'tis possess'd. 

2917 Lord Lansdowne : Miscellanies. Definition of Love* 

To die and part 
Is a less evil — but to part and live, 
There, there's the torment. 

2918 Lord Lansdowne : Heroic Love. Act ii. oc. 1 

What thing is love? — for sure love is a thing : — 

Love is a prick, love is a sting, 

Love is a pretty, pretty thing ; 

Love is a fire, love is a coal, 

Whose flame creeps in at every hole; 

And, as myself can best devise, 

His dwelling is in ladies' eyes, 

From whence he shoots his dainty darts 

Into the lusty gallants' hearts ; 

And ever since was call'd a god 

That Mars with Venus play'd even and odd. 

2919 George Peele: Love. 
And let th' aspiring youth beware of love, 

Of the smooth glance beware ; for 'tis too late, 
When on his heart the torrent-softness pours. 
Then wisdom prostrate lies, and fading fame 
Dissolves in air away. 

2920 Thomson : Seasons. .Spiking. Line 983. 
Banish that fear ; my flame can never waste, 

For love sincere refines upon the taste. 

2921 Gibber: Double Gallant. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Art thou not dearer to my eyes than light? 

Dost thou not circulate through all my veins? 
Mingle with life, and form my very soul? 

2922 Young : Busiris. Act v. Sc. 1. 
But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, 
Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures ; 

But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl. 

2923 Young : Revenge. Act i. Sc. 2. 
The maid that loves, 

Goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, 
And puts her trust in miracles for safety. 

2924 Young : Revenge. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
I hold it true, whate'er befall, 

I feel it when I sorrow most ; 
'Tis better to have loved and lost, 
Than never to have loved at all. 

2925 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xxvii. St. i. 



312 LOVE. 

For this is Love's nobility, — 
Not to scatter bread and gold, 
Goods and raiment bought and sold ; 
But to hold fast his simple sense, 
And speak the speech of innocence, . . 
For he that feeds men serveth few ; 
He serves all who dares be true. 

2926 Emerson : Celestial Love, 

It's gade to be merry and wise, 
It's gude to be honest and true, 
And afore you're off wi' the auld love 
It's best to be on wi' the new. 

2927 Old Scotch Song. It's Gude to Be Merry and Wise. 

Had we never loved so kindly, 
Had we never loved so blindly, 
Never met, or never parted, 
We had ne'er been broken-hearted. 

2928 Burns : Song. Ae Fond Kiss, 

It warms me, it charms me to mention but her name : 
It heats me, it beats me, and sets me a' on flame ! 

2929 . Burns : Epistle to Davie. St. 8. 

True Love is but a humble, low-born thing, 

And hath its food served up in earthenware ; 

It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, 

Through the every-dayness of this work-day world, 

Baring its tender feet to every roughness, 

Yet letting not one heartbeat go astray, 

From Beauty's law of plainness and content ; 

A simple, fireside thing, whose quiet smile 

Can warm earth's poorest hovel to a home. 

2930 James Russell Lowell : Love. 

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, 

Is — Love, forgive us ! cinders, ashes, dust. 

2931 Keats : Lamia. Pt. ii. Line 1. 

By those tresses uuconfin'd, 

Woo'd by each iEgean wind ; 

By those lids whose jetty fringe 

Kiss thy soft cheeks' blooming tinge ; 

By those wild eyes, like the roe, 

'Scori fxov, ads ayaww (My life, I love you). 

2932 Byron : Maid of Athens. 

Away ! away ! my early dream, 
Bemembrance never must awake ; 
Oh! where is Lethe's fabled stream? 
My foolish heart, be still, or break. 

2933 Byron : Well ! Thou art Happy 



LOVE. 313 

"Why did she We him? Curious fool! be still; 
Is human love the growth of humau will? 

2934 Byron : Lara. Canto ii. St. 22. 

Alas ! what else is love but sorrow? Eveu 
He who made earth in love, had soon to grieve 
Above its first and best inhabitants. 

2935 Byron: Heaven and Earth. Act i. Sc. 3. 

I loved her well ; I would have loved her better, 
Had love been met with love : as 'tis I leave her 
To brighter destinies, if so she deems them. 

2936 Byron : Heaven and Earth. Act i. Sc. 2. 

The war of elements no fears impart 

To love, whose deadliest bane is human art : 

There lie the only rocks our course can check. 

2937 Byron : Bride of Ab. Canto ii. St. 20. 

If changing cheek and scorching vein, 
Lips taught to writhe, but not complain, 
If bursting heart and madd'niug brain, 
And daring deed, and vengeful steel, 
And all that I have felt, and feel, 
Betoken love — that love was mine. 

2938 Byron: Giaour. Line 1124. 

Earth holds no other like to thee, 
Or if it doth, in vain for me. 

2939 Byron : Giaour. Line 1203. 

Love, indeed, is light from heaven; 
A spark of that immortal fire, 
With angels shared, by Allah given, 
To lift from earth our low desire. 
Devotion wafts the mind above, 
But heaven itself descends in love ; 
A feeling from the Godhead caught, 
To wean from self each sordid thought ; 
A ray of Him who form'd the whole ; 
A glory circling round the soul ! 

2940 Byron: Giaour. Line 1150. 
Love will find its way 

Tnrough paths where wolves would fear to prey, 
And if it dares enough 'twere hard 
If passion met not some reward. 

2941 Byron : Giaour. Line 1066. 
The cold in clime are cold in blood, 

Their love can scarce deserve the name ; 
But mine was like the lava flood 
That boils in iEtna's breast of flame. 

2942 Byron: Giaour. Line 1118- 



314 LOVE. 

Then there were sighs, the deeper for suppression, 
And stolen glances, sweeter for the theft, 
And burning blushes, tho' for no transgression, 
Tremblings when met, and restlessness when left. 

2943 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 74. 
O Love ! what is it in this world of ours 

Which makes it fatal to be lov'd? Ah, why 

With cypress branches hast thou wreath'd thy bowers, 

And made thy best interpreter a sigh? 

2944 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 2. 
Love bears within its breast the very germ 

Of change : and how should this be otherwise? 
That violent things more quickly find a term 
Is shown through nature's whole analogies. 

2945 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 94. 
O Love ! how perfect is thy mystic art, 
Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong, 
How self-deceitful is the sagest part 

Of mortals w T hom thy lure hath led along. 

2946 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 106. 

Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 

'Tis woman's whole existence. Man may range 

The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart, 

Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange 

Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, 

And few there are whom these cannot estrange ; 

Men have all these resources, we but one — 

To love again, and be again undone. 

2947 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 194. 

Love's a capricious power ; I've known it hold 
Out through a fever caused by its own heat ; 
But be much puzzled by a cough and cold, 
And find a quinsy very hard to treat. 

2948 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 22. 
Love must be sustained like flesh and blood — 

While Bacchus pours out wine; or hands a jelly. 

2949 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 170. 
My days of love are over, me no more 

The charms of maid, wife, and still less of widow, 
Can make the fool of which they made before. 

2950 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 216 
Alas ! the love of women ! it is known 

To be a lovely and a fearful thing : 
For all of theirs upon that die is thrown, 
And, if 'tis lost, life hath no more to bring 
To them, but mockeries of the past alone. 

2951 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 199. 



LOVE. 315 

O Love ! thou art the very god of evil, 
For, after all, we cannot call thee devil. 

2952 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 205. 

love ! glory ! what are ye who fly, 
Around us ever, rarely to alight? 
There's not a meteor in the polar sky 
Of such transcendent and more fleeting flight, 
Chill, and chain'd to cold earth, we lift on high 
Our eyes in search of either lovely light; 
A thousand aud a thousand colors they 
Assume, then leave us on our freezing way. 

2953 Byron : Don Juan. Canto vii. St, 1. 

" Love rules the camp, the court, the grove ; for love 
Is heaven, and heaven is love : " so sings the bard ; 
Which it were rather difficult to prove, 
(A thing with poetry iu general hard). 
Perhaps there may be something in " the grove," 
At least it rhymes to " love " : but I'm prepared, 
To doubt (uo less than landlords of their rental) 
If " courts and camps " be quite so sentimental. 

2954 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xii. St. 13. 

Yes, it was love, if thoughts of tenderness, 
Tried in temptation, strengthen'd by distress, 
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime, 
And yet — oh, more than all ! untired by time. 

2955 Byron: Corsair. Canto i. St. 12. 

'Tis his nature to advance or die ; 
He stands not still, but or decays, or grows 
Into a boundless blessing, which may vie 
With the immortal lights, in its eternitv- 

2956 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 103. 

O love ! young love ! bound in thy rosy band, 

Let sage or cynic prattle as he will, 

These hours, and only these, redeem life's years of ill! 

2957 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 81. 

O ! that the desert were my dwelling place, 
With one fair spirit for my minister, 
That I might all forget the human race, 
And, hating no one, love but only her. 

2958 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 177. 

For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, 

Sighs wishes, wishes word's, and words a letter: 



And then God knows what mischief may arise, 
When love links two young people in one fetter. 
2959 Byron : Beppo. St. 16 



316 LOVE. 

She was his life, 
The ocean to the river of his thoughts, 
Which terminated all. 

2960 Bijron: The Dnam. St. 2 

The rose is fairest when 'tis buckling new, 
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears ; 
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, 
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. 

2961 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. St. 1. 

True love's the gift which God "has given 

Tc man alone beneath the heaveu ; 

It is not fantasy's hot fire, 

Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; 

It liveth not in fierce desire, 

With dead desire it cloth not die ; 

It is the secret sympathy, 

The silver link, the silken tie, 

Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 

In body and in soul can bind. 

2962 Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. St. 13. 

In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; 

In war, he mounts the warrior's steed : 

In halls, in gay attire is seen ; 

In hamlets, dauces on the green ; 

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 

And men below, and saints above ; 

For love is heaven and heaven is love. 

2963 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iii. St. 2. 

In maiden confidence she stood, 
Though mantled in her cheek the blood, 
And told her love with such a sigh 
Of deep and hopeless agony. 

2964 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. St. 18. 

Oh, why should man's success remove 
The very charms that wake his love ! 

2965 Scott: Marmion. Canto iii. St. 17. 

I have heard of reasons manifold 
Why Love must needs be blind, 
But this the best of all I hold — 
His eyes are in his mind. 

2966 Coleridge : To a Lady. 

There is no pleasure like the pain 
Of being loved, and loving. 

2967 Praed: Legend of the Haunted Tree. 



love. 317 

Our love was like most other loves ; 

A little glow, a little shiver, 

A rose bud, aucl a pair of gloves, 

And " Fly not yet " — upon the river; 

Some jealousy of some one's heir, 

Some hopes of dying broken-hearted, 

A miniature, a lock of hair, 

The usual vows, — and then we parted. 

We parted; months and years rolled by; 
We met again four summers after ; 
Our parting was all sob and sigh ; 
Our meeting was all mirth and laughter : 
For in my heart's most secret cell 
There had been many other lodgers; 
And she was not the ball-room's belle ; 
But only — Mrs. Something Rogers! 

2968 * Braed : Belle of the Ball-room. 

Thev sin who tell us Love can die ; 



Its holy flame for ever burnetii ; 

From Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth : 

Too oft on Earth a troubled guest, 

At times deceiv'd, at times oppress'd, 

It here is tried and purified. 

Then Heaven hath its perfect rest : 

It soweth here with toil and care, 

But the harvest-time of Love is there. 

2969 Southey : Curse of Kehama. Canto x. St. 10. 

I know not, I ask not, if guilt's in that heart, 
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. 

2970 Moore: Irish Melodies. Come Rest in this Bosom. 

The choice what heart can doubt, 
Of tents with love or thrones without. 

2971 Moore : Lalla Bookh. Light of the Harem. 

Alas — how light a cause may move 

Dissension between hearts that love ! 

Hearts that the world in vain had tried, 

And sorrow but more closely tied ; 

That stood the storm, when waves were rough, 

Yet in a sunny hour fall off, 

Like ships that have gone down at sea, 

When heaven was all tranquillity. 

2972 Moore: Lalla Bookh. Light of the Harem. 

When once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, 
The maiden herself will steal after it soon. 

2973 Moore : Irish Melodies. Ill Omens, 



318 LOVE. 

So brief our existence, a glimpse at the most 
Is all we can have of the few we hold dear; 
And oft even joy is unheeded and lost, 
For want of some heart that could echo it near. 
Ah, well may we hope when this short life is gone, 
To meet in some world of more permanent bliss ; 
For a smile or a grasp of the hand, hast'ning on, 
Is all we enjoy of each other in this. 

2974 Moore : Irish Melodies. And Doth not a Meeting. 
And still, when a pair of lovers meet, 

There's a sweetness in air, unearthly sweet, 
That savors still of that happy retreat 
Where Eve by Adam was courted : 
Whilst the joyous thrush and the gentle dove. 
Woo'd their mates in the boughs above, 
And the serpent, as yet, only sported. 

2975 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Courtship. 
For all is bright, and beauteous, and clear, 

And the meanest thing most precious and dear, 

When the magic of love is present : 

Love, that lends a sweetness and grace 

To the humblest spot and the plainest face — 

That turns Wilderness Kow into Paradise Place, 

And Garlick Hill to Mount Pleasant ! 

2976 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Honeymoon. 
I love thee — I love thee ! 

'Tis all that I can say ; — 
It is my vision in the night, 
My dreaming in the clay ; 
The very echo of my heart, 
The blessing when I pray : 
I love thee — I love thee ! 
Is all that I can say. 

2977 Hood: I Love Thee. 
Who hath not felt that breath in the air, 

A perfume and freshness strange and rare, 

A warmth in the light, and a bliss everywhere, 

When young hearts yearn together? 

All sweets below, and all sunny above, 

Oh ! there's nothing in life like making love, 

Save making hay in fine weather ! 

2978 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Courtship. 
Some say Love, 

Poolish Love, 

Doth rule and govern all the gods : 

I say Love, 

Inconstant Love, 

Sets men's senses far at odds. 

2979 Bobert Greene : From Menaphon. Menaphon's Song. 



LOVE. 319 



Love is a lock that linketli noble minds, 
Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love, 
Lightness a wrest that wringeth all awry, 
Lightness a plague that fancy caunot brook ; 
Lightness in love so bad and base a thing, 
As foul disgrace to greatest states do[th] bring. 

2980 Bobert Greene : From Alcida. Verses under a Carv- 

ling of Cupid. 
Some men deem 
Gold their god, and some esteem 
Honor is the chief content 
That to man in life is lent ; 
And some others do contend, 
Quiet none like to a friend ; 
Others hold there is no wealth 
Compared to a perfect health ; 
Some man's mind in quiet stands 
When he is lord of many lands : 
But I did sigh, and said all this 
"Was but a shade of perfect bliss ; 
And in my thoughts I did approve, 
Naught so sAveet as is true love. 

2981 Robert Greene : Philomela's Ode that she Sung in her 

[Arbor. 
It's now a peace, and then a sudden war ; 
A hope consum'd before it is conceiv'd ; 
At hand it fears, and menaceth afar, 
And he that gains is most of all deceiv'd : 
It is a secret hidden and not known, 
Which one may better feel than w r rite upon. 

2982 Bobert Greene : From Menaphon. Sonnetto. 

Ah, what is love? It is a pretty thing, 

As sweet unto a shepherd as a king, 

And sweeter too, 

For kings have cares that wait upon a crown, 

And cares can make the sweetest love to frown. 

2983 Bobert Greene : From Mourning-Garment. Shep- 

[herd's Wife's Song. 
True love is at home on a carpet, 
And mightily likes his ease, — 
And true love has an eye for a dinner, 
And starves beneath shady trees. 
His wing is the fan of a lady, 
His foot's an invisible thing, 
And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, 
4.nd shot from a silver string. 

2984 Willis : Love in a Cottage, 



320 LOVE. 

What is love? 'tis nature's treasure, 
Tis the storehouse of her joys; 
'Tis the highest heaven of pleasure, 
'Tis a bliss which never cloys. 
2985 Thomas Chatterton : The Bevenge. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Love's a pleasure, solid, real, 
Nothing fanciful, ideal, 
'Tis the bliss of humankind ; 
All the other passions move 
In subjection under Love, 
"Tis the tyrant of the mind. 
2980 Thomas Chatterton : TJie Bevenge. Act i. Sc. i>. 

Then come the wild weather — come sleet or come snow. 
We will stand by each other, however it blow ; 
Oppression and sickness, and sorrow and pain, 
Shall be to our true love as links to the chain. 

2987 Longfellow : Annie of Tliaraw. 
The first sound in the song of love ! 

Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound. 
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings 
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul, 
And play the prelude of our fate. 

2988 Longfellow: Spanish Student. Act i. Sc. 3. 

I do not love thee less for what is done, 
And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness 
Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth 
My love will have a sense of pity in it, 
Making it less a worship than before. 

2989 Longfellow : Masque of Pandora. Pt. viii. 

So these lives that had run thus far in separate channels, 
Coming in sight of each other, then swerving and flowing 

asunder, 
Parted by barriers strong, but drawing nearer and nearer, 
Pushed together at last, and one was lost in the other. 

2990 Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish. Pt. viii. 

On thy breast Love lies, immortal child, 
Begot of thine own longings, deep and wild; 
The more we worship him the more we grow 
Into thy perfect image here below ; 
For here below, as in the spheres above, 
All Love is Beauty, and all Beauty — Love ! 

2991 B. II. Stoddard : Hymn to the Beautiful 

A lover's eyes are bright, 

In the darkest night, 

And jealous even of dreams, almost of thee — Sleep. 

2992 B. H. Stoddard : Invocation to Sleep- 



LOVE. 321 

What is life when love is flown? 
We breathe, indeed, we grieve, we sigh, 
And seem to live, and yet we die : 
There is no life alone. 

2993 B. H Stoddard : The Squire of Low Degree. 
Love always looks for love again. 

If ever single, it is twain, 
And till it finds its counterpart 
It bears about an aching heart. 

2994 B. H Stoddard : Love's Will 
Love has a tide ! 

2995 Helen Hunt : Tides. 
When Love is strong, 

It never tames to take heed, 

Or know if its return exceed 

Its gift; in its sweet haste no greed, 

No strifes belong. 

2996 Helen Hunt : Love's Fulfilling. 
When love is at its best, one loves 

So much that he cannot forget. 

2997 Helen Hunt : Two Truths. 
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. 

2998 Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Mountain. 
Life is less than nothing without love. 

2999 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea. 
The love which giveth all, f orgiveth aught. 

3000 Bailey : Festus. Sc. The Drawing Room. 
Love spends his all, and still hath store. 

3001 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Large Party and Entertainment. 
Love : — what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, 

A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, 
The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment, 
What concentrated joy or woe in blest or blighted love. 

3002 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Love. 
Love with life is heaven ; and life, unloving, hell. 

3003 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Immortality. 
God will not love thee less because men love thee more. 

3004 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Tolerance. 
Love is too precious to be named. 

Sav2 with a reverence deep and high. 

3005 Alice Cary : The Living Present, 
When we met first and loved, I did not build 

Upon the event with marble. Could it mean 
To last, a love set pendulous between 
Sorrow and sorrow? 

3006 Mrs. Brovming : Sonnets fr. Portuguese. Sonnet xxxvi 



322 LOVE. 

There is no one beside thee and no one above thee. 
Thon standest alone as the nightingale sings ! 
And my words that would praise thee are impotent things. 
For none can express thee, though all should approve thee! 
I love thee, so, Dear, that I only can love thee. 

3007 Mrs. Browning : Insufficiency. 
If thou must love me, let it be for naught 

Except for love's sake only. Do not say 

"I love her for her smile, her look, her way 

Of speaking gently, for a trick of thought 

That falls in well with mine, and certes brought 

A sense of pleasant ease on such a day ; " 

For these things in themselves, Beloved, may 

Be changed, or change for thee — and love, so wrought, 

May be un wrought so. Neither love me for 

Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry; 

A creature might forget to weep, who bore 

Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby. 

But love me for love's sake, that evermore 

Thou may'st love on through love's eternity. 

3008 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets fr. Portuguese. Sonnet xiv. 

Who can fear 
Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll — 
Too many flowers, though each can crown. the year? 
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me — toll 
The silver iterance ! — only miu cling, Dear, 
To love me also in silence, with thy soul. 

3009 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets fr. Portuguese. Sonnet xxi. 
I love thee to the level of every day's 

Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. 

I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; 

I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise ; 

I love thee with the passion put to use 

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. 

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose 

With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, 

Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, 

I shall but love thee better after death. 

3010 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets fr. Portuguese. Sonnet xliii. 
Whoever lives true life will love true love. 

3011 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. i. Line 1096. 
Do I love thee ? Ask the flower 

If she loves the vernal shower, 
Or the kisses of the sun, 
Or the dew, when day is done. 
As she answers, Yes or No, 
Darling ! take my answer so. 

3012 J. G. Saxe: Do I Love Thee? 



LOYALTY — MADNESS. 323 

LOYALTY. 

I'd serve my prince, 
I'd serve him with my fortune here at home, 
And serve him with my person in his wars: 
Watch for him, fight for him. bleed for him, 
Die for him, as ev'ry true-born loyal subject ought. 

3013 Otway : Orphan. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
LUCK. 

A farmer travelling- with his load 
Picked up a horseshoe on the road, 
And nailed it fast to his barn door, 
That luck might down upon him pour, 
That every blessing known in life 
Might crown his homestead and his wife, 
And never any kind of harm 
Descend upon his growing farm. 

3014 James T. Fields : The Lucky Horseshoe. 

LUXURY. 

What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, 
Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare ; 
Blood stuff d in skins is British Christians' food, 
And France robs marshes of the croaking brood. 

3015 Gay : Trivia. Bk. iii. Line 199. 
O Luxury ! thou curs'd by heaven's decree, 

How ill-exchang'd are things like these for thee ! 
How do thy potions, with insidious joy, 
Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy ! 

3016 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 395. 
Sofas, 'twas half a sin to sit upon, 

So costly were they; carpets, even- stitch 
Of workmanship so rare, they made you wish 
You could glide o'er them like a golden fish. 

3017 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 65. 



M. 

MACHIAVELLI. 
Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick 
Tho' he gave his name to our Old Nick, 
But was below the least of these, 
That pass th' world for holiness. 

3018 Butler : Hudihras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1313. 

MADNESS — see Deceit. 

I am not mad ; — I would to heaven I were ! 
For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; 
0, if I could, what grief should I forget ! 

3019 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 4. 



324 MADNESS — MAN. 

By mine honesty, 
If she be mad, as I believe no other, 
Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense 
(Such a dependency of thing on thing) 
As e'er I heard in madness. 

3020 Shaks. : M for M. Act v. Sc. 1, 
That he is mad, 'tis true; 'tis true, 'tis pity; 

And pity 'tis 'tis true. 

3021 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Though this be madness, vet there is method in it. 

3022 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 

3023 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Oh, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! 

The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword : 
Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state. 

3024 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
My pulse, as yours, cloth temp'rately keep time, 

And makes as healthful music : it is not madness, 
That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, 
And I the matter will re-word ; which maduess 
Would gambol from. 

3025 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Alas, how is't with you, 

That you do bend your eye on vacancy, 

And with the incorporal air do hold discourse? 

3026 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
There is a pleasure sure, 

In being mad, which none but madmen know. 

3027 Dryden : Sp. Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Great wits are sure to maduess near allied, 

And thin partitions clo their bounds divide. 

3028 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 163. 

MAN— see Authority, Character, Charity, Courage, Coward- 
ice, Delay, Home, Hypocrisy, Idleness, Measures. 
O, what may man within him hide, 
Though angel on the outward side ! 

3029 Shaks. : 31. for M. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

They say, best men are moulded out of faults ; 
And for the most, become much more the better 
For being a little bad. 

3030 Shaks. : M. of M. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Oh, what men dare do ! what men ma}- do ! what men daily 

do (not knowing what they do). 

3031 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1 



MAN. 325 

Cf you were men, as men you are in show, 
Fou would not use a gentle lady so. 

3032 Shahs. : Mid. X. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
In speech, in gait, 

Tn diet, in affections of delight, 

In military rules, humors of blood, 

He was the mark and glass, copy and book, 

That fashion'd others. 

3033 ShaJcs. : 2 Henry IV Act ii. Sc. 3. 
But we all are men , 

In our own natures frail ; and capable 
Of our flesh, few are angels. 

303-1 ShaJcs. : Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy, 
Thy school-clays frightful, desp'rate, wild, and furious, 
Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and vent'rous. 

3035 Shaks. : Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
A rarer spirit never 

Did steer humanity ; but you, gods, will give us 
Some faults to make us men. 

3036 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 1. 
God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. 

3037 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2. 
His life was gentle ; and the elements 

So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up. 
And say to all the world, ' ' This was a man ! " 

3038 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act v. Sc. 5. 
There's no trust, 

No faith, no honest3 r in men ; all perjur'd, 
All forsworn, all nought, all dissemblers. 

3039 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
He was a man, take him for all in all, 

I shall not look upon his like again. 

3040 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
A combination, and a form, indeed, 

Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To o-ive the world assurance of a man. 

3041 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Men, more divine, the masters of all these, 

Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas, 
Indued with intellectual sense and souls, 
Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, 
Are masters to their females, and their lords. 

3042 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Men should be what they seem ; 

Or, those that be not, would they might seem none ! 

3043 Shaks. : ^Othello. Act iii. Sc. 5. 



326 MAN. 

I will sooner trust a crocodile, 
When he sheds tears ; (for he kills suddenly, 
And ends our cares at once ;) or anything 
That's evil to our natures, than a man; 
I find there is no end of his deceivings, 
Nor no avoiding them, if we give way. 

3044 Beaumont and Fletcher : The Captain. Act iii. Sc. 4 

Man is one world, and hath 
Another to attend him. 

3045 Herbert : TJie Temple. Man. 

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, 
Till thou return unto the ground; for thou 
Out of the ground wast taken : know thy birth, 
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return. 

3046 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 205. 

Trust not a man ; we are by nature false, 
Dissembling, subtle, cruel, and uncoustant : 
When a man talks of love, with caution trust him ; 
But, if he swears, he'll certainly deceive thee. 

3047 Otway : Orphan. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Men are but children of a larger growth ; 
Our appetites are apt to change as theirs, 
And full as craving too. and full as vain. 

3048 Dry den : All for Lore. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

"We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's 

shame ; 
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. 

3049 Tennyson : Maud. Pt. iv. St. 5. 
But what am I? 

An infant crying in the night : 
An infant crying for the light : 
And with no language but a cry. 

3050 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. liii. St. 5. 

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men. 

3051 James Russell Lowell : The Capture. 
Consider, man : weigh well thy frame, 

The king, the beggar, is the same ; 

Dust form'cl us all. Each breathes his clay, 

Then sinks into his native clay. 

3052 Gay: Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 16. 
Man is practis'd in disguise, 

He cheats the most discerning eyes. 

3053 Gay: Fables. Introduction. 
Fix'cl like a plant on his peculiar spot, 

To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. 

3054 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis ii. Line 63 



MAN. 327 

Know then thyself , presume not God to scan, 
The proper study of mankind is Man. 
Plac'd ou this isthmus of a middle state, 
A being darkly wise, and rudely great : 
With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, 
He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; 
Iu doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; 
In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; 
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err. 

3055 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 1. 
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, 

Reason the card, but passion is the gale. 

3056 Pope : Essay on Han. Epis. ii. Line 107. 
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, 

Few in the extreme, but all in the degree. 

3057 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 231. 
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; 

The rest is all but leather or prunella. 

3058 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 203. 
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; 

Still by himself abused, or disabused; 
Created half to rise, and half to fall; 
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; 
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; 
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. 

3059 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 13. 
Know, Nature's children all divide her care ; 

The fur that warms a monarch warm'cl a bear. 
While man exclaims, " See all things for my use ! " 
" See man for mine ! " replies a pamper'd goose : 
And just as short of reason he must fall, 
Who thinks all made for one, not one for all. 

30G0 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 43. 

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, 
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : - 
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, 
A little louder, but as empty quite : 
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, 
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : 
Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, 
Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. 

3061 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 275. 
Man is a very worm by birth, 

Vile, reptile, weak and vain! 
Awhile he crawls upon the earth, 
Then shrinks to earth again. 

3062 Pope : To Mr. J. Moore. 



328 MAN. 

Not always actions show the man : we find 

Who does a kindness, is not therefore kind; 

Perhaps prosperity becalm'd his breast ; 

Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east : 

Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat, 

Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great. 

Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, 

He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave : 

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, 

His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. 

3063 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 109 
See the same man in vigor, in the gout; 

Alone, in company, in place, or out ; 
Early at business, and at hazard late ; 
Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a debate ; 
Drunk at a borough, civil at a ball; 
Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall. 

3064 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 70. 
A Christian is the highest style of man. 

3065 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 788. 
Pond man ! the vision of a moment made ! 

Dream of a dream ! and shadow of a shade ! 

3066 Young : Par. on Job. Line 187. 
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, 

How complicate, how wonderful is man ! 
How passing wonder He who made him such ! 
Who centred in our make such strange extremes. 

3067 Young : Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 68. 
All are men, 

Conclemn'd alike to groan ; 
The tender for another's pain, 
Th' unfeeling for his own. 

3068 Gray : Prospect of Eton College. St. 10. 
Man wants but little here below, 

Nor wants that little long. 

3069 Goldsmith : Edwin and Angelina. Line 8. 
What tho' on hamely fare we dine, 

Wear hocldin gray, and a' that? 

Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine, 

A man's a man for a' that ! 

3070 Burns : For a' That and a' That. 
All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades 

Like the fair flower, dishevell'd iu the wind : 
Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream. 

3071 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 259. 
Man is a summer's day ; whose youth and fire 

Cool to a glorious evening, and expire. 

3072 Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons. 



( 



MAN. 320 

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest 

And passage through these looms 

God order'd motion, but ordain'd no rest. 

3073 Henry Vaughan : 2Tan. 
Man is of soul and bod}-, formed for deeds 

Of high resolve ; ou fancy's boldest wing- 
To soar unwearied, fearlessly to turn 
The keenest pangs to peacef ulness, and taste 
The joys which mingled sense and spirit yield; 
Or he is formed for abjectuess and woe, 
To grovel on the duughillof his fears, 
To shrink at every souud, to quench the flame 
Of natural love in sensualism, to know 
That hour as blest when on his worthless days 
The frozen hand of death shall set its seal, 
Yet fear the cure, though hating the disease. 
The one is man that shall hereafter be, 
The other, man as vice has made him now. 

3074 Shelley: Queen Hab. PL iv. 

Beyond the poet's sweet dream lives 
The eternal epic of the man. 

3075 Whittier : The Grave by The Lake. St. 34. 

Strong to the end, a man of men, from out the strife he 

passed ; 
The grandest hour of all his life was that of earth the 

last. 

3076 Whittier: John Quincy Adams. 

Let each man think himself an act of God, 
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. 

3077 Bailey : Festus. Proem. Line 162. 

It matters not what men assume to be ; 
Or good, or bad, they are but what they are. 

3078 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Wood and Water. 

What is man? A foolish baby; 
Vainly strives, and fights, and frets : 
Demanding all, deserving nothing, 
One small grave is all he gets. 

3079 Carlyle : Cut Bono. 
Man, as says each bearded sage, 

Is but a piece of clay, 

Whose mystic moisture lost by age, 

To dust it falls away. 

3080 Thomas Chatterton : The Bevenge. Act i. Sc. 6. 

Born to be plough'd with years, and sown with cares, 
And reap'd by Death, lord of the human soil. 

3081 Byron : Heaven and Earth. Act i. Sc. 3. 



330 MAN— MANNERS. 

Men are the sport of circumstances, when 
The circumstances seem the sport of men. 

3082 Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 17. 

Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, 
And wonderful beyond all wondrous measure ; 
'Tis pity tho', in this sublime world, that 
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. 

3083 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 133. 

Man's a strange animal, and makes strange use 
Of his own nature and the various arts, 
And likes particularly to produce 
Some new experiment to show his parts. 

3084 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto i. St. 128. 

Virgins are soft as the roses the}- twine, 
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine. 

3085 Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 1. 

Admire, exult — despise, — laugh, weep, — for here 
There is such matter for all feeling : — man ! 
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. 

3086 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 109. 

Once in the flight of ages past, 
There liv'd a man : — and who was he? 
Mortal ! howe'er thy lot be cast, 
That man resembled thee. 

3087 James Montgomery : Common Lot, 

MANNERS. 
Eit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, 
Where manners ne'er were preach'd. 

3088 Shales. : Tw. Night. Act iv. Sc. 1, 

Defect of manners, want of government, 
Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain; 
The least of which, haunting a nobleman, 
Loseth men's hearts, and leaves behind a stain 
Upon the beauty of all parts besides ; 
Beguiling them of commendation. 

3089 ' Shales. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as; it flies, 
And catch the manners, living as /they rise; 
Laugh where we must, be candid/ where we can ; 
BuWinclicate the ways of God to man. 

3090 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 13. 

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, 
Tenets with books, and principles with times. 

3091 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 172 



MAR CH — MARRIA GE. 331 

MARCH. 
March ! — A cloudy stream is flowing, 
And a hard steel blast is blowing; 
Bitterer now than I remember 
Ever to have felt or seen, 
In the depths of drear December, 
When the white doth hide the green: 
Not a trembling weed up-peereth 
From its dark home underground; 
Violet now nor primrose heareth 
In her sleep a single sound ; 
All in wintry torpor bound ! 
JS"ot a sparrow on the spray ! 
Xot a lark to greet the day ! 

3092 Barry Cornv:all : March, April, May, 
The stormy March is come at last, 

With wind, and clouds, and changing skies; 
I hear the rushing of the blast, 
That through the snowy valleys flies. 

3093 William Cullen Bryant : March. 
Still "the north wind breathes 

His frost, and still the sky sheds snow and sleet. 

3094 William Cullen Bryant : Twenty-seventh of March. 

Ah. March! we know thou art 
Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, 
And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets ! 

3095 Helen Hunt: March. 

MARRIAGE, MATRIMONY — see Courtship, Father, Happi- 
ness, Husband, Love, Mother, Widows. 
Give me, next good, an understanding wife, 
By nature wise, not learned by much art ; 
Some knowledge on her part, will, all her life, 
More scope of conversation impart ; 
Besides her inborn virtue fortify ; 
Thev are most firmly good, that best know why. 

3096 Sir Thomas Overbury : A Wife, 
Ko sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall 

To make this contract grow ; but barren hate, 
Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew 
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly, 
That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed. 

3097 Shahs.: Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Look down, you gods, 

And on this couple drop a blessed crown. 

3098 Shales. : Tempest. Act v. Sc. L 
In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state ; 
Money buys land, and wives are sold by fate. 

' 3099 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act v. Sc. 5, 



332 MARRIAGE. 

Let still the woman take 
An elder than herself; so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart. 
For, boj% however Ave do praise ourselves, 
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 
More longing-, wavering, sooner lost and won, 
Than women's are. 

3100 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act ii. Sc. 4 
The ancient saying is no heresy ; — 

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. 

3101 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. 
A light wife doth make a heavj^ husband. 

3102 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice, Act v. Sc. 1. 
A young man married is a man that's marred 

3103 Shaks. : All's Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Honest company, I thank you all, 
That have beheld me give away myself 
To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife. 

3104 Shaks.: Tarn, of the S. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, 
Thy head, thy sovereign : one that cares for thee, 
And for thy maintenance : commits his body 
To painful labor, both by sea and land ; 
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, 
While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe, 
And craves no other tribute at thy hands, 
But love, fair looks, and true obedience ; 
Too little payment for so great a debt. 

3105 Shaks.: Tarn, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Such duty as the subject owes the prince. 
Even such a woman oweth to her husband: 
And, wheu she's f rowarcl, peevish, sullen, sour, 
And not obedient to his honest will, 
What is she, but a foul contending rebel, 
And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? 

3106 Shaks.: Tarn, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. 
I am asham'd, that women are so simple 

To offer war, where they should kneel for peace : 
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, 
When they are bound to serve, love, aud obey. 

3107 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Keason, my son 

Should choose himself a wife : but as good reason, 
The father (all whose joy is nothing else 
But fair Posterity) should hold some counsel 
In such a business. 

3108 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. a 



MARRIAGE. 333 

Should all despair, 
That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind 
Would hang themselves. 

3109 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 

He is the half-part of a blessed man 
Left to be finished by such a she; 
And she a fair divided excellence. 
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. 
O, two such silver currents, when they join, 
Do glorify the banks that bound them" in ! 

3110 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Hastv marriage seldom proveth well. 

3111 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. L 
What is wedlock forced, but a hell, 

An age of discord and continual strife? 
Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss, 
And is a pattern of celestial peace. 

3112 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 5, 
Marriage is a matter of more worth 

Than to be dealt in by attornevship. 

3113 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 5. 
The instances, that second marriage move, 

Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. 

3111 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors. 
My very noble and approv'd good masters, 
That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, 
It is most true ; true. I have married her; 
The very head and front of my offending 
Hath this extent, no more. 

3115 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3= 
Oh, the music and beauty of life lose their worth, 

When one heart only joys in their smile ; 

But the union of hearts gives that pleasure its birth, 

Which beams on the darkest and coldest of earth 

Like the sun on his own chosen isle ; 

It gives to the fireside of winter the light, 

The glow and the glitter of spring — 

O sweet are the hours, when two fond hearts unite, 

As softly they glide, in their innocent flight 

Away on a motionless wing. 

3116 Bohn : Ms. 
The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, 

Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, 
Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, 
Eternity of pleasures. 

3117 Ford: Broken Heart. Act ii. Sc. % 



334 MARRIAGE. 

The sum of all that makes a just man happy 
Consists in the well choosing- of his wife ; 
And there, well to discharge it, does require 
Equality of years, of birth, of fortune; 
For beauty being poor, and not cried up 
By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither. 
And Wealth, where there's such difference in years 
And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy. 

3118 Massinger : New Way to Pay Old Debts. Act iv. Sc. 1 

Our Maker bids increase ; who bids abstain 
But our destroyer, foe to God and man. 

3119 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 748. 

For contemplation he and valor form'd ; 
For softness she and sweet attractive grace. 

3120 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 297. 

Hail, wedded love! mysterious law, true source 
Of human offspring. 

3121 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 750. 

When men upon their spouses seiz'd, 
And freely married where they pleas'd ; 
They ne'er forswore themselves, nor lied, 
Nor, in the mind they were in, died ; 
Nor took the pains t' address and sue, 
Nor play'd the masquerade to woo. 

3122 Butler : Epis. of Hudibras to his Lady. Line 239. 

For women first were made for men, 
Not men for them. It follows, then, 
That men have right to every one, 
And they no freedom of their own; 
And therefore men have power to choose 
But they no charter to refuse. 

3123 Butler: Epis. of Hudibras to his Lady. Line 273. 

Though women first were made for men, 
Yet men were made for them again : 
For when (out-witted by his wife) 
Man first turn'cl tenant but for life, 
If woman had not interven'd 
How soon had mankind had an end ! 

3121 Butler : Hudibras. Lady's Ans. to the Knight. Line 239 

Marriage is the life-long miracle, 

The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh. 

3125 Charles King sley : Sainfs Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 9 

Love's history, as Life's, is ended not 
Bv marriage. 

3126 Bayard Taylor: Lars. Bk. iii, 



MARRIAGE. 335 

He, who was half my self ! 
One faith has ever bouucl us, and one reason 
Guided our wills. 

3127 Rowe : Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. I 
And now your matrimonial Cupid, 

Lash'd on by time, grows tired and stupid. 

For story and experience tell us 

That man grows old and woman jealous. 

Both would their little ends secure ; 

He sighs for freedom, she for power: 

His wishes tend abroad to roam, 

And hers to domineer at home. 

3128 Prior : Alma. Canto ii. Line 63, 
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure. 
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. 

3129 Gongreve : Old Bachelor. Act v. Sc. 3. 
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, 

Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules. 
Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, 
Yet has her humor most when she obeys. 

3130 Pope: Iforal Essays. Epis. ii. Line 261. 
There swims no goose so gray, but soon or late, 

She finds some honest gander for her mate. 

3131 Pope: Wife of Bath. Line 98. 
Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, 

That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. 

3132 Pope: January and May. Liue 21. 

Where friendship full-exerts her softest power, 

Perfect esteem euliveu'd by desire 

Iueffable, and sympathy of soul ; 

Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, 

With boundless confidence : for nought but love 

Can answer love, and render bliss secure. 

3133 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 1037. 
But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! 

Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate 

Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend ! 

3134 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 1030. 
Ev'n in the happiest choice, where fav'ring heaven 

Has equal love and easy fortune giv'n, — 
Think not, the husband gain'd, that all is done; 
The prize of happiness must still be won : 
And, oft, the careless find it to their cost, 
The lover in the husband may be lost ; 
The graces might alone his heart allure; 
They and the virtues, meeting, must secure. 

3135 Lord Lyttelton : Advice to a Lady 



33G MARRIAGE. 

All of a tenor was their after-life, 
No day discolor'cl with domestic strife ; 
No jealousy, but mutual truth believed, 
Secure repose, and kindness undeceiv'cl. 

3136 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2424. 

Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers, 

We, who improve his golden hours, 

By sweet experience know 

That marriage, rightly understood, 

Gives to the tender and the good 

A paradise below. 

3137 Cotton : Fireside. St. 5. 

O, friendly to the best pursuits of man, 
Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, 
Domestic life in rural pleasure pass'd ! 
Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets. 

3138 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 288. 

Misses ! the tale that I relate 
This lesson seems to carry — 
Choose not alone a proper mate 
But proper time to marry. 

3139 Cowper : Pairing -time Anticipated. Moral. 

Wedlock's a saucy, sad, familiar state, 
Where folks are very apt to scold and hate : — 
Love keeps a modest distance, is divine. 
Obliging, and says ev'iy thing that's flue. 

3140 Peter Pindar : A Rowland for an Oliver. Ode on 

[Matrimony. 
Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine — 
A sad, sour, sober beverage — by time 
Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor 
Down to a very homely household savor. 

3141 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 5. 

Talk six times with the same single lady, 
And you may get the wedding dresses ready. 

3142 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto xii. St. 59. 

There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, 
When two. that are link'cl in one heavenly tie, 
With heart never changing, and brow never cold, 
Love on thro' all ills, and love on till they die. 
One hour of a passion so sacred is worth 
Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss; 
And oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, 
It is this — it is this ! 

3143 Moore: Lalla Bookh. Light of the Harem. 



MARRIA GE — MASQUERADE. 337 

Ob, happy, happy, thrice happy state, 

When such a bright Planet governs the fate 

Of a pair of united lovers ! 

'Tis theirs, in spite of tbe Serpent's hiss, 

To enjoy the pure primeval kiss 

With as much of tbe old original bliss 

As mortality ever recovers ! 

3144 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Honeymoon. 

But alas ! alas ! for the Woman's fate, 
Who has from a mob to choose a mate ! 
'Tis a strange and painful mystery ! 
But the more the eggs, the worse the hatch; 
The more the fish, the worse the catch; 
The more the sparks, the worse the match; 
Is a fact in Woman's history. 

3145 Hood: Miss Kilmansegg. Her Courtship. 

Across the threshold led, 
And every tear kissed off as soon as shed, 
His house she enters, there to be a light, 
Shining within, when all without is night ; 
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, 
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing ! 

3146 Rogers : Human Life. 

MARTYRS. 
Life has its martyrs, as brave, as strong, and as faithful, 
E'en as the martyrs of death. 

3147 HHBoyesen: Calpurnia. Pt. iv. 
A pale martyr in his shirt of fire. 

3148 Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Sc. 2. 
MARY. 

I have a passion for the name of " Mary," 
For once it was a magic sound to me, 
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, 
Where I beheld what never was to be. 

3149 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 4. 

MASQUERADE. 

Hail, blest Confusion ! here are met 

All tongues and times aud faces, 

The Lancers flirt with Juliet, 

The Brahmin talks of races ; 

And where's your genius, bright Corinne? 

And where your brogue, Sir Lucius? 

And Chinca Ti, you have not seen 

One chapter of Confucius. 

Lo ! dandies from Kamtschatka flirt 

With beauties from the Wrekin ; 



338 MASTERS — MAY. 

And belles from Berne look very pert, 
On Mandarins from Pekin ; 
The Cardinal is here from Rome, 
The Commandant from Seville ; 
And Hamlet's father from the tomb, 
And Fanstus from the Devil. 

3150 Praed : Fancy Ball. Sts. 6 and 7. 

MASTERS. 
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 
Cannot be truly followed. 

3151 Shales.: Othello. Act i. Sc. 1. 

MATCH-MAKING. 

How all the needy honorable misters, 
Each out-at-elbow peer, or desperate dandy, 
The watchful mothers, and the carefnl sisters, 
(AVho, by the by, when clever, are more handy 
At making matches, where " 'tis gold that glisters," 
Than their he relatives) , like flies o'er candy, 
Buzz round " the Fortune " with their busy battery, 
To turn her head with waltzing and with flatteiy ! 

3152 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xii. St. 32. 

MATHEMATICS. 

In mathematics he was greater 
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater ; 
For he, by geometric scale, 
Could take the size of pots of ale. 

3153 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 119. 

MAY. 
For thee, sweet month, the groves green liveries wear, 
If not the first, the fairest of the year; 
For thee the Graces lead the dancing hours, 
And Nature's ready pencil paints the flowers. 
When thy short reign is past, the feverish sun 
The sultry tropic fears, and moves more slowly on. 

3154 Dry den : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. ii. Line 663. 

The voice of one who goes before, to make 
The paths of June more beautiful, is thine, 
Sweet May ! 

3155 Helen Hunt: May. 
The new-born May, 

As cradled yet in April's lap she lay. 
Born in yon blaze of orient sky, 
Sweet May ! thy radiant form unfold, 
Unclose thy blue voluptuous eye, 
And wave thy shadowy locks of gold. 

3156 Erasmus Darwin: L. of the Plants. Canto ii. Line 307 



MAY. 339 

Among the changing months, May stands confessed 
The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. 

3157 Thomson : On May. 
The daisies peep from ev'ry field, 

And vi'lets sweet their odor yield ; 
The purple blossom paints the thorn, 
And streams reflect the blush of morn. 
Then, lads and lasses all, be gay, 
For this is Nature's holiday. 

3158 Peter Pindar : Pindar iana. May Day. 
In the Orient — light ! A haze 

O'er the deep night-blackness strays : 
Thro' the cloudy pall it poureth, 
O'er the mountain scalp it soareth, 
Over, through, afar, around, 
(Warming all the heart of May,) 
Runs the light without a sound, 
From the black into the gray, 
From the gray into the dawn, 
Silvering all its folds of lawn, 
Till it bursts upon the Day. 

3159 Barry Cornwall : March, April, May. 
Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, 

Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her 
The flowery May, who, from her green lap, throws 
The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. 
Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire 
Mirth and youth, and warm desire ! 
Woods and groves are of thy dressing; 
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. 
Thus we salute thee with our early song, 
And welcome thee and wish thee long. 

3160 Milton : Song on May Morning. 
'Tis like the birthday of the world, 

When earth was born in bloom ; 

The light is made of many dyes, 

The air is all perfume : 

There's crimson buds, and white and blue, 

The very rainbow showers 

Have turned to blossoms where they fell, 

And sown the earth with flowers. 

3161 Hood: Song. Lady. 
Hebe's here. May is here ! 

The air is fresh and sunny ; 
And the miser-bees are busy 
Hoarding golden honey. 
See the knots of buttercups, 
And the purple pansies. 

3162 T. B. Aldrich : May. 



340 MA Y — MEE TING. 

O May, sweet-voiced one going- thus before, 
Forever June may pour lier warm red wine 
Of iifc and passion, — sweeter days arc thine. 

31G3 Helen Hunt: May 

Wreaths for the May ! for happy Spring- 
To-day shall all her dowry bring, — 
The love of kind, the joy, the grace, 
Hymen of element and race, 
Knowing well to celebrate 
With song and hue and star and state, 
With tender light and youthful cheer, 
The spousals of the new-born year. 

316-1 Emerson : May-Day. Line 257. 

MEASURES. 

Measures, not men, have always been my mark. 

31G5 Goldsmith : Good-Natured Man. Act ii. 

MEETING — see Welcome. 

When shall we three meet again 
In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 

3166 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 1. 
A hundred thousand welcomes : I could weep, 

And I could laugh! I am light, and heavy: welcome : 
A curse begin at every root of his heart, 
That is not glad to see thee ! 

3167 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
It gives me wonder, great as my content, 

To see you here before me. 

3168 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Each hour until we meet is as a bird 

That wings from far his gradual way along 

The rustling covert of my soul, — his song 

Still loudlier trilled through leaves more deeply stirr'd : 

But at the hour of meeting, a clear word 

Is every note he sings, in Love's own tongue. 

3169 Dante Gabriel Bossetti : Winged Hours. Sonnet xv. 
We turn the pages that they read, 

Their written words we linger o'er, 

But iu the sun they cast uo shade, 

No voice is heard, no sign is made, 

No step is on the conscious floor ! 

Yet Love will dream, and Faith will trust, 

(Since He who knows our need is just,) 

That somehow, somewhere, meet we must. 

3170 Whittier: Snow-Bound 
She wore a wreath of roses, 

The night that first we met. 

3171 Tliomas Haynes Bayly : She Wore a Wreath 



MEETING — MELANCHOL Y. 341 

We met — 'twas in a crowd. 

3172 Thomas Haynes Bayly : We Met. 

MELANCHOLY — see Cheerfulness, Money. 
I can snck melancholy out of a soni>\ 

3173 Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 5. 
1 am as melancholy as a 2,'ib cat. 

3174 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. % 
Tell me, sweet lord, what is't that takes from thee 

Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep? 
Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth ; 
And start so often when thou sitt'st alone? 
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy cheeks ; 
And giv'n my treasures, and my rights of thee. 
To thick-ey'cl musing, and curs'd melancholy? 

3175 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Briefly this, 

A mere commotion of the mind, o'ercharged 
With fear and sorrow: first begot i' th' brain, 
The seat of reason, and from thence deriv'd 
As suddenly into the heart, the seat 
Of our affection. 

3176 Ford : Lover's Melancholy. Act iii. Sc. 1 
These pleasures, Melancholy, give; 

And I with thee will choose to live. 

3177 Milton: 11 Penseroso. Line 175. 
O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, 
Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, 

Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws 
A death-like silence and a dread repose ; 
Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, 
Shades ev'ry flower, and darkens ev'ry green ; 
Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, 
And breathes a browner horror on the woods. 

3178 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 163. 
Why shines the sun, except that he 

Makes gloomy nooks for Grief to hide, 
And pensive shades for Melancholy. 

3179 Hood: Ode to Melancholy. Line 27. 
With eyes uprais'd, as one inspir'd, 

Pale Melanchoty sat retir'd ; 

And from her wild sequester'd seat, 

In notes by distance made more sweet, 

Pour'd through the mellow horn her pensive soul. 

3180 Collins: Ode. The Passions. Line 57 
As melancholy as an unbraced drum. 

3181 Centlicre: Wonder. Act ii. Sc. 1 



342 MELANCHOL Y — MEM OR Y. 

I would not always reason. The straight path 
"Wearies us with its never-varying lines, 
And we grow melancholy. 

3182 William Cullen Bryant: Conj. of Jupiter and Venus. 
Go, you may call it madness, folly, — 

You shall uot chase my gloom away ; 
There's such a charm in melaucholy, 
I would not, if I could, be gay ! 

3183 Rogers: To . 

MELROSE ABBEY. 
If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, 
Go visit it by the pale moonlight, 
For the gay beams of lightsome day 
Gild, but to flout, the ruius gray. 

3184 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. St. 1. 

MEMORIALS. 

When all these shining leaves are flll'd, 
How will the owner's heart be thrill'd, 
On every opening leaf to find 
Some tribute of affection kind, 
Some token, some memorial dear 
Of each lov'd friend concentred here ; 
And when those friends are far away, 
Still here their semblance to survey, 
And mark the image of each mind 
In living colors well defin'd. 

3185 Bohn : Ms. 

MEMORY — see Absence, Remembrance. 
I cannot but remember such things were, 
That were most precious to me. 

3186 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Remember thee? 

Yea. from the table of my memory 

I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, 

All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, 

That youth and observation copied there. 

3187 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Memory, the daughter of Attention, is the teeming mother 

of Wisdom, 
And safer is he that storeth knowledge, than he that would 
make it for himself. 

3188 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Thinking. 
Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, 

Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. 
3180 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 81. 



MEMORY. 343 

Memory ! thou fond deceiver ! 
Still importunate and vain ; 

To former joys recurring ever, 
And turning all the past to pain. 

3190 Goldsmith: Captivity. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, 

While sorrow's memory is a sorrow still. 

3191 " Bijron : Mar. Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
In that instant, o'er his soul 

Winters of Memory seem'd to roll, 
And gather in that drop of time 
A life of pain, an age of crime. 
O'er him who loves, or hates, or fears, 
Such moment pours the grief of years. 

3192 'Byron : Giaour. Line 261. 

Alas ! that heedlessness of all around 
Bespoke remembrance only too profound. 

3193 Byron : Lara. Canto i. St. 23. 

The eyes of memory will not sleep, 
Its ears are open still, 
And vigils with the past they keep 
Against my feeble will. 

3194 Wliittier : Knight of St. John. 

1 love it — I love it, and who shall dare 
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair ! 

3195 Eliza Cook: The Old Arm- Chair. 

Hail, Memory, hail ! in tlry exhaustless mine 
Prom age to age unnumber'd treasures shine ! 
Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, 
And Place and Time are subject to thy sway! 

319G Rogers : Pleasures of Mem. Pt. ii. Line 429. 

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, 
Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain. 
Awake but one, and lo ! what myriads rise ! 
Each stamps its image as the other flies. 

3197 Rogers : Pleasures of Mem. Pt. i. Line 171. 

Sweet memory, wafted by thy gentle gale, 

Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail, 

To view the fairy-haunts of long-lost hours, 

Blest with far greener shades, far lovelier flowers. % 

3198 Rogers: Pleasures of Mem. Pt. ii. Line 1. 
I remember — I remember 

How my childhood fleeted by, — 
The mirth of its December, 
And the warmth of its July. 

3199 Praed : I Remember, I Remember. 



344 MEMORY— MERCY. 

O memories ! 

past that is ! 

3200 George Eliot : Two Lovers. St. 6. 
They are all gone into the world of light, 

And I alone sit lingering here ! 
Their very memory is fair and bright. 
And my sad thoughts cloth clear. 

3201 Henry Vaughan : TJiey Are All Gone. 

1 have a room whereinto no one enters 
Save I myself alone : 

There sits a blessed memory on a throne, 
There my life centres. 

3202 Christina G. Rossetti : Memory. 
Nothing now is left 

But a majestic memory. 

3203 Longfellow : Three Friends of Mine. Sonnet i. 
The leaves of memory seemed to make 

A mournful rustling in the dark. 

3204 Longfellow : Fire of Drift-vjood. 
When musing on companions gone, 

We doubly feel ourselves alone. 

3205 Scott : Marmion. Canto ii. Introduction. 
"Ah ! memories of sweet summer eves, 

Of moonlit wave and willowy way, 
Of stars and flowers, and dewy leaves, 
And smiles and tones more dear than they ! 

3206 Whittier : Memories. St. 4. 

MERCY — see Benevolence, Bounty, Compassion, Pardon. 
Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so ; 
Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. 

3207 Shaks. : 31. for M. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 

The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 
Become them with one half so good a grace 
As mercy. 

3208 * Shaks. : M. for 31. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Merciful heaven ! 
Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, 
Split'st the unweclgeable and gnarled oak, 
Than the soft myrtle. 

3209 Shaks. : 31. for 31. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
How would you be, 

If He, which is the top of judgment, should 
But judge you as you are? O, think on that ; 
And mercy then will breathe within your lips, 
Like man new made. 

3210 Shaks. : 3L for 31. Act ii Sc. 2. 



MERCY, 345 

0, it is excellent 
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 
^o use it like a giant. 

3211 Shaks. : M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended, 

That, for the fault's love, is the offender friended. 

3212 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Though justice be thy plea, consider this — 

That in the course of justice, none of us 
Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; 
And that same prayer cloth teach us all to render 
The deeds of mercy. 

3213 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1= 
The quality of mercy is not strain 'd; 

It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; 
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes 
The throned monarch better than his crown. 

3214 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
If little faults, proceeding on distemper, 

Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye 
When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested, 
Appear before us? 

3215 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. 

3216 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? 

Draw near them then iu being merciful, 
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. 

3217 Shaks. : Titus And. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Mercy but murthers, pardoning those that kill. 

3218 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
The greatest attribute of Heaven is Mercy ; 

And 'tis the crown of Justice, and the glory, 
Where it may kill with right, to save with pity. 

3219 Beaumont and Fletcher: Lover's Prog. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Great minds erect their never-failing trophies 

On the firm base of mercy; but to triumph 
Over a suppliant, by proud, fortune captiv'd, 
Argues a bastard conquest. 

3220 Massinger : Emperor of the East. Act i. Sc. 2 
Less pleasure take brave minds in battle won, 

Than in restoring such as are undone ; 
Tigers have courage, and the rugged bear, 
But man alone can, whom he conquers, spare. 

3221 Waller : To My Lord Protector 



346 MER C Y — ME TAP II YSICS. 

Think not the good, 
The gentle deeds of mercy thou hast done, 
Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the pris'ner, 
The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow, 
Who daily own the bounty of thy hand, 
Shall cry to heav'n, and pull a blessing on thee. 

3222 Rome: Jane, Shore. Act i. Sc. 2 
Teach me to feel another's woe, 

To hide the fault I see ; 
That mercy I to others show, 
That mercy show to me. 

3223 Pope : Universal Prayer. 

MERIT — see Beauty, Corruption, Honor. 
The force of his own merit makes his way, 
A gift that Heaven gives for him, which buys 
A place next to the king. 

3224 Shoks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Be thou the first true merit to befriend ; 

His praise is lost, who stays till all commend. 

3225 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 274. 
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; 

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. 

322G Pope : R. of the Lock. Canto v. Line 33. 

Amongst the sons of men how few are known 
Who dare be just to merit not their own. 

3227 Churchill: Epis. to Hogarth. 

MERMAID. 

I sat upon a promontory, 
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, 
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, 
That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; 
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, 
To hear the sea-maid's music. 

3228 Shales. : Mid. X. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 2, 
We have travelled upon the waves. 

Wilt travel a time beneath? 
And visit the sea-born in their caves; 
And look on the rainbow-tinted wreath 
Of weeds, beset with pearls, wherewith 
The mermaid binds her long green hair. 

3229 Bailey : Festus. Sc. The Surface. 

METAPHYSICS. 
The mathematics and the metaphysics, 
Pall to them as you find your stomach serves you. 

3230 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act i. Sc. 1 



METRE — MIDNIGHT. 347 

METRE— see Poetry. 
These equal syllables alone require, 
Though oft the ear the opeu vowels tire ; 
While expletives their feeble aid do join, 
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. 

3231 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 144 

MIDDAY. 

sweet, delusive Noon, 
Which the morning climbs to find; 
moment sped too soon, 
And morning left behind. 

3232 Helen Hunt: Noon. 

MIDNIGHT — see Night. 

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve : — 
Lovers to bed ; 'tis almost fairy time. 

3233 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. 
'Tis now the very witching time of night ; 

When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out 
Contagion to this world. 

3234 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
'Tis midnight : — on the mountains brown 

The cold round moon shines deeply down ; 
Blue roll the waters, blue the sky 
Spreads like an ocean hung on high, 
Bespangled with those isles of light, 
So wildly, spiritually bright. 

3235 Byron : Siege of Corinth. St. 11. 
Midnight brought on the dusky hour 

Friendliest to sleep and silence. 

3236 Milton : Far. Lost. Bk. v. Line 667. 
'Tis the witching hour of night, 

Orbed is the moon and bright, 
And the stars they glisten, glisten, 
Seemiug with bright eyes to listen — 
Tor what listen they? 

3237 Keats : A Prophecy. 
It is the noon of night, 

And the world's Great Light 

Gone out, she widow-like doth carry her: 

The moon hath veiled her face, 

Nor looks on that dread place 

Where He lieth dead in sealed sepulchre ; 

And heaven and hades, emptied, lend 

Their flocking multitudes to watch and wait the end. 

3238 Jean Ingelow : Song for Night of Christ's Resurrection. 
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil 

O'er books consumed the midnight oil? 

3239 Gay: Fables. Introduction. 



348 MIDNIGHT— MIND. 

"lis midnight now. The bent .and broken moon, 
Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, 
Hangs silent on the purple walls of heaven. 
3210 Joaquin Miller : Ina. Sc. 2. 

The old clock of the town 
Strikes night's last hour. The morning's crown 
Touches the silence. 

3241 Mary Clemmer : Good-Night. 

MILITIA — see Soldiers. 

Raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; 
Mouths without hands : maintained at vast expense, 
In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; 
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, 
And ever, but in times of need, at hand. 

3242 Dryden : Gymon and Iphigenia. Line 400. 

MILTON. 
Three Poets, in three distant ages born, 
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. 
The first, in loftiness of thought surpass'd ; 
The next, in majesty; in both, the last. 
The force of nature could no further go ; 
To make a third, she join'd the former two. 

3243 Dryden : Lines under Milton's Picture. 
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, 

And ages ere the Mautuau swan was heard ; 
To carry nature lengths unknown before, 
To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more. 

3244 Gowper: Table Talk. Line 557. 

MIND— see Apparel, Consolation, Thought. 
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, 
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. 

3245 Spenser : Faerie Queene. Bk. vi. Canto ix. St. 30. 
The mind is its own place, and in itself 

Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. 

3246 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 254. 
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. 

3247 Robert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 3. 
Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. 

3248 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 104. 
Constant attention wears the active mind, 

Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind. 

3249 Ghurchill : Epis. to Hogarth. Line 647. 
The first sure symptom of a mind in health, 

Is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home. 

3250 Young: Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 929. 



MIND — MIRTH. 349 

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure 
from ideas. 

3251 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Ideas. 
For just experience tells, in ev'ry soil, 

That those who think must govern those that toil ; 
And all that Freedom's highest aims can reach 
Is but to lay proportion'd loads on each. 

3252 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 371. 
The mind cloth shape itself to its own wants, 

And can bear all things. 

3253 Joanna Baillie : Rayner. Act v. Sc, 2, 

MIRACLES. 
What is thy thought? There is no miracle? 
There is a great one, which thou hast not read, 
And never shalt escape. Thyself, man, 
Thou art the miracle. Ay, thou thyself, 
Being in the world and of the world, thyself, 
Hast breathed in breath from Him that made the world. 
Thou art thy Father's copy of Himself, — 
Thou art thy Father's Miracle. 

3254 jean Ingelow. Story of Doom. Bk. vii. Line 228. 
Man is the miracle in nature. God 

Is the one miracle to man. Behold, 

" There is a God," thou saj^est. Thou sayest well : 

In that thou sayest all. To Be is more 

Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought, 

Or reigned, or rested. 

3255 Jean Ingelow : Story of Doom. Bk. vii. Line 271. 

MIRTH — see Care, Character, Cheerfulness. 
A merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth, 
I never spent an hour's talk withal : 
His eye begets occasion for his wit ; 
For every object that the one doth catch, 
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest. 

3256 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
More merry tears 

The passion of loud laughter never shed. 

3257 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. 
I had rather have a fool to make me merry, 

Than experience to make me sad. 

3258 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
'Tis ever common, 

That men are merriest when they are from home. 

3259 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Sc. 2. 



550 MIRTH —MISERS. 

And if you can be merry then, I'll say 
A man may weep upon his wedding-day. 

3260 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Prologue 
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, 

And Laughter holdiug both his sides. 

3261 Milton: L 'Allegro. Line 31. 
Come, thou Goddess fair and free, 

In heav'n yclept Euphrosyne, 
And by men, heart-easing Mirth. 

3262 Milton : L' Allegro. Line 11. 
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee 

Jest and youthful jollity, 

Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, 

Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles. 

3263 Milton : L' Allegro. Line 25. 
Come, and trip it as you go, 

On the light fantastic toe. 

3264 Milton : L' Allegro. Line 33. 
These delights, if thou canst give, 

Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 

3265 Milton : L' Allegro. Line 151. 
And yet, methinks, the older that one grows, 

Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter 
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after. 

3266 Byron : Beppo. St. 79. 

MISCHIEF. 

O, mischief! thou art swift 
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men ! 

3267 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act v. Sc. 1. 
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, 

Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 

3268 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 
When to mischief mortals bend their will, 

How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! 

3269 Pope : B. of the Lock. Canto iii. St. 125. 

MISERS. 
Why call the miser miserable? as 
I said before : the frugal life is his, 
Which in a saint or cynic ever was 
The theme of praise : a hermit would not miss 
Canonization for the self-same cause — 
And wherefore blame gaunt wealth's austerities ! 
Because, you'll say, nought calls for such a trial ; 
Then there's more merit in his self-denial. 

3270 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xii. St. 7, 



MISERS— MOB. 351 

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets ; 
But gold that's put to use more gold begets. 

3271 Shales. : Venus and A. Line 767. 

'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ 
To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy. 

8272 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iv. Line 1. 

MISERY — see Adversity. 
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. 

3273 Shaks. : Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Famine is in thy cheeks, 

Need and oppression starveth in thiue eyes, 
Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back ; 
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. 

3274 Shaks.: Bom. and Jul. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Misery is trodden on by many ; 

And, being low, never relieved by any. 

3275 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 707. 

MISFORTUNE — see Sorrow. 

One woe doth tread upon another's heel, 
So fast they follow. 

3276 Shaks. : Hamlet Act iv. Sc. 7. 
Nothing is a misery, 

Unless our weakness apprehend it so : 
We cannot be more faithful to ourselves, 
In anything that's manly, than to make 
Ill-fortune as contemptible to us 
As it makes us to others. 

3277 Beaumont & Fletcher : Hon. Man's For. Acti. Sc. 1. 
Alas ! misfortunes travel in a train, 

And oft in life form one perpetual chain ; 
Lear buries fear, and ills on ills attend, 
Till life and sorrow meet one common end. 

3278 Young : Force of Beligion. Bk. i. Line 225. 
One more Unfortunate 

Weary of breath, 
llashry importunate, 
Gone to her death. 

3279 Hood : Bridge of Sighs. 

MISTRUST — see Candor, Doubt. 

By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust 

Ensuing danger ; as by proof we see 

The waters swell before a boisterous storm. 

3280 Shaks. : Richard III. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
MOB — see People, Populace, Rebellion. 

All upstarts, insolent in place. 
Eemind us of their vulgar race. 

3281 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 24. 



352 MOB. 

Kings, queens, lords, ladies, knights, and damsels gent, 
Were heaped together with the vulgar sort, 
And mingled with the raskall rabblement, 
Without respect of person or of port. 

3282 Spenser : Faerie Queene. Bk. iii. Canto xi. St. 46. 

You have many enemies that know not 
Why they are so, but, like to village curs, 
Bark when their fellows do. 

3283 Shahs. : Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

What would you have, you. curs, 
That like nor peace, nor war? the one affrights you, 
The other makes you proud. He that trusts to you, 
Where he should find you lions, finds you hares ; 
Where foxes, geese : you are.no surer, no, 
Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, 
Or hailstone in the sun. 

3284 Shales. : Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. L 

They praise, and they admire they know not what, 
And know not whom, but as one leads the other; 
And what delight to be by such extoll'd, 
To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, 
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise? 

3285 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. iii. Line 52. 

For as a fly that goes to bed, 
Eests with his tail above his head, 
So, in this mongrel state of ours, 
The rabble are the supreme powers. 

328G Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 1609. 

The rabble all alive, 
From tippling benches, cellars, stalls, and sties, 
Swarm in the streets. 

3287 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 704. 

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal 
Huzzas each turn of Fortune's wheel, 
And loudest shouts when lowest lie 
Exalted worth and station high. 

3288 Scott : Rokeby. Canto vi. St. 26. 

Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, 
Fantastic, fickle, fierce and vain ! 
Vain as the leaf upon the stream, 
And fickle as a changeful dream ; 
Fantastic as a woman's mood, 
And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. 
Thou many-headed monster-thing, 
O who would wish to be thy king ! 

3289 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto v. St. 30. 



MOB — MONEY. 353 

'Tis ever thus : indulgence spoils the base ; 
Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, 
Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh 
When morning shines upon it. 

3290 Joanna Baillie : Basil. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

MOCKING-BIRD. 
Winged mimic of the woods ! thou motley fool ! 
Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe? 

3291 Richard Henry Wilde: Sonnet. To the Mocking-Bird. 
MODESTY — see Beauty, Blushing-, Virtue. 

It is the witness still of excellency, 

To put a strange face on his own perfection. 

3292 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Her looks do argue her replete with modesty. 

3293 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor, 

Content to dwell in decencies for ever. 

3294 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 163. 
Immodest words admit of no defence, 

For want of decency is want of sense. 

3295 Roscommon: Essay on Translated Verse. Line 113. 
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, 

Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. 

3296 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 329. 

MONEY — see Avarice, Corruption, Gold, Income, Love, 
Riches. 
If money go before, .all wavs do lie open. 

3297 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
O, what a world of vile, ill-favored faults 

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year ! 

3298 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Their love 
Lies in their purses ; and whoso empties them, 
By so much fills their hearts with deacllv hate. 

3299 Shaks. : Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
This yellow slave 

Will knit and break religions ; bless the accurs'd ; 
Make the hoar leprosy aclor'cl ; place thieves, 
And give them title, knee, and approbation, 
With senators on the bench. 

3300 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Tho' love be all the world's pretence, 

Monev's the mythologic sense. 

3301 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 443. 
For what is worth in anything, 

But so much money as 'twill bring? 

3302 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 465. 



854 MONEY. 

Lord! what an am'rous thing is want! 
How debts and mortgages enchant ! 
What graces must that lady have, 
Tli at can from executions save ! 
What charms, that can reverse extent, 
And null decree aucl exigent ! 
What magical attracts and graces, 
That can redeem from scire facias. 

3303 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1031. 

'Tis true we've mouey, th' only power 
That all mankind falls down before. 

3304 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 1327. 
Get money ; still, get money, boy ; 

No matter by what means. 

3305 Ben Jonson : Every Man in His H. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

That I might live alone once with my gold ! 
O, 'tis a sweet companion ! kind and true : 
A man may trust it when his father cheats him, 
Brother, or friend, or wife. wondrous pelf! 
That which makes all men false, is true itself. 

3306 Ben Jonson : Case is Altered. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; 
If not, by any means get wealth and place. 

3307 Pope : Satire iii. Line 103. 

Trade it may help, society extend, 

But lures the pirate, and corrupts the friend : 

It raises armies in a nation's aid, 

But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd. 

3308 Pope : Moral Essays : Epis. iii. Line 29. 

Blest paper credit ! last and best supply ! 
That lends corruption lighter wings to fly ! — 
Gold imp'd by thee can compass hardest things, 
Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings: 
A single leaf shall waft an army o'er, 
Or ship off senates to a distant shore : 
A leaf, like Sibyl's, scatter to and fro 
Our fates and fortunes, as the winds shall blow. 

3309 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 39. 

How melancholy are my poor breeches ; not one chink ! 

3310 Farquhar : Twin-Bivals. Act. i. Sc. 1. 
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, 

But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. 

3311 Byron: Don Juan. Canto x. St. 79 
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome 

When no force else can get the masterdom. 

3312 Herrick : Aph. Money Gets the Mastery, 



MONTHS — MO ON. 355 

MONTHS. 
Thirty dayes hath Xouember, 
Aprill, June, and September, 
February hath xxviii alone, 
And all the rest have xxxi. 

3313 Bichard Grafton: Chronicles of England (1590). 
Thirty clays hath September, 

April. June, and November, 
February has twenty-eight alone, 
All the rest have thirty-one ; 
Excepting leap year, that's the time 
When February's days are twenty-nine. 

3314 The Return from Parnassus. London (1606). 
Thirty days hath September, 

April, Juue, and November, 
All the rest have thirty-one, 
Exceptiug February alone : 
Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, 
Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. 

3315 Common in the New England States. 
Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, 

Thirty days to each affix ; 

Every other thirty-one 

Except the second month alone. 

3316 Common in Chester County, Pa., among the Friends. 

MONUMENT. 

Where London's column, pointing at the skies 
Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies. 

3317 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 339. 
The mossy marbles rest 

On the lips that he has prest 
In their bloom ; 

And the names he loved to hear 
Have been carved for many a year 
On the tomb. 

3318 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Last Leaf . 

MOON — see Honeymoon, Night. 

The chariest maid is prodigal enough, 
If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 

3319 Shaks..- Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Now glow'd the firmament 

With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led 
The starry host, rode brightest, till the Moon, 
Rising in clouded majesty, at length, 
Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, 
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 

3320 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 604. 



356 MOON. 

The Queen of night, whose large command 

Rules all the sea, and half the land, 

And over moist and crazy brains, 

In high spring-tides, at midnight reigns, 

Was now declining to the west, 

To go to bed, and take her rest. 

3321 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1321. 
Soon as the evening shades prevail, 

The moon takes up the wondrous tale, 

And nightly to the listening earth 

Repeats the story of her birth ; 

Whilst all the stars that round her burn, 

And all the planets in their turn 

Confirm the tidings as they roll, 

And spread the truth from pole to pole. 

3322 Addison : Spectator. No. 465. Ode. 
Still and pale 

Thou mo vest in thy silver veil, 
Queen of the night ! the filmy shroud 
Of many a mild, transparent cloud 
Hides, yet adorns thee. 

3323 Praed : The County Ball. 
So when the sun's broad beam has tired the sight, 

All mild ascends the moon's more sober light; 
Serene in virgin modesty she shines, 
And, unobserved, the glaring orb declines. 

3324 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 253. 
Meanwhile the moon, 

Full orb'cl, and breaking through the scatter'd clouds, 
Shows her broad visage in the crimsoned east, 
Turn'd to the sun, directs her spotted disk, 
Where mountains rise, umbrageous dales descend, 
And caverns deep, as optic tube descries 
A smaller earth, gives us his blaze again, 
Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day. 

3325 Thomson : Seasons. Autumn. Line 985. 
The devil's in the moon for mischief; they 

AVho call'd her chaste, methinks, began too soon 

Their nomenclature : there is not a day, 

The longest, not the twenty-first of June, 

Sees half the business in a wicked way 

On which three single hours of moonshine smile — 

And then she looks so modest all the while. 

3326 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 113. 
The silver light, which, hallowing tree and tower, 

Sheds beauty and deep softness o'er the whole, 
Breathes also to the heart, and o'er it throws 
A loving languor which is not repose. 

3327 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 114 



MOON, 357 

The Moon arose ; she shone upon the lake, 
Which lay one smooth expanse of silver light ; 
She shone upon the hills and rocks, and cast 
Upon their hollows and their hidden glens 
A blacker depth of shade. 

3328 Southey : Madoc. Pt. ii. The Close of the Century. 
Then the moon, in all her pride, 

Like a spirit glorified, 

Filled and overflowed the night 

With revelations of her light. 

3329 Longfellow : Daylight and Moonlight. St. 4. 
The cloudless moon 

Eoof s the whole city as with tiles of silver. 

3330 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. i. 5. 
See yonder fire ! It is the moon 

Slow rising o'er the eastern hill. 

It glimmers on the forest tips, 

And through the dewy foliage drips 

In little rivulets of light, 

And makes the heart in love with night. 

3331 Longfellow : Christns. Golden Legend. Pt. v. 
Up from the dark the moon begins to creep ; 

And now a pallid, haggard face lifts she 
Above the water-line. 

3332 T. B. Aldrich: Moonrise at Sea. 
Pale through the azure expanse of the sky the moon was 

ascending ; 
Like intangible snow its breath of silvery vapor 
Softly fell through the fields of the air. 

3333 H. H. Boyesen : Calpurnia. Pt. iii. 
She walks in lonely triumph through the night. 

3334 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama. Sc. 9. 
The moon shines white and silent 

On the mist, which, like a tide 
Of some enchanted ocean, 
O'er the wide marsh doth glide, 
Spreading its ghost-like billows 
Silently far and wide. 

3335 James Russell Lowell : Midnight. 
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon 

From the slow opening curtains of the clouds ; 

Walking in beauty to her midnight throne ! 

The stars are veil'cl in light : the ocean-floods, 

And the ten thousand streams, the boundless woods, 

The trackless wilderness, the mountain's brow, 

Where winter on eternal pinions broods. 

All height, depth, wildness. grandeur, gloom below, 

Touch'd by thy smile, lone Moon ! in one wide splendor glow. 

3336 George Croly : Diana, 



358 MORALITY- MORNING 

MORALITY. 

I find the doctors and the sages 
Have difter'd in all climes and ages, 
And two in fift} r scarce agree 
On what is pure morality. 

3337 Moore: Morality, 
MORNING — see Dawn, Glow-worm, Sunrise, Twilight. 

See how the morning opes her golden gates, 
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun ! 
How well resembles it the prime of youth, 
Trimm'd like a youuker, prancing to his love. 

3338 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
But. look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 

Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 

3339 Shales. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Full many a glorious morning have I seen 

Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, 
Kissing with golden face the meadows green, 
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy ; 
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride 
With ugly rack on his celestial face, 
And from the forlorn world his visage hide, 
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. 

3340 Shaks. : Sonnet xxxiii. 
Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest, 

From his moist cabinet mounts up on high, 

And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast 

The sun ariseth in his majesty ; 

Who doth the world so gloriously behold, 

That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold. 

3341 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 853. 
Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, 

With charm of earliest birds. 

3342 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 641. 
Xow Morn, her ros^y steps in th' eastern clime 
Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl. 

3343 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 1. 
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting 

by 

As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps the cool 
clear sky. 

3344 William Cullen Bryant: TJie Strange Lady. 
The sun had long since, in the lap 

Of Thetis, taken out his nap, 
And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn 
From black to red began to turn. 

3345 Butler: HwJ.ibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 29- 



MORNING. 359 

Mornings are m} r steries ; the first world's youth, 
Man's resurrection, and the future's bud 
Shroud in their births. 

3346 Henry Vaughan: Bides and Lessons. 
But uow the clouds in airy tumult fly ; 

The sun, emerging, opes an azure sky ; 

A fresher green the smiling leaves display, 

And glittering as they tremble, cheer the day. 

3347 Parnell: Hermit. Line 117. 
Now flaming up the heavens, the potent sun 

Melts into limpid air the high-raised clouds, 
And morning fogs that hovered round the hills 
In party-color'd bands, till wide unveil'd 
The face of Nature shines, from where earth seems 
Far-stretch'd around to meet the bending sphere. 

3348 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 200. 
Mighty Nature bounds as from her birth. 

The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth ; 
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, 
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. 

3349 Byron: Lara. Canto ii. St. 1. 
Night wanes — the vapors round the mountains curl'd 
Melt into morn, and light awakes the world. 

3350 Byron: Lara. Canto ii. St. 1. 
The morn is up again, the dewy morn, 

With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, 
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, 
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — 
And glowing into day. 

3351 * Byron : Oh. Harold. Canto iii. St. 98. 
Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, 

Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales 

The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, 

Kisses the blushing leaf. 

3352 Longfellow: Autumn. 
Day! 

Taster and more fast, 

O'er night's brim, day boils at last; 

Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim 

"Where spurting and suppress'd it lay — 

Tor not a froth-flake touched the rim 

Of yonder gap in the solid gray 

Of the eastern cloud, an hour away ; 

But forth one wavelet, then another, curled, 

Till the whole sunrise, not to be supprest, 

Rose, reddened, and its seething breast 

Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world. 

3353 Robert Browning : Pippa Passes. Sc. 1. 



360 MORNING — MOR TALIT Y. 

The moon is carried off in purple fire : 
Day breaks at last. 

3354 Robert Browning: Return of the Druses. Act i. 
MORTALITY— see "Life. 

All, that in this world is great or gay. 
Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay. 

3355 Spenser: Bid us of Time. Line ."3.".. 
'Tis but an hour ago, since it was nine ; 

And, after one hour more, 'twill be eleven ; 
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot. 

3356 Shaks. ; As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
What surety of the world, what hope, what stay, 

When this was now a king, and now is clay ! 

3357 Shaks. : King John. Aet v. Sc. 7. 
Who breathes must suffer; and who thinks, must mourn; 
And he alone is bless'd, who ne'er was born. 

3358 Prior : Solomon. Bk. iii. Line 240. 
To contemplation's sober eye, 

Such is the race of man ; 

And they that creep, and they that fly, 

Shall end where they began, 

Alike the busy and the gay, 

But flutter through life's little clay. 

3359 • Gray : Ode. On the Spring. St. 4. 
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, 

They rise, they break, and to that sea return. 

3360 Pope: Essaij on Man. Epis. iii. Line 19. 
All men think all men mortal but themselves. 

3361 Young : Night Thoughts. ^ T ight i. Line 424. 
'Tis a stern and a startling thing to think 

How often mortality stands on the brink 
Of its grave without any misgiving : 
And yet in this slippery world of strife, 
In the stir of humau bustle so rife, 
There are daily sounds to tell us that Life 
Is dying, and Death is living ! 

3362 Hood : Jliss Kilmansegg : Her Death. 
All that's bright must fade — 

The brightest still the fleetest; 
All that's sweet was made 
But to be lost when sweetest. 

33G3 Moore : All That's Bright, etc. 

There is no flock, however watched and tended, 
But one dead lamb is there ! 
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, 
But has one vacant chair. 

3364 Longfelloiv: Resignation. 






MOTHER — MOUNTAINS. 361 

MOTHER — see Affection, Children, Parents. 
There is a sight all hearts beguiling — 
A youthful mother to her iufant smiling, 
Who, with spread arms and dancing feet, 
And cooing voice, returns its answer sweet. 

3365 Joanna Baillie : Legend of Lady Griseld Baillie. St. 32. 
A mother's love — how sweet the name ! 

What is a mother's love? 

— A noble, pure and tender flame, 

Enkindled from above, 

To bless a heart of earthly mould ; 

The warmest love that can grow cold ; 

This is a mother's love. 

3366 James Montgomery : A Mother 's Love. 
"Where yet was ever found a mother, 

Who'd give her booby for another. 

3367 Gay: Fables.. Pt. i. Fable 3. 
A woman's love 

Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, 
And by its weakness overcomes. 

3368 Jas. Russell Lowell : Legend of Brittany. Pt. ii. St. 43, 
Youth fades ; love droops ; the leaves of friendship fall : 

A mother's secret hope outlives them all. 

3369 Oliver Wendell Holmes : A Mother's Secret. 
Happy he 

With such a mother ! faith in womankind 
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high 
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, 
He shall not blind his soul with clay. 

3370 Tennyson : Tlie Princess. Canto vii. 

MOTIVES. 

I am in this earthly world ; where, to do harm, 
Is often laudable; to do good, sometime, 
Accounted dangerous folly. 

3371 * Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 2 

MOUNTAINS. 

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives 
First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves 
The world ; and, vainly favored, it repays 
The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze 
By no change of its large calm front of snow. 

*3372 Robert Browning : Rudel To The Lady of Tripoli 
Lands, intersected by a narrow frith. 
Abhor each other. Mountains interpos'd 
Make enemies of nations, who had else, 
Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 

3373 Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 16. 



362 MOUNTAINS — MOURNING. 

Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines ! 

In the soft light of these serenest skies ; 

From the broad highland region, black with pines, 

Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise, 

Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold 

In rosy flushes on the virgin gold. 

3374 William Cullen Bryant : To the Apennines. 
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise ! 

3375 Tope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 32. 
Above me are the Alps, 

The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls 

Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, 

And thron'd Eternity in icy halls 

Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls 

The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! 

All that expands the spirit, yet appals, 

Gather around these summits, as to show 

How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. 

3376 Byron: Gh. Harold. Canto iii. St. 02. 
Mountains have fallen, 

■Leaving a gap in the clouds, and with the shock 
Eocking their Alpine brethren ; filling up 
•The ripe green valleys with destruction's splinters ; 
Damming the rivers with a sudden dash, 
Which crush'd the waters into mist, and made 
Their fountains find another channel. 

3377 Byron : Manfred. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains : 

They crown'd him long ago 

On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, 

With a cliadem of snow, 

Around his waist are forests brac'd, 

The avalanche in his hand. 

3378 Byron: Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1. 
He who first met the Highland's swelling blue, 

Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue ; 
Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face, 
And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace. 

3379 Byron : Island. Canto ii. St. 12. 
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, 

But winter lingering chills the lap of May ; 
No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, 
But meteors glare, and stormv glooms invest, 

3380 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 171. 

MOUBNING-^c' Funeral, "Widows. 
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead; excessive 
grief the enemy to the living. 

3381 Shaks. : AIVs IVell. Act i. Sc. 1 



MO URNING — MURDER. 368 

Do not, for ever, with thy veiled lids 

Seek for thy noble father in the dust; 

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives, must die, 

Passing through nature to eternity. 

3382 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
TVe must all die ! 

All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, 

Nor how, so we die well : and can that man that does so 

Need lamentation for him? 

3383 Beaumont and Fletcher : Valentinian. Act iv. Sc. 4 

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'cl round, 
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd? 
No : the dead know it not, nor profit gain ; 
It only serves to prove the living vain. 

3381- Gay: Trivia. Bk. iii. Line 231. 

'Tis impious in a good man to be sad. 

3385 Young : Night TJwughts. Night iv. Line 675. 

O, very gloomy is the House of Woe, 

Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling, 

With all the dark solemnities which show 

That Death is in the dwelling ! 

O, very, very dreary is the room 

Where Love, domestic Love, no longer nestles, 

But smitten by the common stroke of doom, 

The corpse lies on the trestles ! 

3386 Hood : Haunted House. Pt. ii. St. L 

MURDER — see War. 

Safe in a ditch he bides, 
With twenty trenched gashes on his head ; 
The least a death to nature. 

3387 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Murther most foul, as in the best it is; 

But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. 

3388 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Murther, though it have no tongue, will speak 

With most miraculous organ. 

3389 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Foul deeds will rise, 

Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. 

3390 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Is there a crime 

Beneath the roof of heaven, that stains the soul 
Of man, with more infernal hue, than damu'd 
Assassination? 

3391 Cibber: Ccesar in Egypt. Act ii. Sc 2 



364 MURDER — MUSIC. 

Murder may pass unpimish'cl for a time, 
But tardy justice will o'ertake the crime. 

3392 ' Dryden : Cock and Fox. Line 285. 
Blood, though it sleeps a time, yet never dies : 

The gods on murd'rers fix revengeful eyes. 

3393 Chapman : Widow's Tears. Act v. Sc. 1. 
MUSE— see Poetry. 

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend 
The brightest heaven of invention. 

3394 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Chorus. 

MUSIC — see Bells, Discord, Sinking-. 
If music be the food of love, play on, 
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, 
The appetite may sicken, and .so die. 
That strain again ; — it had a dyiug fall ; 
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 
That breathes upon a bank of violets, 
Stealing, and giving odor. 

3395 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Give me some music ; music, moody food 

Of us that trade in love. 

3396 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5. 
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! 

Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music 
Creep in our ears : soft stillness, and the night, 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 

3397 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The man that hath no music in himself, 

Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; 
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus : 
Let no such man be trusted. 

3398 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' sinews ; 

Whose golden touch could soften steel and stones ; 
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans 
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. 

3399 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V Act. iii. Sc. 2. 
When griping griefs the heart doth wound, 

And doleful dumps the mind oppress, 

Then music, with her silver sound, 
With speedy help doth lend redress. 

3400 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
Music's golden tongue 

Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. 

3401 Keats : Eve of St. Agnes. St. 3. 



MUSIC. 365 

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard 
Are sweeter: therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; 
Not to the sensual ear, but, more enclear'd, 
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. 

3402 Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn. 
Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould 

Breathe such divine enchanting- ravishment? 
Sure something holy lodges in that breast, 
And with these raptures moves the vocal air 
To testify his hidden residence. 

3403 Milton : Comus. Line 244. 
Music can noble hints impart, 

Engender fury, kindle love ; 

With unsuspected eloquence can move, 

And manage all the man with secret art. 

3404 Addison: Song for St. Cecilia's Day. 
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast, 

To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak ; 
I've read that things inanimate have mov'd, 
And, as with living souls, have been inform'd, 
By magic numbers and persuasive sound. 

3405 Congreve: Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Music's force can tame the furious beast ; 

Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain 
His rage ; the lion drop his crested mane 
Attentive to the song. 

3406 Prior : Solomon. Bk. ii. Line 67. 
By music, minds an equal temper know, 

Nor swell too high, nor sink too low: 
If in the breast tumultuous joys arise, 
Music her soft, assuasive voice applies ; 
Or. when the soul is press'd with cares, 
Exalts her in enliv'ning airs. 

3407 Pope : Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. St. 2. 
Music the fiercest grief can charm, 

And fate's seA r erest rage disarm. 

Music can soften pain to ease, 

And make despair and madness please ; 

Our joys below it can improve, 

And antedate the bliss above. 

3408 Pope : Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. St. 7. 

Music resembles poetry; in each 

Are nameless graces which no methods teach, 

And which a master-hand alone can reach. 

3409 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 143. 
Some to church repair, 

Not for the doctrine, but the music there. 

3410 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 142. 



366 MUSIC. 

We know they music made 

In heaven, ere man's creation ; 

But when God threw it down to us that strayed, 

It dropt with lamentation, 

And ever since doth its sweetness shade 

With sighs for its first station. 

3411 Jean Ingelow : A Cottage in a Chine. St. 9. 
When Music, heavenly maid, was young, 

While yet in early Greece she sung, 
The Passions oft, to hear her shell, 
Throng'd around her magic cell, 
Exulting, trembling, raging, fainting, 
Possest beyond the Muse's painting. 

3412 Collins: The Passions. Line 1. 
O Music, sphere-descended maid, 

Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid ! 

3413 Collins : The Passions. Liue 95. 
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds, 

And as the mind is pitch'd, the ear is pleas'd 
With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave ; 
Some chord in unison with what we hear 
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. 

3414 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 1. 
There's music in the sighing of a reed ; 

There's music in the gushing of a rill; 
There's music in all things, if men had ears ; 
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres. 

3415 Bijron : Don Juan. Canto xv. St. 5. 
Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto 

Wish'd him five fathom under the Rialto. 

3416 Byron: Beppo. St. 32. 
" This must be the music," said he, " of the spears, 

Por I'm cursed if each note of it doesn't run through one." 

3417 Moore : Fudge Family. Letter v. 
Music ! — ! how faint, how weak, 

Language fades before thy spell ! 

Why should Feeling ever speak, 

When thou canst breathe her soul so well? 

Friendship's balmy words may feign — 

Love's are even more false than they ; 

Oh ! 'tis only music's strain 

Can sweetly soothe, and not betray. 

3418 Moore : Irish Melodies. On Music, 
The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 

Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell. 

And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — pour 

A thousand melodies unheard before. 

3419 Bogers: Human Life. Line 362. 



M tfSl C — M UT ABILITY. 367 

There is a sadness in sweet sound 
That quickens tears. 

8420 T. B. Aldrich: Two Songs from the Persian. 

Music waves eternal wands, — 
Enchantress of the souls of mortals ! 

3421 E. C. Stedman : Pan in Wall Street. St. 10. 
The silent organ loudest chants 

The master's requiem. 

3422 Emerson : Dirge. 
Music (which is earnest of a heaven, 

Seeing we know T emotions strange by it, 
Not else to be revealed) is as a voice, 
A low voice calling fancy, as a friend, 
To the green woods in the gay summer time ; 
And she fills all the way with dancing shapes, 
Which have made painters pale, aucl they go on 
While stars look at them, and winds call to them, 
As they leave life's path for the twilight world 
Where the dead gather. 

3423 Bobert Browning : Pauline. Line 365. 
See to the desk Apollo's sons repair : — 

Swift rides the rosin o'er the horse's hair; 

In unison their various tones to tuue, 

Murmurs the hautboy, growls the hoarse bassoon ; 

In soft vibrations sighs the whispering lute ; 

Twang goes the harpsichord, too-too, the flute ; 

Brays the loud trumpet; squeaks the fiddle sharp ; 

Winds the French-horn ; aud twangs the tingling harp. 

3424 Jas. & Horace Smith : Bejected Addresses. The Tlieatre. 

[Line 512. 
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, 
Expels diseases, softens every pain, 
Subdues the rage of poison and the plague. 

3425 Armstrong: Art of Preserving Health. 

MUTABILITY — see Age, Mortality, Vicissitude. 
Thus, sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; 
And after summer, ever more succeeds 
Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold ; 
So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet. 

3426 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act ii Sc. 4. 
The flower that smiles to-day. 

To-morrow dies ; 
All that we wish to stay, 
Tempts, and then flies : 
What is this world's delight? 
Lightning that mocks the night, 
Brief even, as bright. 

3427 Shelley : Misc. Poems. Mutability- 



368 MYRTLE — NA TURE. 

MYRTLE. 
The myrtle (ensign of supreme command, 
Consigned by Venus to Melissa's hand), 
Not less capricious than a reigning fair, 
Oft favors, oft rejects a lover's prayer, 
In myrtle shades oft sings the happy swain, 
In myrtle shades despairing ghosts complain. 
The myrtle crowns the happy lovers' heads, 
Th' unhappy lovers' graves the myrtle spreads. — 
Oh ! then the meaning of thy gift impart, 
And ease the throbbings of an anxious heart. 
Soon must this bough, as you shall fix its doom, 
Adorn Philander's head, or grace his torn)). 

3428 Dr. Johnson : Written at the request of a Gentleman to 

[whom a Lady had given a Sprig of Myrtle. 

N. 

NAME — see Cottle, Detraction, Fame. 
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, 
By any other name would smell as sweet. 

3429 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Some to the fascination of a name 

Surrender judgment hoodwinked. 

3430 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 101. 
Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, 

The power of grace, the magic of a name? 

3431 Campbell : PL of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 5. 
Oh, never breathe a lost one's name 

To those who call'd that one their own ; 
It only stirs the smouldering flame 
That burns upon a charnel-stone. 

3432 Eliza Cook : Oh, Never Breathe a Dead One's Name. 
NAPLES. 

Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azAire. 

3433 Tup'per: Proverbial Phil. Of Death 
NAPOLEON. 

Where is he, the champion and the child 

Of all that's great or little, wise or wild? 

Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, 

Whose table earth — whose dice were human bones? 

3434 Byron : Age of Bronze. St. 3. 
NARCISSUS. 

Narcissus is the glory of his race ; 

For who does nothing with a better grace? 

3435 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iv. Line 85. 
NATURE — see God. 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 

3436 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



NATURE. 369 

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, 
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms ! 

3437 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 
How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature ! 

3438 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Nature, despairing e'er to make the like, 

Brake suddenly the mould in which 'twas fashion'd. 

3439 Massinger : Parliament of Love. Act v. Sc. 1. 
In contemplation of created things 

By steps we may ascend to God. 

3440 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 511. 
By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, 

Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow; 
Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, 
Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. 

3441 Dryden : Annus Mirabilis. St. 155. 
Hear ye not the hum 

Of mighty workings? 

3442 Keats : Addressed to Hay don. 
How mean the order and perfection sought 

In the best product of the human thought, 
Compare! to the great harmony that reigns 
In what the spirit of the world ordains ! 

3443 Prior : Solomon. Bk. i. Line 508. 
To build, to plant, whatever you intend, 

To rear the column, or the arch to bend, 
To swell the terrace, or to sink the grot, 
In all, let nature never be forgot: 
But treat the goddess like a modest fair, 
Nor overdress, nor leave her wholly bare. 

3444 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iv. Line 47. 
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, 

And catch the manners living as they rise. 

3445 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 13. 
Lo ! the poor Indian — whose untutor'd mind 

Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; 
His soul proud science never taught to stray 
Eav as the solar walk or milky way ; 
Yet gimple nature to his hope has given, 
Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n. 

344G Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 99. 

First follow nature, and your judgment frame 
By hei just standard, which is still the same; 
Unerring nature, still divinely bright, 
One clear, unchanged, and universal light, 
Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, 
At once the source, and end. and test of art. 

3447 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 68. 



370 NATURE. 

The green earth sends her incense up 
From many a mountain shrine; 
From folded leaf and dewy cup 
She pours her sacred wine. 

3448 Whittier: The Tent on the Beach. Abraham Davenport 

Nature ever yields reward 

To him who seeks, and loves her best. 

3449 Barry Cornwall : Above and Below. 

Like two cathedral towers these stately pines 
Uplift their fretted summits tipped with cones ; 
The arch beneath them is not built with stones, 
Not Art but Nature traced these lovely lines, 
And carved this graceful arabesque of vines ; 
No organ but the wind here sighs and moans, 
No sepulchre conceals a martyr's bones, 
No marble bishop on his tomb reclines. 
Enter ! the pavement, carpeted with leaves, 
Gives back a softened echo to thy tread ! 
Listen ! the choir is singing ; all the birds, 
In leafy galleries beneath the eaves, 
Are singing ! listen, ere the sound be fled, 
And learn there may be worship without words. 
■ 3450 Longfellow: My Cathedral. 

If thou art worn and hard beset 
With sorrows, that thou wouldst forget, 
If thou wouldst read a lesson, that will keep 
Thy heart from fainting, and thy soul from sleep, 
Go to the woods and hills ! No tears 
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears. 

3451 Longfelloio : Sunrise on the Hills. 

Nature paints not 
In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven 
With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds 
And flying vapors. 

3452 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 4. 

O Nature, gracious mother of us all, 
Within thy bosom myriad secrets lie 
Which thou surrenclerest to the patient eye 
That seeks and waits. 

3453 Margaret J. Preston : The Question. 

O Nature, how fair is thy face, 
And how light is thy heart, and how friendless thy grace ! 

3454 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. i. Canto v. St. 28. 

For wheresoe'er I looked, the while, 
Was nature's everlasting smile.' 

3455 William Cullen Bryant : Song. 



NATURE. 371 

"When thoughts 
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight 
Over thy spirit, and sad images 
Of the stern agony, aud shroud, and pall, 
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, 
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart ; — 
Go forth, under the open sky, and list 
To Nature's teaching. 

3456 William Cullen Bryant : Thanatopsis. 

To him who in the love of Nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
A various language ; for his gayer hours 
She has a voice of gladness, aud a smile 
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides 
Into his darker musings, with a mild 
And healiug sympathy, that steals away 
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. 

3457 William Cullen Bryant : Thanatopsis. 

Not long can Nature satisfy the mind, 

Nor outward fancies feed its inner flame ; 

"We feel a growing want we cannot name, 

And long for something sweet, but undefined. 

The wants of Beauty other wants create, 

Which overflow on others, soon or late ; 

For all that worship thee must ease the heart, 

By Love, or Song, or Art. 

Divinest Melancholy walks with thee, 

And Music with her sister Poesy ; 

But on thy breast Love lies, immortal child, 

Begot of thine own longings, deep aud wild. 

3458 B. H. Stoddard : Hymn to the Beautiful, 

He who studies nature's laws, 

Prom certain truth his maxims draws. 

3459 Gay: Fables. Introduction. 

Nature ! great parent ! whose unceasing hand 
Rolls round the seasons of the changeful year ; 
Hoav mighty, how majestic are thy works ! 
With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul 
That sees astonish'd ! and astonish'd sings ! 

3460 TJiomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 107, 
Who can paint 

Like Nature? Can Imagination boast, 
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? 
Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, 
And lose them in each other, as appears 
In every bud that blows? 

3461 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 428 



372 NATURE. 

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor; 
Who lives to fancy never can be rich. 

3462 Young: Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 530. 

Man's rich with little, were his judgment true ; 
Nature is frugal, and her wants are few. 

3463 Young: Love of Fume Satire v. Line 167. 

Mark the matchless workings of the power 
That shuts within its seed the future flower : 
Bids these in elegance of form excel. 
In color these, and those delight the smell; 
Sends Nature forth, the daughter of the skies. 
To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes. 

3464 Coicper: Retirement. Line 791. 

Lovely indeed the mimic works of art, 
But Nature's works far lovelier. 

3465 Coicper: Task. Bk. i. Line 420. 

Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature's hand ; 

Nor was perfection made for man below. 

Yet all her schemes with nicest art are plann'd, 

Good counteracting ill, and gladness woe. 

With gold and gems if Chilian mountains glow, 

If bleak and barren Scotia's hills arise, 

There plague and poison, lust and rapine grow ; 

Here peaceful are the vales, and pure the skies, 

And freedom fires the soul, and sparkles in the eyes. 

3466 Beattie : Minstrel. Bk. i. St. 6. 

Some kinder casuists are pleased to say, 

In nameless print, that I have no devotion ; 

But set those persons down with me to pray, 

And you shall see who has the properest notion 

Of getting into heaven the shortest way ; 

My altars are the mountains and the ocean, 

Earth, air, stars, — all that spring from the great Whole, 

Who hath produced, and will receive the soul. 

3467 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. Line 104. 

The rain comes when the wind calls ; 
The river knows the way to the sea ; 
Without a pilot it runs and falls, 
Blessing all lands with its charity ; 
The sea tosses and foams to find 
Its way up to the cloud and wind ; 
The shadow sits close to the flying ball ; 
The elate fails not on the palm-tree tall ; 

3468 Emerson : Woodnotes. Pt. ii. Line 265. 



NA TUBE — NETTLE. 3 73 

I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, 
Singing at dawn on the alder bough ; 
I brought him home, in his nest, at even ; 
He sings the song, but it cheers not now, 
For I did not bring home the river and sky ; — 
He sang to my ear, — they sang to my eye. 

3469 Emerson: Each and All. 

NECESSITY. 

Let Hercules himself do what he may, 

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 

3470 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The art of our necessities is strange, 

That can make vile things precious. 

3471 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
He must needs go that the devil drives. 

3472 Shaks. : AIVs Well. Act i. Sc. 3. 
All places, that the eye of heaven visits, 

Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : 
Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; 
There is no virtue like necessity. 

3473 Shaks. : Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Spirit of nature ! all-sufficing power, 

Necessity ! thou mother of the world ! 

3474 ' Shelley: Queen Mab. Pt. vi. 
So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, 

The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. 

3475 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 393. 
'Tis necessity 

To which the gods must yield ; and I obey, 
Till I redeem it by some glorious way. 

3476 Beaumont and Fletcher : False One. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Nature means Necessity. 

3477 Bailey: Festus. Dedication. 
Soul of the world, divine Necessity, 

Servant of God, and master of all things. 

3478 Bailey : Festus. Sc. The Sun. 

NETTLE. 

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, 

And it stings you for your pains ; 

Grasp it like a man of mettle, 

And it soft as silk remains. 

'Tis the same with common natures, 

Use 'em kindly, they rebel, 

But be rough as nutmeg-graters, 

And the rogues obey you well. 

3479 Aaron Hill : Written on a Window in Scotland. 



3 74 NE WS — NE WSPA PE RS. 

NEWS, NEWSPAPERS — see Press, Reporters, Rumor. 
The first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remember'd kuolling a departing friend. 

3480 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. L 
Though it be honest, it is never good 

To bring bad news : give to a gracious message 
An host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell 
Themselves, when they be felt. 

3481 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5. 
Only a newspaper ! Quick read, quick lost, 

Who sums the treasure that it carries hence? 
Torn, trampled under feet, who counts thy cost, 
Star-eyed Intelligence. 

3482 Mary Clemmer : TJie Journalist. St. 9. 
With news the time's with labor, aud throes forth 

Each minute some. 

3483 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 7. 
Evil news rides post, while good news baits. 

3484 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 1538. 
He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, 

Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief 
Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some, 
To him indifferent whether grief or joy. 

3485 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 12 
This folio of four pages, happy work! 

Which not even critics criticise ; that holds 
Inquisitive attention, while I read 
Fast bound in chains of silence, which the fair, 
Though eloquent themselves, yet fear to break. 

3486 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 50. 
Turn to the press — its teeming sheets survey, 

Big with the wonders of each passing day; 

Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires and wrecks, 

Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks. 

3487 Sprague : Curiosity 
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun, 

Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; 
The blooming daughter throws her needle by. 
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh ; 
While the grave mother puts her glasses on, 
And gives a tear to some old crony gone. 
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down, 
To know what last new folly fills the town ; 
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, 
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. 

3488 Sprague; Curiosity. 



NEWS — NEW YEAR. 375 

The word explains itself without the muse, 
And the four letters tell whence cometh news : 
From North, East, West, and South, solutions made ; 
Each quarter gives account of war and trade. 

3489 Author Unknown. 
NEWTON. 

Superior beings, when of late they saw 
A mortal raau unfold all nature's law, 
Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, 
And show'cl a Newton, as we shew an ape. 

3490 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 31. 
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night : 

God said, " Let Newton be ! " and all was light. 

3491 Pope: Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton. 
Have ye not listened while he bound the suns 

And planets to their spheres? the unequal task 
Of humankind till then. 

3492 Thomson: To Mem. of Sir Isaac Newton. Line 17. 
Newton (that proverb of the mind), alas ! 

Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, 
That he himself felt only " like a youth 
Picking up shells by the great ocean — Truth." 

3493 Byron : Don Juan. Canto vii. St. 5. 

NEW YEAR «- see Holiday. 

Old-year's sorrow, 
Cast off last night, will come again to-morrow — 
Whereas, if thou prove gentle, I shall borrow 
Sufficient strength of thee for new-year's sorrow. 

3494 Robert Browning : Pippa Passes. Sc. 1. 
Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest 

day : 
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' 
the May. 

3495 Tennyson : The May Queen. 
The wave is breaking on the shore, — 

The echo fading from the chime — 
Again the shadow moveth o'er 
The dial-plate of time ! 

3496 Whittier : The New Year. 
Enter upon thy paths, O year! 

Thy paths, which all who breathe must tread, 

Which lead the Living to the Dead, 

I enter; for it is my doom 

To tread thy labyrinthine gloom ; 

To note who round me watch and wait; 

To love a few ; perhaps to hate ; 

And do all duties of my fate. 

3497 Barry Cornwall : The First Day of the Year 



376 NIAGARA — NIGHT. 

NIAGARA. 
Plow on for ever in thy glorious robe 
Of terror and of beauty ; . . . God hath set 
His rainbow on thy forehead ; and the cloud 
Mantles around thy feet. And he doth give 
Thy voice of thunder power to speak of Him 
Eternally, bidding the lip of man 
Keep silence, and upon thy rocky altar pour 
Incense of awe-struck praise. 

3498 Mrs. Sigoumey : Niagara. 



NIGHT — see Bed, Dawn, Evening-, Midnight, Moon, Stars, 
Sunset. 

Dark night, that from the eye his function takes, 
The ear more quick of apprehension makes. 

3499 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. % 

Now the hungry lion roars, 
And the wolf behowls the moon ; 
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, 
All with weary task fordone, 
Now the wasted brands do glow, 
Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud, 
Puts the wretch, that lies in w T oe, 
In remembrance of a shroud. 

3500 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Now o'er the one-half world 
Nature seems dead ; and wicked dreams abuse 
The curtain'cl sleep : witchcraft celebrates 
Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd murther, 
Alarumed by his sentinel, the wolf, 
Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, 
With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design 
Moves like a ghost. 

3501 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. I. 

There's husbandry in heaven ; 
Their candles are all out. 

3502 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

When the searching eye of heaven is hid 
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world, 
Then thieves and robbers range abroad unseen, 
In murthers and in outrage boldly here. 

3503 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

'Tis now the very witching time of night ; 

When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes out 

Contagion to this world. 

3504 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 



NIGHT. 377 

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell ! 
Dim register and notary of shame ! 
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell ! 
Vast, sin-concealing chaos ! nurse of blame ! 
Blind, muffled bawd ! dark harbor for defame! 
Grim cave of death ! whispering conspirator 
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher ! 

3505 Shaks. : R. of Lucres. Line 764. 
When night 

Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. 

3506 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 500. 
The sun was sunk, and after him the star 

Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring 
Twilight upon the earth, short arbiter 
'Twixt day and night, and now from end to end 
Night's hemisphere had veil'd th' horizon round. 

3507 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 48. 
Now began 

Night with her sullen wing to double-shade 

The desert ; fowls in their clay nests were couch'd, 

And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam. 

3508 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. i. Line 499. 
Night is the Sabbath of mankind, 

To rest the body and the mind. 

3509 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1349. 
The diligence of trades and noiseful gain 

And luxury more late, asleep were laid: 
All was the night's ; and in her silent reign 
No sound the rest of nature did invade. 

3510 Dry den : Annus Mirabilis. St. 216. 
The vain young Night 

Trembles o'er her own beauty in the sea. 

3511 Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Sc. 2. 
Night hath made many bards ; she is so lovely. 

For it is beauty maketh poesie, 

As from the dancing eye comes tears of light. 

Night hath made many bards; she is so lovely. 

And they have praised her to her starry face 

So long that she hath blushed and left them, often. 

3512 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Home. 
Awful Night ! 

Ancestral mystery of mysteries. 

3513 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iv. 
Fresh Night, emergent in her clearness, lit 

By the large crescent moon, with Hesperus, 
And those great stars that lead the eager host. 

3514 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk v 



378 NIGHT. 

holy Night ! from thee I learn to bear 
What man has borne before ! 
Thou lay est thy finger on the lips of Care, 
And they complain no more. 

3515 Longfellow: Hymn to the Night. St. 5. 

Darker and darker 
The black shadows fall; 
Sleep and oblivion 
Reign over all. 
351G Longfellow: Curfeu. 

Dear night ! this world's defeat ; 
The stop to busy fools ; care's check and curb ; 
The day of spirits ; my soul's calm retreat 
Which none disturb ! 
Christ's progress and his prayer time ; 
The hours to which high heaven doth chime. 

3517 Henry Vaughan : The Night. 

Now sunk the sun ; the closing hour of day 
Came onward, mantled o'er w T ith sober gray : 
Nature in silence bid the world repose. 

3518 Parnell : Hermit. Line 43. 

. The sun was set; the night came on apace, 
And falling dews bewet around the place ; 
The bat takes airy rounds on leathern wings, 
And the hoarse owl his woful dirges sings. 

3519 Gay: Shepherd's Week. Wednesday. Line 115. 

Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light ; 
And drew behind the cloudy veil of night. 

3520 Pope : Iliad. Bk. viii. Line 615. 

How like a widow in her weeds, the night, 
Amid her glimmering tapers, silent sits ! 
How sorrowful, how desolate, she weeps 
Perpetual dews, and saddens nature's scene. 

3521 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 1978. 
Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man ; 

Man, turning from his God, brings endless night. 

3522 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 2011. 

Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, 
In ray less majesty, now stretches forth 
Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'riug world. 
Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! 
Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds; 
Creation sleeps ! 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse 
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, 
An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. 

3523 Young : Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 18. 



NIGHT — NIGHTINGALE . 379 

This sacred shade, and solitude, what is it? 
'Tis the felt presence of the Deity. 
Few are the faults we flatter when alone. 
Vice sinks in her allurements, is ungilt, 
And looks, like other objects, black by night; 
By night an atheist half -believes a Gocl. 
'3524 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 171. 

Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend ; 
The conscious moon, through every distant age, 
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall 
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. 

3525 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 177. 

All was so still, so soft, in earth and air, 
You scarce would start to meet a spirit there 
Secure that nought of evil could delight 
To walk in such a scene, on such a night ! 

3526 Byron : Lara. Canto i. St. 10. 
The night 

Shows stars and women in a better light. 

3527 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 152. 

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops 
Of the snow-shining mountains. — Beautiful! 
I linger yet with nature, for the night 
Hath been to me a more familiar face 
Than that of man ; and in her starry shade 
Of dim and solitary loveliness, 
I learn'd the language of another world. 

3528 Byron : Manfred. Act iii. Sc. 4, 
How beautiful is night ! 

A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; 

No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, 

Breaks the serene of heaven : 

In full-orb'd glory, yonder Moon divine 

Rolls through the dark blue depths; 

Beneath her steady ray 

The desert-circle spreads, 

Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. 

How beautiful is night ! 

3529 Southey : Thalaba. Bk. i. Line L 

NIGHTINGALE —see Evening. 

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, would be thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 
How many things by season season'd are 
To their right praise, and true perfection ! 

3530 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. L 



880 NIGHTINGALE — NOBILITY. 

Adieu ! adieu ! thy plaintive anthem fades 
Past the near meadows, over the still stream, 
Up the hill-side ; and now 'tis buried deep 
In the next valley-glades ; 
Was it a vision, or a waking dream? 
Fled is that music : — do I wake or sleep? 

3531 Keats : Ode to a Nightingale. 
O herald skylark, stay thy flight 

One moment, for a nightingale 
Floods us with sorrow and delight. 
To-morrow thou shalt hoist the sail ; 
Leave us to-night the nightingale. 

3532 Christina G. Bossetti : Bird Baptures. 

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, 
Most musical, most melancholy ! 

3533 Milton : II Penseroso. Line til. 
O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray 

Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, 
Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill. 

3534 Milton: Sonnet 1. 
To the poplar shade 

Where, all abandon'd to despair, she sings 

Her sorrows through the night ; and on the bough 

Sole-sitting, still, at every dying fall, 

Takes up again her lamentable strain 

Of winding woe; till, wide around, the woods 

Sigh to her song, and with her wail resound. 

3535 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 722. 

NO — see Yes. 

Learn to speak this little word 

In its proper place ; 

Let no timid doubt be heard, 

Cloth'd with sceptic grace ; 

Let thy lips, without disguise, 

Boldly pour it out ; 

Though a thousand dulcet lies 

Keep hovering about. 

For be sure our lives would lose 

Future years of woe, 

If our courage could refuse 

The present hour with " No." 

3536 Eliza Cook: " No!" 

NOBILITY. 
Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. 

3537 Longfellow : Tales of a Wayside Inn. Emma and 

\_Eginhard< 



NOBILITY, 381 

JS r oble souls, through dust and heat, 
Kise from disaster and defeat 
The stronger; 

And conscious still of the divine 
Within them, lie on earth supine 
No longer. 

3538 Longfellow : The Sifting of Peter. St. 7. 
Whene'er a noble deed is wrought, 

Whene'er is spoken a noble thought, 
Our hearts, in glad surprise, 
To higher levels rise. 

3539 Longfelloio : Santa Filomena. St. 1, 
For he who is honest is noble, 

Whatever his fortunes or birth. 

3540 Alice Cary : Nobility. 
Oh, noble soul ! which neither gold, nor love, 

Nor scorn can bend. 

3541 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy. Act iv. Sc. 1= 
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; 

Do noble things, not dream them, all day long: 
And so make life, death, and that vast forever, 
One grand, sweet song. 

3542 Charles Kingsley : A Fareivell. 
Be noble ! and the nobleness that lies 

In other men, sleeping, but never dead, 
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own ; 
Then wilt thou see it gleam in many eyes, 
Then will pure light around thy path be shed, 
And thou wilt nevermore be sad and lone. 

3543 James Russell Lowell : Sonnet iv. 
Shall I uncovered stand, and bend my knee 

To such a shadow of nobility, 
A shred, a remnant? 

3544 Churchill : Independence. Line 277. 
Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, 

When Science' self destroy'd her favorite son! ! 

3545 Byron : English Bards. Line 822. 
Fond man ! though all the heroes of your line 

Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine 
In proud display ; yet take this truth from me — 
Virtue alone is true nobility ! 

3546 Gifford's Juvenal. Satire viii. Line 29. 
Shall we call those noble, who disgrace 

Their lineage, proud of an illustrious race; 
Seek not to shine by borrow'd lights alone, 
But with your father's glories blend your own. 

3547 Gifford's Juvenal. Satire viii. Line 47. 

1 Henry Kirke White. 



382 N OBI LIT Y — NO VEMBER. 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me 
Tis only noble to be good. 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 
And simple faith than Norman blood. 

3548 Tennyson : Lady Clara V. de V. 

NONSENSE — .see Wit. 
As no tricks on the rope bnt those that break, 
Or come most near to breaking of a neck, 
Are worth the sight, so nothing goes for wit 
But nonsense, or the next of all to it ; 
For nonsense being neither false nor true, 
A little wit to anything may screw. 

3549 Butler: On the Abuse of Human Lear ning. Satire 2. 

[Line 183. 
Tor daring nonsense seldom fails to hit, 
Like scattered shot, and pass with some for wit. 

3550 Butler : Mod. Grit. Line 16. 
A little nonsense, now and then, 

Is relished by the wisest men. 

3551 Anonymous. 

NOON-TIME. 

A silence, the brief sabbath of an hour, 
Reigns o'er the fields ; the laborer sits within 
His dwelling ; he has left his steers awhile, 
Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dog 
Sleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade. 
Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws, 
No more sits listening by his den, but steals 
Abroad, in safety, to the clover-field, 
And crops its juicy blossoms. 

3552 William Cxdlen Bryant : Noon. 

NORTH. 

Ask where's the north? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; 

In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, 

At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where. 

3553 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 222. 

NOVELTIES — see Customs, Fashion, Fickleness. 
All with one consent, praise new-born gawds, 
Though they are made and moulded of things past. 

3554 Shaks. : Troll, and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

NOVEMBER — see Months. 
There is no color in the world, 
No lovely tint on hill or plain ; 
The summer's golden sails are furled, 
And sadly falls the autumn rain. 

3555 Celia Thaxter : November. St. 2. 



NOVEMBER. 383 

The melancholy clays are come, the saddest of the year. 
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown 

and sere. 
Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie 

dead : 
They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread; 
The'robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the 

jay. 
And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the 

gloomy day. 

3556 William Cullen Bryant: Death of the Flowers. 

On nry cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered ; 
Children till the groves with the echoes of their glee. 
Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside 

them 
Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree. 

Dreary is the time when the flowers of earth are withered. 

3557 William Cullen Bryant : The Third of November. 

The yellow year is hasting to its close; 
The little birds have almost sung their last, 
Their small notes twitter in the dreary blast — 
That shrill-piped harbinger of early snows ; — 
The patient beauty of the scentless rose, 
Oft with the morn's hoar crystal quaintly glassed, 
Hangs a pale mouruer for the summer past. 
And makes a little summer where it grows ; — 
In the chill sunbeam of the faint brief day 
The dusky waters shudder as they shine; 
The russet leaves obstruct the straggling way 
Of oozy brooks, which no deep banks define. 
And the gaunt woods, in ragged, scant array, 
Wrap their old limbs with sombre ivy-twine. 

3558 Coleridge : November. 

In rattling showers dark November's raiu. 
From every stormy cloud, descends amain. 

3559 Buskin : The Months. 

The wild Xovember comes at last 

Beneath a veil of rain : 

The night wind blows its folds aside, 

Her face is full of pain. 

The latest of her race, she takes 

The Autumn's vacant throne : 

She has but one short moon to live, 

And she must live alone. 

3560 B. H. Stoddard : Xovember. 



384 NO VEMBER — OA THS. 

Fie upon thee, November! thou dost ape 
The airs of thy young sisters ; — thou hast stolen 
The witching smile of May to grace thy lip, 
And April's rare capricious loveliness 
Thou'rt trying to put on ! 

3561 Julia C. B. Dorr: November 

NUN-6'ee Celibacy, Virgins. 
Know of your youth, examine well your blood, 
Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, 
You can endure the livery of a nun ; 
Tor aye to be in shady cloister mewed; 
To live a barren sister all your life, 
Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. 
Thrice blessed they, that master so their blood, 
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage. 

3562 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Love, to her ear, was but a name, 

Combin'cl with vanity and shame ; 

Her hopes, her fears, her joys, were all 

Bounded within the cloister wall. 

3563 Scott : Marmion. Canto ii. St. 3. 



O. 

OAK — see Forest, Trees. 
The monarch oak, the patriarch of trees, 
Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees : 
Three centuries he grows, and three he stays 
Supreme in state ; and in three more decays. 

3564 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2334 
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood ; 

The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. 

3565 Churchill : Gotham. Bk. i. Line 303. 
Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, 

Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, 
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. 

3566 Keats : Hyperion. Bk. i. 

OATHS — .see Lies, Truth, 

'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth ; 
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. 

3567 Shaks. : AIVs Well. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
It is great sin to swear unto a sin ; 

But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath. 

3568 l Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 1. 
To keep that oath were more impiety 

Than Jephtha's, when he sacrific'd his daughter. 

3569 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc 1. 



OATHS. 385 

I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness, 
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy; 
... I have sworn thee fair. 

3570 Shaks. : Sonnet clil 

I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath ; 
Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both. 

3571 Shaks. : Pericles. Act i. Sc. 2. 

The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows ; 
They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd 
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. 

3572 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act v. Sc, 3. 

Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law, 
To keep the good and just in awe, 
But to confine the bad and sinful, 
Like moral cattle, in a pinfold. 

3573 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 197. 

For he that strains too far a vow, 
Will break it, like an o'erbent bow ; 
And he that made, and forc'd it, broke it, 
Not he that for convenience took it. 

3574 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 273. 

He that imposes an oath makes it, 
Not he that for convenience takes it : 
Then how can anj' man be said 
To break an oath he never made. 

3575 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 377. 

Por breaking of an oath and lying. 

Is but a kind of self-denying, 

A saint-like virtue ; and from hence 

Some have broke oaths by Providence, 

Some, to the glory of the Lord, 

Perjur'cl themselves, and broke their word. 

3576 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 133. 

He that makes his soul his surety, 
I think does give the best secur'ty. 

3577 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 203. 

What makes the breaking of all oaths 
A holy duty? — Pood and clothes. 

3578 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto i. Line 1281 

Oaths are but words, and words but wind, 
Too feeble implements to bind. 

3579 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 107. 

Jack was embarrassed — never hero more, 
And as he knew not what to say, he swore. 

3580 Byron : Island. Canto iii St. 5. 



386 OBEDIENCE — OBSER VA TION. 

OBEDIENCE — wt Courtiers. 

Therefore doth Heaven divide 
The state of man in divers functions, 
Setting endeavor in continual motion ; 
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, 
Obedience ; for so work the honey-bees. 

3581 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Let them obey that know not how to rule. 

3582 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 1. 
I shall in all my best obey you, madam. 

3583 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Son of heav'n aud earth, 

Attend : That thou art happy, owe to God ; 
That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, 
That is, to thy obedience ; therein stand. 

3584 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 519. 
My author and disposer, what thou bidd'st, 

Unargued I obey. So God ordains ; 

God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more 

Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. 

3585 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 635. 
Obedience is the Christian's crown. 

3586 Schiller: Fight with the Dragon. St. 24. 

To him who wears the cross, he said, 
The first great law is — To Obey. 

3587 Schiller : Fight with the Dragon. St. 4. 
I know 

My God commands, whose power no power resists. 

3588 Robert Greene: Looking-Glass for Lond. and England. 

OBLIVION. 

Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. 

3589 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. ii. v. Line 108. 
OBSCURITY. 

Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, 
The dark, unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; 
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 

3590 Gray : Elegy. St. 14. 

OBSERVATION. 
To observations which ourselves we make, 
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. 

3591 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 11. 
Let Observation, with extensive view, 

Survey mankind from China to Peru ; 
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, 
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life. 

3592 Dr. Johnson: Van. of Human Wishes. Line 1 



OBSTINA CY— CEAN. 38 7 

OBSTINACY — see Fickleness. 

You maj' as well 
Forbid the sea for to obey the moon, 
As, or by oath, remove, or counsel, shake 
The fabric of his folly. 

3593 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Fools are stubborn in their way, 

As coins are harden'd by th' allay ; 
And obstinacy's ne'er so stiff 
As when 'tis in a wrong belief. 

3594 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 481. 

OCEAN. 

Quoth the ocean, " Dawn! O fairest, clearest, 
Touch me with thy golden lingers bland; 
For I have no smile till thou appearest 
For the lovely land." 

3595 Jean Ingelow : Winstanley. 
How happy they, 

Who, from the toil and tumult of their lives. 

Steal to look down where nought but ocean strives ! 

3596 Byron : Island. Canto ii. St. 1. 
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! 

Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; 
Man marks the earth with ruin — his control 
Stops with the shore ; — upon the watery plain 
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain 
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, 
When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, 
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, 
Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown. 

3597 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 179, 
Lovely seem'd any object that should sweep 

Away the vast, salt, dread, eternal deep. 

3598 Byron: Bon Juan. Canto ii. St. 103. 
Thou glorious mirror, where th' Almighty's form 
Glasses itself iu tempests, in all time, 

Calm or convulsed, in breeze, or gale, or storm, 

Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime, 

Dark-heaving ; — boundless, endless, and sublime, 

Th' image of Eternity, — the throne 

Of th' Invisible ; even from out thy slime 

The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone 

Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. 

And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy 

Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be 

Borne, like thy bubbles, onward. 

3599 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. Sts. 183 and 184. 



388 OCEAN. 

Oh ! how he listeued to the rushing deep, 
That ne'er till now so broke upon his sleep; 
And his wild spirit wilder wishes sent, 
Rous'd by the roar of his own element ! 

3600 Byron : Corsair. Canto iii. St. 7 
I hear a solemn murmur, 

And, listening to the sound, 

I knew the voice of the mighty Sea, 

Beating his pebbly bound. 

Dost thou, oh. path of the woodland! 

End where those waters roar, 

Like human life, on a trackless beach, 

With a boundless Sea before? 

3601 William Cullen Bryant : The Unknown Way, 
Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste, — 

Are but the solemn decorations all 
Of the great tomb of man. 

3602 William Cullen Bryant : Thanatopsis, 
I do not count the hours I spend 

In wandering by the sea : 
The forest is my loyal friend, 
A Delphic shrine to me. 

. 3603 Emerson : Waldeinsamkeit. St. 1. 

The sea tosses and foams to find 
Its way up to the cloud and wiud. 

360-1- Emerson : Woodnotes. Pt. ii. Line 275. 

Behold the Sea, 
The opaline, the plentiful and strong, 
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, 
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July ; 
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, 
1 Purger of earth, and medicine of men; 
Creating a sweet climate by my breath. 
Washing out harms and griefs from memory, 
And. in my mathematic ebb and flow, 
Giving a hint of that which changes not. 

3605 Emerson : Sea-Shore. 
The sea is still and deep. 

All things within its bosom sleep ! 

A single step, and all is o'er; 

A plunge, a bubble, and no more. 

3606 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. v. 
The sea is silent, the sea is discreet, 

Deep it lies at thy very feet. 

3607 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. v. 
The warm sea fondled with the shore, 

And laid his white face on the sands. 

3608 Joaquin Hiller : The Last Taschastas. Pt. ii. 



OCEAN. 389 

It keeps eternal whisperings around 
Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell 
Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell 
Of Hecate leaves them their old shadowy sound. 

3609 Keats : On the Sea. 
The sea 

Waits ages in its bed, 'till some one wave 
Out of the multitude aspires, extends 
The empire of the whole. 

3610 Robert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 3. 
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, 

Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. 

3611 Robert Broivning : Luria. Act i. 
Writes the sea 

The secret of her yearning in vast caves 
Where yours will fall, the first of human feet. 

3612 Robert Brovminy : Paracelsus. Sc. 1. 
The free 

flighty, music-haunted sea. 

3613 Anna Katharine Green: On the Threshold. 
One height 

Showed him the ocean, stretched in liquid light, 
And he could hear its multitudinous roar, 
Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore. 

3614 George Eliot: Legend of Jubal. Line 506. 

The land is dearer for the sea, 
The ocean for the shore. 

3615 Lucy Lar com : On the Beach. St. II. 

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore — 
A shore that wears on her alluring brows 
Kare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, 
That blushed a tell-tale. 

3616 Alexander Smith ; A Life Drama. Sc. 4. 
The sea is lonely, the sea is dreary, 

The sea is restless and uneasy ; 
Thou seekest quiet, thou art weary, 
Wandering thou knowest not whither. 

3617 James Russell Lowell : The Sirens. 
The sea is a jovial comrade, 

He laughs wherever he goes ; 

His merriment shines in the dimpling lines 

That wrinkle his hale repose; 

He lays himself down at the feet of the Sun, 

And shakes all over with glee, 

And the broad-backed billows fall faint on the shore, 

In the mirth of the mighty Sea ! 

3618 Bayard Taylor : Wind and Sea, 



3i)0 OCEAN— OCTOBER. 

The sea's absorbing and embracing blue. 

3619 Bayard Taylor: Picture of St. John. Bk. i. St. 34 
The heavens look down and see themselves in thee, 

And splendors, seen not elsewhere, that surround 

The rising and the setting of the sun 

Along thy vast and solitary realms. 

The blue dominion of the air is thine, 

And thine the pomps and pageants of the day, - 

The light, the glory, the magnificence, 

The congregated masses of the clouds, 

Islands, and mountains, and long promontories, 

Floating at unacccessible heights, whereto 

Thy fathomless depths are shallow — all are thine. 

3620 R. II. Stoddard : Hymn to the Sea. 
I love thee, Ocean, and delight in thee, 

Thy color, motion, vastness, — all the eye 
Takes in from shore, and on the tossing waves ; 
Nothing escapes me, not the least of weeds 
That shrivels and blackens on the barren sand. 

3621 R. H Stoddard: Hymn to the Sea. 
Thou wert before the Continents, before 

The hollow heavens, which like another sea 
Encircles them, and thee; but whence thou wert, 
And when thou wast created, is not known. 
Antiquity was young when thou wast old. 
There is no limit to thy strength, no end 
To thy magnificence. Thou goest forth 
On thy long journeys to remotest lauds, 
And comest back unwearied. 

3622 B. H. Stoddard : Hymn to the Sea. 
I loved the Sea. 

Whether in calm it glassed the gracious day 
With all its light, the night with all its fires ; 
Whether in storm it lashed. its sullen spray, 
Wild as the heart when passionate youth expires ; 
Or lay, as now, a torture to my mind, 
In yonder land-locked bay, unwrinklecl by the wind. 

3623 R. H Stoddard : Carmen Naturae Triumphale. 

OCTOBER — see Months. 
Yellow leaves, how fast they flutter — woodland hollows 

thickly strewing, 
Where the wan October sunbeams scantly in the mid-day 

win, 
While the dim gray clouds are drifting, and in saddened 

hues imbuing 
All without and all within ! 

3624 Jean Ingelow : On the Deaths of Three Children. 



OCTOBER — OFFENCE. 391 

The yellow poplar leaves came down 
And like a carpet lay, 
No waftings were in the sunny air 
To flutter them away. 

3625 Jean Ingelow : Strife and Peace. 
O'er shouting children flies 

That light October wind, 
And, kissing cheeks and eyes, 
He leaves their merry cries 
Far behind. 

3626 William Cullen Bryant : Voice of Autumn, 
Autumn is here ; we cull his lingering flowers. 



The sweet calm sunshine of October, now 
Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould 
The purple oak-leaf falls ; the birchen bough 
Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold. 

3627 William Cullen Bryant : October, 1866. 
October's foliage yellows with his cold. 

3628 Ruskin : The Months. 
Bending above the spicy woods which blaze, 

Arch skies so blue they flash, and hold the sun 
Immeasurably far : the waters run 
Too slow, so freighted are the river-ways 
With gold of elms and birches from the maze 
Of forests. 

3629 Helen Hunt: October. 
October turned my maple's leaves to gold ; 

The most are gone now ; here and there one lingers : 
Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold. 
Like coins between a dying miser's fingers. 

3630 T. B. Aldrich : Maple Leaves. 

ODDS. 
But one against a multitude 
Is more than mortal can make good. 

3631 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 73. 

OFFENCE— see Cause and Effect, Exculpation. 
Well you kuow, we of th' offering side 
Must keep aloof from strict arbitrament; 
And stop all sight-holes, every loop, from whence 
The eye of reason may pry in upon us. 

3632 Shales.: 1 Henry IV Act iv. Sc . 1. 
In such a time as this, it is not meet 

That every nice offence should bear his comment. 

3633 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
My offence is rank, it smells to heaven. 

%34 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



,392 OFFENCE— OLD AGE. 

All's not offence that indiscretion finds, 
And dotage terms so. 

3635 Shales. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4 
At every trifle scorn to take ofi'ence ; 

That always shows great pride, or little sense. 

3636 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 186. 
OFFICE — see Ambition, Favor, Patronage. 

You, yourself 
Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm : 
To sell and mart your offices for gold 
To undeservers. 

3637 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

place and greatness ! millions of false eyes 
Are stuck upon thee ; volumes of reports 

Kun with these false and most, contrarious quests 
Upon th} r doings : thousand escapes of wit 
Make thee the father of their idle dream, 
And wrack thee in their fancies. 

3638 Shaks. : M.for M. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Here and there some stern, high patriot stood, 

Who could not get the place for which he sued. 

3639 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiii. St. 70. 
OLD AGE — see Care. 

Broppeth uow from off my head 

A silver hair : 

Plainer preacher never said — 

" For death prepare ! " 

Fill'd with gloom 

We follow Time with solemn tread 

To the tomb. 

3640 Richard Coe: Emblems. 
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; 

Por in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; 
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 
The means of weakness and debility : 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly. 

3641 Shaks. : As You Like Lt. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
" Let me not live," quoth he, 

"After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff 
Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses 
All but new things disdain : whose judgments are 
Mere fathers of their garments : whose constancies 
Expire before their fashions." 

3642 Shaks. : AIVs Well. Act i. Sc. 2 

1 have not that alacrity of spirit 

Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. 

3643 Shaks. : Richard ILL Act v. Sc. S. 



OLD AGE. 393 

Though now this grained face of mine be hid 
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, 
And all the conduits of my blood froze up 
Yet hath my night of life some memory, 
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, 
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear : 
All these old witnesses (I cannot err) 
Tell me, thou art my son Antipholus. 

3644 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. 
'Tis our fast intent 

To shake all cares and business from our age, 
Conferring them on younger strengths, while we 
Unburden'cl crawl toward death. 

3645 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Beshrew my jealousy ! 

It seems it is as proper to our age 
To cast beyond ourselves in our opinions, 
As it is common for the younger sort 
To lack discretion. 

3646 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
I'm growing fonder of my staff; 

I'm growing dimmer in the eyes ; 

I'm growing fainter in my laugh ; 

I'm growing deeper in my sighs ; 

I'm growing careless of my dress ; 

I'm growiug frugal of my gold ; 

I'm growing wise ; I'm growing, — yes, — 

I'm growing old. 

3647 J. G. Saxe : I'm Growing Old. 
A venerable aspect ! 

Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, 
And worthily become his silver locks : 
He wears the marks of many years well spent, 
Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience. 

3648 Howe : Jane Shore. Act i. Sc. 2. 
When he is forsaken, 

Withered and shaken, 

What can an old man do but die? 

3649 Hood: Ballad. 
Each succeeding year stole something away from her 

beauty, 
Leaving behind it, broader and deeper, the gloom and the 

shadow. 
Then there appeared and spread faint streaks of gray o'er 

her forehead, 
Dawn of another life, that broke o'er her earthly horizon, 
As in the eastern sky the first faint streaks of the morning. 

3650 Longfellow: Evangeline. Pt. ii. iv. Line 170. 



394 OLD AGE — OPPORTUNITY. 

Whatever poet, orator, or sage 

May say of it, old age is still old age. 

Age is opportunity no less 
Than youth itself, though in another dress, 
And as the evening twilight fades away 
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. 

3651 Longfellow : Morituri Salutamus. 
Time has laid his hand 

Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, 
But as a harper lays his open palm 
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. 

3652 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv. 
Old Age. a second child, by nature curst 

With more and greater evils than the first, 
Weak, sickly, full of pains : in ev'ry breath 
Bailing at life, and yet afraid of death. 

3653 Churchill : Gotham. Bk. i. Line 215. 
My days are in the yellow leaf; 

The flowers and fruits of love are gone ; 

The worm, the canker, and the grief, 

Are mine alone. 

• 3654 Byron : On My Thirty-sixth Year. 

OMEN. 
The owl shriek' d at thy birth, an evil sign ; 
The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time; 
Dogshowl'cl, and hideous tempests shook down trees; 
The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top, 
And chattering pies in dismal discords sung. 

3655 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 6. 

OPINION — see Argument. 

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 

3656 Shaks. : Pericles. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Opinion governs all mankind, 

Like the blind's leading of the blind; 
Eor he that has no eyes in's head, 
Must be by a clog glad to be led ; 
And no beasts have so little in them, 
As that inhuman brute, Opinion. 

3657 Butler : Misc. The lights. Line 267. 

OPPORTUNITY — see Activity, Decision, Temptation. 
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, 
Make ill deeds done ! 

3658 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. % 



OPPORTUNITY— ORATORY. 395 

I And my zenith cloth depend upon 
A most auspicious star ; whose influence 
If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes 
Will ever after droop. 

3659 Shaks. : Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Thejneans that heav'n yields must be embrac'd, 

And not neglected ; else, if heaven would, 
And we will not. heaven's offer we refuse, 
The proffer'd means of succor and redress. 

3660 Shaks. : Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
A little Are is quickly trodden out ; 

Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. 

3661 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 8. 
Our hands are full of business : let's away ; 
Advantage feeds them fat, while men delay. 

3662 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offer'd, 

Shall never find it more. 

3663 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. J. 
O Opportunity ! thy guilt is great : 

"lis thou that execut'st the traitor's treason; 
Thou sett' st the wolf where he the lamb may get; 
Whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season; 
'Tis thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason. 
3661 Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 876. 

OPPRESSION — see Aggression, Compassion, Conduct, Tyr- 
anny. 
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue : 
His faults lie open to the laws ; let them, 
Not you, correct him. 

3665 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
ORATORY — see Argument, Counsel, Eloquence, Rhetoric. 

Thence to the famous orators repair, 
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence 
Wielded at will that fierce democracy, 
Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, 
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. 

3666 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. iv. Line 267. 
And 'tis remarkable, that they 

Talk most, who have the least to say. 
Your dainty speakers have the curse, 
To plead bad causes clown to worse : 
As clames, who native beauty want, 
Still uglier look, the more they paint. 

3667 Prior : Alma. Canto ii. Line 345. 
Grac'd as thou art with all the pow'r of words, 

So known, so honor d, at the House of Lords. 

3668 Pope : Satire iv. Line 48, 



396 ORA TOR Y — OR THOD OX Y. 

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, 
The cry of au applauding multitude, 
Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields 
The living- mass as if he were its soul! 

3669 William Cullen Bryant : Flood of Years. 
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. 

3670 Churchill : Rosciad. Line 322. 
His speech was a line sample, on the whole, 

Of rhetoric, which the learu'd call ''rigmarole:' 

3671 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 174. 
Proud of his " Hear hims," proud too of his vote 

And lost virginity of oratory, 

Proud of his learning (just enough to quote). 

He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory : 

With mem'ry excellent to get by rote, 

With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story, 

Grac'd with some merit and with more effrontery, 

"His country's pride," he came down to the country. 

3672 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiii. St. 91. 

ORDER. 

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, 
• Observe degree, priority, and place, 

Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, 

Office, aud custom, in all line of order. 

3673 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Order is heav'n's first law ; and this confest, 

Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 
More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence 
That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 

3674 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 49 
Whene order iu yariety we see, 

And where, though all things differ, all agree. 

3675 POpe : Windsor Forest. Line 15. 

ORNAMENT — see Law, Religion. 

The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. 

3676 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Ornament is but the guiled shore 

To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf 
Veiliug an Indian ; beauty, in a word, 
The seeming truth which cunning times ptit on 
To entrap the wisest. 

3677 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

ORTHODOXY— see Belief, Sect. 
What's orthodox, and true believing, 
Against a conscience? — a good living. 

3678 Butler : Hudibr as. Pt. "iii. Canto i. Line 1273. 



ORTHODOXY— PARALLEL. 39; 



He was of that stubborn crew 
Of errant saints, whom all men grant 
To be the true church militant : 
Such as do build their faith upon 
The holy text of pike and gun ; 
Decide all controversy by 
Infallible artillery ; 
And prove their doctrine orthodox 
By apostolic blows and knocks. 

3679 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 192. 

OUTCAST. 
He dies, sad outcast of each church and state, 
And harder still, flagitious, yet not great. 

3680 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 204. 

OUTLAW. 

He that is drunken 



Is outlawed by himself ; all kind of ill 
Did with his liquor slide into his veins. 

3681 Herbert : Temple. Church Porch. St. 6. 

OWL — see Omen. 

The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold. 

3682 ' Keats : The Eve of St. Agnes. 



P. 

PAIN — see Death. 

All delights are vain : but that most vain, 
Which, with pain purchas'd, cloth inherit pain. 

3683 Shaks. : Love's Labor Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Pain pavs the income of each precious thins:. 

3684 * Shaks. : B. of Lucrece. Line 334 

Sense of pleasure we may well 
Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine. 
But live content, which is the calmest life ; 
But pain is perfect misery, the worst 
Of evils, and excessive, overturns 
All patience. 

3685 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vi. Line 459. 
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain 

To feel much anger. 

3686 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i. 
Pain is no longer pain when it is past. 

3687 Margaret J. Preston : Sonnet. Nature's Lesson* 
PARALLEL. 

None but himself can be his parallel. 

3688 Theobald : Double Falsehood. 



398 PARALLEL — PARENTS. 

Aud but herself admits no parallel. 

3689 Massinger : Duke of Milan. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

PARASITE. 

Live loath'd, aud long, 
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, 
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, 
You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's-flies, 
Cap-and-knee slaves, vapors, and minute-jacks 1 
Of man, and beast, the infinite malady 
Crust you quite o'er. 

3690 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iii. Sc. 6. 
PARDON — see Murder. 

When by a pardon'd murd'rer blood is spilt, 
The judge that pardon'd hath the greatest guilt. 

3691 Denham : On Justice. Line 81. 

PARENTS — see Children, Father, Mother. 
Unreasonable creatures feed their young : 
And though man's face be fearful to their eyes, 
Yet, in protection of their tender ones, 
Who hath not seen them (even with those wings 
Which sometimes they have used with fearful flight) 
Make war with him that climb'd unto their nest, 
Offering their own lives in their young's defence? 

3692 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
To you your father should be as a god ; 

One that composed your beauties ; yea, and one 
To whom you are but as a form in wax, 
By him imprinted, and within his power 
To leave the figure, or disfigure it. 

3693 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Great families of yesterday we show, 

And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. 

3694 Defoe : True-Born Englishman. Pt. i. Line 1. 
Parents, to their offspring blind, 

Consult nor parts, nor turn of mind; 

But, ev'n in infancy, decree 

What this, what t'other son shall be. 

3695 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 14. 
Vulgar parents cannot stamp their race, 

With signatures of such majestic grace. 

3696 Pope : Odyssey. Bk. iv. Line 75. 
Me, let the tender office long engage 

To rock the cradle of reposing age : 

With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 

Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death. 

3697 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 408. 



PARLIAMENT— PARTING. 399 

PARLIAMENT. 

Britain, changeful as a child at play, 
Now calls in princes, and now turns away; 
Now Whig - , now Tory, what we lov'd we hate ; 
Now all for pleasure, now for Church and State ; 
Now for prerogative, and now for laws ; 
Effects unhappy ! from a noble cause. 

3698 Pope : Satire v. Line 155. 

PARTING— see Absence, Adieu, Farewell, Friendship, Good- 
night, Love, Meeting-. 

What! gone without a word? 
Ay, so true love should do : it cannot speak ; 
For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it. 

3699 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Portia, adieu ! I have too griev'd a heart 

To take a tedious leave. 

3700 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
His eye being big with tears, 

Turning his face, he put his hand behind him, 

And with affection wondrous sensible, 

He wrung Bassanio's hand ; and so they parted. 

3701 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 8. 
Ev'n thus two friends condemn'd 

Embrace and kiss, and take ten thousand leaves, 
Loather a hundred times to part than die. 

3702 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
If I depart from thee, I cannot live; 

And in thy sight to die, Avhat were it else 
But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap ? 



To die by thee were but to die in jest ; 

Erom thee to die were torture more than death. 

3703 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Whether we shall meet again, I know not, 

Therefore our everlasting farewell take : — 
Eor ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius ! 
If we do meet again, why we shall smile : 
If not, why then this parting was well made. 

3704 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act v. Sc 1. 
So long 

As he could make me with his eye or ear 
Distinguish him from others, he did keep 
The deck, with glove, or hat, or handkerchief, 
Still Avaving, as the fits and stirs of his mind 
Could best express how slow his soul sail'd on, 
How swift his ship. 

3705 Shaks. : CymbcUne. Act i. Sc. 4. 



400 PARTING. 

Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. 
370G Shahs. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc, 4, 

They who go 
Feel not the pain of parting ; it is they 
Who stay behind that suffer. 

3707 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. I. i. 

'Tis almost morning, I would have thee gone ; 
And yet no further than a wanton's bird; 
Who lets it hop a little from her hand, 
Like a poor prisoner in its twisted gyves, 
And with a silk thread plucks it back again, 
So loving-jealous of his liberty. 

3708 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Farewell ! God knows when we shall meet again. 
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, 
That almost freezes up. the heat of life. 

3709 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

And so, without more circumstance at all, 

I hold it fit, that we shake hands and part : 

You, as your business and desire shall point you, — 

For every man hath business and desire, 

Such as it is, — and for my own poor part, 

Look you, I'll go pray 

3710 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 

The ship went on with solemn face ; 
To meet the darkness on the deep, 
The solemn ship went onward. 
I bowed down weary in the place, 
For parting tears and present sleep 
Had weighed mine eyelids downward. 

3711 Mrs. Browning : A Sabbath Morning at Sea. 

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence; 
Else who could bear it? 

3712 Rowe : Tamerlane. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

One kind kiss before we part, 
Drop a tear and bid adieu ; 
Though we sever, my fond heart 
Till we meet shall pant for you. 

3713 Dodsley : The Parting Kiss. 

Think'st thou that I could bear to part 
With thee, and learn to halve my heart? 



Years have not seen, time shall not see 
The hour that tears my soul from thee. 

3714 Byron : Bride of Ab. Cauto i. St. ii 



PARTING — PASSION. 401 

With thee, my bark, I'll swiftly go, 
Athwart the foaming- brine, 
Nor care what land thou bear'st me to, 
So not again to mine. 

3715 " Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 13. 
For pleasures past I do not grieve, 

Nor perils gathering near ; 

My greatest grief is that I leave 

No thing that claims a tear. 

3716 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 13. 
They tell me 'tis decided ; you depart : 

'Tis wise, 'tis well, but not the less a pain; 

I have no further claim on your young heart, 

Mine is the victim, and would be again ; 

To love too much has been the only art 

I used; — I write in haste, and if a stain 

Be on this sheet, 'tis not what it appears, 

My eyeballs burn and throb, but have no tears. 

3717 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 192 
Their meetings made December June, 

Their every parting was to die. 

3718 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xcvi. St. 3. 
To know, to esteem, to love — and then to part 

Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart ! 

3719 Coleridge : On taking leave of — , 1817. 
Our hands have met, but not our hearts ; 

Our hands will never meet again. 

Friends if we have ever been, 

Friends we cannot now remain : 

I only know I loved you once, 

I only know I loved in vain. 

Our hands have met, but not our hearts ; 

Our hands will never meet again ! 

3720 Hood : False Friend. 
Enough, that we are parted — that there rolls 

A flood of headlong fate between our souls, 
Whose darkness severs me as wide from thee 
As hell from heaven, to all eternity. 

3721 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 

With all my soul, then let us part, 
Since both are anxious to be free ; 
And I will send you home your heart, 
If you will send back mine to me ! 

3722 Moore : Juvenile Poems. To * * * 

PASSION —see Choler, Hobbies, Independence. 
Take heed lest by your heat you burn yourselves. 

3723 Shdks. : 2 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 1. 



402 PASSION— PAST. 

Rage is the shortest passion of our souls : 

Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden showers, 

It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. 

3724 Bowe : Fair Penitent. Act ii. Sc. 1 
Search then the ruling passion ; there alone 

The wild are constant, and the cunning known ; 
The fool consistent, and the false sincere : 
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. 

3725 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 174. 
Oh ye cold-hearted, frozen formalists ! 

On such a theme, 'tis impious to be calm; 
Passion is reason, transport temper, here. 

3726 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 638. 
His soul, like bark with rudder lost, 

On passion's changeful tide was tost ; 
Nor vice nor virtue had the power 
Beyond th' impression of the hour; 
And 0, when passion rules, how rare 
The hours that fall to virtue's share ! 

3727 Scott : Bokeby. Canto v. St. 23. 
Alas ! too well, too well they know 

The pain, the penitence, the woe 
That passion brings down on the best, 
The wisest and the loveliest. 

3728 Moore : Loves of the Angels : Second Angel's Story. 
PAST, THE. 

Wondrous and awful are thy silent halls, 
O kingdom of the past ! 
There lie the bygone ages in their palls, 
Guarded by shadows vast. 

3729 James Bussell Lowell : To the Past. 
We do not serve the dead — the past is past! 

God lives, and lifts his glorious mornings up 
Before the eyes of men, awake at last, 
Who put away the meats they used to sup. 

3730 Mrs. Browning : Gasa Guidi Windows. Bk. i. Line 118. 
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping. 

3731 Helen Hunt : At Last. 
But the tender grace of a clay that is dead 

Will never come back to me. 

3732 Tennyson : Break, Break, Break. 
Over the trackless past, somewhere, 

Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, 
Only regained by faith and prayer, 
Only recalled by prayer and plaint : 
Each lost day has its patron saint. 

3733 Bret Harte : The Lost Galleon, Last St 



PATIENCE. 403 

PATIENCE — see Advice, Cowardice, Love. 
I do oppose 
My patience to his fury ; aud am arm'd 
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, 
The very tyranny and rage of his. 

3734 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Come what, come may : 
Time and the hour runs through the roughest clay. 

3735 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 

What cannot be preserv'd when fortune takes, 
Patience her injury a mockery makes. 
The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief ; 
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. 

3736 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. iii. 

How poor are they, that have not patience ! 
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? 

3737 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

gentle son, 

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper 
Sprinkle cool patience. 

3738 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Patience is more oft the exercise 
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, 
Making them each his own deliverer, 
And victor over all 
That tyranny or fortune can inflict. 

3739 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 1287. 

Patience ! preach it to the winds, 
To roaring seas, or raging fires ! the knaves 
That teach it, laugh at ye when ye believe them. 

3740 Otwaij : Orphan. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Experience, like a pale musician, holds 
A dulcimer of patience in his hand, 
Whence harmonies we cannot understand, 
Of God's will in his worlds, the strain unfolds 
Iu sad perplexed minors: deathly colds 
Pall on us while we hear and countermand 
Our sanguine heart back from the fancy-laud 
With nightingales in visionary wolds. 

3741 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets. Perplexed Music. 

1 must bear 

What is ordained with patience, being aware 
Necessity doth front the universe 
With an invincible gesture. 

3742 Mrs. Browning : Prometheus Bound 



404 PA TIENCE — PA TRIOTISM. 

Patience ; accomplish thy labor ; accomplish thy work of 

affection ! 
Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurauce is 

godlike. 
Therefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is 

made godlike, 
Purified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more 

worthy of heaven. 
3743 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. II. i. Line 59. 

Let us then be up and doing, 
With a heart for any fate ; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labor and to wait. 

3741 Longfellovj : Psalm of Life. 

Patience is powerful. 

3745 Longfellow : T. of Wayside Inn. Nun of Nidaros. St. 6. 
Let nothing disturb thee, 

Nothing affright thee ; 
All things are passing ; 
God never changeth ; 
Patient endurance 
Attaineth to all things ; 
Who God possesseth 
In nothing is wanting ; 
Alone God sufficeth. 

3746 Longfellow : St. Teresa's Book-mark. From Spanish of 

[Santa Teresa. 
Patience is a plant 
That grows not in all gardens. 

3747 Longfellovj : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 4. 
There are times when patience proves at fault. 

3748 Bobert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 3. 
Endurance is the crowning quality, 

And patience all the passion of great hearts. 

3749 James Bussell Lowell : Columbus. 

PATRIOTISM. 

What pity is it 
That we can die but once to serve our country ! 

3750 Addison : Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, 

In action faithful, and in honor clear; 
Who broke no promise, served no private end, 
Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend; 
Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd. 
And prais'd, unenvied by the muse he lov'd. 

3751 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. v. Line 67 



PATRIOTISM. . 405 

Our fathers' God ! from out whose hand 
The centuries fall like grains of sand, 
We meet to-day. united, free, 
And loyal to our land and Thee, 
To thank Thee for the era done, 
And trust Thee for the opening one. 

3752 Whittier: Centennial Hymn. 
Aluch is the patriot's weeding hand required. 

The toils of law (which dark insidious men 
Have cumbrous added to perplex, the truth. 
And lengthen simple justice into trade :) 
How glorious were the days that saw these broke, 
And every man within the reach of right ! 

3753 Thomson: Seasons. Winter. Line 365. 
Strike — for j-our altars and your fires ; 

Strike — for the green graves of your sires; 
God, and your native land ! 

3754 Fitz-Greene Halleck: Marco Bozzaris. 
The age of virtuous politics is past, 

And we are deep in that of cold pretence. 
Patriots are grown too shrewd to be sincere, 
And we too wise to trust them. 

3755 Coipper: Task. Bk. v. Line 492. 
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, 

One Xation evermore ! 

3756 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Toy. of the Gd. Ship Union. 
Firm-paced and slow, a horrid front they form, 

Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm; 
Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, 
Eevenge or death — the watchword and reply, 
Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, 
And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm. 

3757 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. i. Line 367c 
My country, 'tis of thee, 

Sweet land of liberty, — 
Of thee I sing : 
Land where my fathers died, 
Land of the pilgrims' pride, 
Prom every mountain side 
Let freedom ring. 

3758 Samuel F. Smith: National Hymn, 
Ah! when the wanderer, lonely, friendless, 

In foreign harbors shall behold 

That flag unrolled, 

'Twill be as a friendly hand 

Stretched out from his native land, 

Pilling his heart with memories sweet and endless i 

3759 Longfellow: Building of the Ship. 



406 P* 1 TRIO TISM — PE. 1 ( /•:. 

The corner-stone of a nation. 1 

3700 Longfellow: Court, of Miles Standish. Pt. v. Line 70 

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, 
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, onr tear-. 
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears. 
Are all with thee, — arc all with thee ! 

3701 Longfellow: Building of the Ship. 

Sail on, O Ship of State ! 
Sail on, O Union, strong and great! 
Humanity with all its fears, 
"With all the hopes of future years, 
Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 

3702 Longfelloiv : Building of the Ship. 

PEACE. 
A peace is of the nature of a couquest ; 
For then both parties nobly are subdued, 
And neither party loser. 

3703 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act iv. Sc. 2. 

In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man, 
As modest stillness, and humility. 

3704 Shaks.: Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Ay : but give me worship and quietness, 
I like it better than a dangerous honor. 

3705 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

They humbly sue unto your excellence, 
To have a godly peace concluded. 
37GG Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Now i- the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York; 
And all the clouds that lower'd upon our house, 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 

3707 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act i. Sc. 1. 

I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pass away the time, 
Unless to see my shadow in the sun. 

3708 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i Sc. 1. 

If I unwittingly, or in ray rage. 

Have aught committed that is hardly borne 

By any in this presence. I desire 

To reconcile me to his friendly peace : 

'Tis death to me, to be at enmity: 

I hate it, and desire all good men's love. 

3709 Shaks. : Richard III. Act ii. Sc. L 

i Plymouth Hock. 



PEACE. 407 

Still in tliy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silent envious tongues. Be just and fear not : 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 
Thv God's, and truth's. 

3770 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base : 
Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. 

3771 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Peace hath her victories, 

No less renowned than war. 

3772 Milton: Sonnet xvi. 
Peace the offspring is of Power. 

3773 Bayard Taylor: A Thousand Years. 

O Peace ! thou source and soul of social life ; 
Beneath whose calm inspiring influence, 
Science his views enlarges, Art refines, 
And swelling Commerce opens all her ports; 
Blessed be the man divine, who gives us thee! 

3774 Thomson: Britannia. Line 122. 

O Peace! the fairest child of heaven, 

To whom the sylvan reign was given; 

The vale, the fountain, and the grove, 

With every softer scene of love : 

Return, sweet peace ! and cheer the weeping swain; 

Return, with ease and pleasure in thy train. 

3775 Thomson: Masque of Alfred,. Song to Peace. 

My soul, there is a countrie 
Afar beyond the stars, 
Where stands a winged sentrie 
All skilful in the wars. 
There, above noise and danger, 
Sweet peace sits crown'd with smiles, 
And one born in a manger 
Commands the beauteous files. 

3776 Henry Vaughan : Peace- 

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. 

3777 Collins: Hassan ; or the Camel Driver. 

Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain : 
t; Think nothing gain'd," he cries, " till nought remain." 

3778 Dr. Johnson: Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 201. 

Oh! these were hours when thrilling joy repaid 
A long, long course of darkness, doubts, aud fears — 
The heartsick faintness of the hope delay'd. 
The waste, the woe, the bloodshed, and the tears, 
That track'd with terror twenty rolling years. 

3779 Scott : Lord of the Isles. Canto vi. St, L 



408 PEA CE — PEDANTR Y. 

The moon is at licr full, and, riding high, 

Floods the calm fields with light. 

The airs that hover in the summer sky 

Are all asleep to-night. 

There comes no voice from the great woodlands round 

That murmured all the day ; 

Beneath the shadow of their boughs the ground 

Is not more still than they. 

3780 William Cullen Bryant : The Tidez 
Peace was on the earth and in the air. 

3781 William Cullen Bryant : The Ages. St. 30. 
Brave minds, howe'er at war, are secret friends, 

Their generous discord with the battle ends ; 
In peace they wonder whence dissension rose, 
And ask how souls so like could e'er be foes. 

3782 Tickell : Prospect of Peace. Line 29. 
Mark ! where his carnage and his conquests cease ! 

He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace. 

3783 Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto ii. St. 20. 
PEARL. 

A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, 
And may be found too in an oyster shell. 

3784 Bunyan : Apology for his Book. Line 8*9. 

PEASANTRY — see Country Life. 

Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : 
Princes and lords may nourish, or may fade — 
A breath can make them, as a breath has made : 
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 
When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. 

3785 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 51. 
Cheerful, at morn, he wakes from short repose, 

Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes. 

378G Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 185. 

At night returning, ev'ry labor sped, 
He sits him down the monarch of a shed. 

3787 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 191. 
PEDANTRY — see Log-ic. 

For pedantry is but a corn, or wart, 

Bred in the skin of judgment, sense, and art; 

A stupefied excrescence, like a wen, 

Fed by the peccant humors of learn'd men, 

That never grows from natural defects 

Of downright and untutor'd intellects, 

But from the over-curious and vain 

Distempers of an artificial brain. 

3788 Butler : Sat. Upon Abuse of II. Learning. Line 293. 



PEDANTRY— PEOPLE. 409 

The "bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 
With loads of learned lumber in his head, 
With his own tongue still edifies his ears. 
And always listening to himself appears. 

3789 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 53. 

PEN— see Authors. 

The unhappy man who once has trail'd a pen, 
Lives not to please himself, but other men ; 
Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, 
Yet only eats and drinks what you think good. 

3790 * Dryden : Prol. to Lee's Caesar Borgia. 
Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink. 

So may he cease to write, and learn to think. 

3791 Prior: To a Person who Wrote ill. On Same Person. 
Oh! Nature's noblest gift — my gray-goose quill: 

Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, 
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen. 
That mighty instrument of little men ! 

3792 " Byron : English Bards. Line 7. 
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, 

The pen is mightier than the sword. 

3793 Bulwer-LyUon : Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

PENTAMETER. 

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column ; 
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. 

3794 Coleridge: Ocidian Elegiac Jletre 

PEOPLE — .see Mob, Popularity. 

And what the people but a herd confus'd, 

A miscellaneous rabble, who extol 

Things vulgar, and. well weigh'd. scarce worth the praise? 

They praise, and they admire, they know not what, 

And know not whom, but as one leads the other; 

And what delight to be by such extolfd. 

To live upon their tongues, and be their talk. 

Of whom to be dispraiVd were no small praise? 

3795 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. iii. Line 49. 
" God save the king ! " aud kings, 

For if He don't. I doubt if men will longer; — 

I think I hear a little bird, who sings 

The people by and by will be the stronger : 

The veriest jade will wince whose harness wrings 

So much iuto the raw as quite to wrong her 

Beyond the rules of posting, — and the mob 

At last fall sick of imitating Job. 

3796 Byron: Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 5C. 



410 PEOPLE — PERSE VERANCE. 

The people sweat not for their king's delight, 
'T enrich a pimp, or raise a parasite ; 
Theirs is the toil; and he who well has served 
His country, has his country's wealth deserved. 

3797 Dryden : Sigismonda and Guiscardo. Line 553. 

PERFECTION — see Excess, Man. 

All, that life can rate, 
"Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate ; 
Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage, virtue, all 
That happiness and prime can happy call. 

3798 Shales. : All's Well. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Compare her face with some that I shall show, 

And it will make thee think thy swan a crow. 

3799 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 2, 
One fairer than my love ! the all-seeing sun 

Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun. 

3800 Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 2. 
To those who know thee not, no words can paint ! 

And those who know thee, know all words are faint! 

3801 Hannah More : Sensibility. Line 247. 
Nature, in her productions slow, aspires, 

By just degrees to reach perfection's height. 

3802 Somerville : Chase. Bk. i. Line 32. 

PERJURY — see Oaths. 

At lovers' perjuries, 
They say, Jove laughs. 

3803 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, 

Till perjuries are common as bad pence, 
While thousands, careless of the damning sin, 
Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look within? 

3804 Cowper : Expostulation. Line 388. 

PERSEVERANCE — see Endurance, Industry. 
Perseverance, dear my lord. 
Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang 
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail 
In monumental mockery. 

3805 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt ; 

Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. 

3806 Herrick : Aph. Seek and Find. 
The man who consecrates his hours 

By vig'rous effort, and an honest aim, 
At once he draws the sting of life and death ; 
He walks with nature; and her paths are peace. 
3307 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 187. 



PERSE VERANCE — PHIL OSOPHERS. 41 1 

Pay goodly heed, all ye who read, 
And beware of saying. I can't, 
'Tis a cowardly word, and apt to lead 
To idleness, folly, and want. 

3808 Eliza Cook : Try Again* 

PERSUASION — see Eloquence. 
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, 
By winning words, to conquer willing hearts, 
And make persuasion do the work of fear. 

3809 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. i. Line 221. 

PETITIONS. 

When maidens sue 
Men give like gods ; but when they weep and kneel, 
All their petitions are as freely theirs, 
As they themselves would owe them. 

3810 Shaks. : M. for M. Act i. Sc. 5. 
Petitions not sweetened 

With gold, are but unsavory ; oft refused ; 
Or, if received, are pocketed, not read. 

3811 Massing er : Emperor of the East. Act i. Sc. 2. 

PHILOSOPHERS, PHILOSOPHY — see Knowledge. 
I pray thee, peace ; I will be flesh and blood ! 
Por there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the tooth-ache patiently ; 
However they have writ the style of gods, 
And made a push at chance and sufferance. 

3812 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1. 
How charming is divine Philosophy ! 

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, 
But musical as is Apollo's lute, 
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, 
Where no crude surfeit reigns. 

3813 Milton: Comus. Line 476. 
Yet great philosophers delight to stretch 

Their talents most at things beyond their reach, 
And proudly think t' unriddle every cause, 
That nature uses, by their own bye-laws. 

3814 Butler: Sat. Upon Abuse of H. Learning. Line 113. 
Besides, he was a shrewd Philosopher, 

And had read every text and gloss over. 
Whate'cr the crabbed'st author saith 
He understood b' implicit faith : 
Whatever sceptic could inquire for; 
Por ev'ry why he had a wherefore. 

3815 Butler: Iludibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 127' 



£12 PHILOSOPHERS — PH YSIC 

In lazy apathy let stoics boast 
Their virtue iixxl ; 'tis fix'd as in a frost, 
Contracted all, retiring to the breast; 
But strength of mind is exercise, not rest; 
The rising tempest puts in act the soul, 
Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. 
3S1G Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 10L 

Tutored by thee, hence Poetry exalts 
Her voice to ages ; and informs the page 
With music, image, sentiment, and thought, 
i Never to die ! the treasure of mankind ! 
Their highest honor, and their truest joy ! 
Without thee, what were unenlighten'd Man? 

3817 Thomson :. Seasons. Summer. Line 1157. 
Much learned dust 

Involves the combatants, each claiming truth, 
And truth disclaiming both. And thus they spend 
The little wick of life's poor shallow lamp, 
In playing tricks with nature, giving laws 
To distant worlds, and trifling in their own. 

3818 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line 1G1. 

. Divine Philosophy ! by whose pure light 
We first distinguish, then pursue the right; 
Thy power the breast from every error frees, 
And weeds out all its vices by degrees. 

3819 Clifford's Juvenal. Satire xiii. Line 254. 
Sublime Philosophy ! 

Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, 
And bright with beckoning angels ; but, alas ! 
We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams, 
By the first step, dull slumbering on the earth. 
'3820 Bulwer-Lytton : Richelieu. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

PHRENOLOGY. 

'Tis strange how like a very dunce, 
Man — with his bumps upon his sconce, 
Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he 
Has had, till lately, of phrenology — 
A science that by simple dint of 
Head-ccmbing he should find a hint of, 
When scratching o'er those little pole-hills 
The faculties throw up like mole-hills. 

3821 Hood: Craniology. 

PHYSIC, PHYSICIANS — see Doctors. 
Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. 

3822 Shales. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3. 



PHYSIC — PIX. 413 

1 do remember an apothecary. — 
And hereabouts he dwells, — whom late I noted 
In tatter' d weeds, with overwhelming brows, 
Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, 
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. 

3s23 Shales. : Bom. and Jul. Act v. Sc. 1. 

A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, 
Is more than armies to the public weal. 

3821 Pope : Iliad. Bk. xi. Line 636. 

This is the way physicians mend or end us, 
Secundum a.rtem : — but although we sneer 
In health — when ill, we call them to attend us, 
"Without the least propensity to jeer. 

3825 Byron : Don Juan. Canto x. St. 4-2. 

You behold in me 
Only a travelling physician ; 
One of the few who have a mission 
To cure incurable diseases, 
Or those that are called so. 

• 3826 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. i. 

Joy. and Temperance, and Kepose, 
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. 

3827 Longfellow : Poetic Aphorisms. 

PIETY — see Devotion, Religion. 
Why should not piety be made, 
As well as equity, a trade, 
And men get money by devotion, 
As well as making of a motion ; 
B' allowed to pray upon conditions, 
As well as suitors in petitions ; 
And in a congregation pray, 
Ko less than Chancery, for pay? 

3828 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 295. 
Some feelings are to mortals given, 

With less of earth in them than heaven. 

3829 Scott : Lady of the Lake. Canto ii. St. 22. 

PIGMIES. 
Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on Alps, 
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 

3830 Young: Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 309. 

PIN. 

A pin lies there, 
A pin a day will fetch a groat a year. 

3831 King : Art of Cookery. 



414 PITY — PLAGIARISM. 

PITY — see Charity, Compassion, Mercy. 
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, 
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms ! 

3832 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Thou kiiow'st no law of God nor man : 

No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity. 

3833 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Pity is the virtue of the law, 
And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 

3834 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Pity's akin to love ; and every thought 

Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. 

3835 Southern: Oroonoka. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Take her up tenderly, 
Lift her with care ; 
Fashioned so slenderly, 
Young, and so fair ! 

3836 Hood : Bridge of Sighs. 

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast 
Where love has been received a welcome guest. 

3837 Sheridan : Duenna. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad. 

3838 3Irs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. ix. Line 628. 

Pity speaks to grief 
More sweetly than a baud of instruments. 

3839 Barry Cornwall : The Florentine Party. 
O thou, the friend of man, assign'd 

With balmy hands his wounds to bind, 
And charm his frantic woe : 
When iirst Distress, with dagger keen, 
Broke forth to waste his destined scene, 
His wild unsated foe ! 

3840 Collins : Ode To Pity. 

PLAGIARISM —see Authors. 
The world's as full of curious wit 
Which those, that father, never writ, 
As 'tis of bastards, which the sot 
And cuckold owns, that ne'er begot. 

3841 Butler : Sat. on Plagiaries. Line 51 
Next, o'er his books his eyes began to roll, 

In pleasing memory of all he stole, 

How here he sipp'd, how there he plunder'd snug, 

And suck'd all o'er, like an industrious bug. 

3842 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 12Z 



PLEASURE. 415 

PLEASURE — see Extremes, Holidays, Home. 
All delights are vain ; and that most vain, 
Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. 

3813 Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Pleasure, and revenge, 
Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice 
Of any true decision. 

3811 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, 
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. 

3845 Tennyson: Palace of Art. 
Approach his awful throne by just degrees ; 

And. if thou would'st be happy, learn to please. 

3846 Prior: Solomon. Bk. ii. Line 266. 
Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, 

Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. 

381 7 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 91. 
Unmoved though witlings sneer, and rivals rail; 
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. 

3818 Dr. Johnson : Irene. Prologue. Line 29. 

But not e'en pleasure to excess is good : 
What most elates, then sinks the soul as low : 
When spring-tide joy pours in with copious flood, 
The higher still the exulting billows flow, 
The further back again they flagging go, 
And leave us grovelling on the dreary shore. 

3819 Thomson : Castle of Indolence. Canto i. St. 63. 

Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world, 
When pleasure treads the paths which reason shuns. 

3850 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 861. 
A man of pleasure is a man of pains. 

3851 Young: Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 800. 
God made all pleasures innocent. 

3852 Mrs. Norton : Lady of La Garaye. Pt. i. 
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, 
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure. 

3853 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 65. 

The evaporation of a joyous day, 
Is like the last glass of champagne, without 
The foam which made its virgin bumper gay ; 
Or like a system coupled with a doubt; 
Or like a soda bottle, when its spray 
Has sparkled and let half its spirit out; 
Or like a billow, left by storms behind, 
Without the animation of the wind. 
I 3851 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xvi. St. 9. 



HG PLEASURE — POET LA CREATE. 

But pleasures arc like poppies spread, — 
v ci seize the flower, its bloom is shed; 
Or like the snow falls in the river, — 
A moment white — then melts forever. 

3855 Burns: Tarn O'Shanter. Line 59. 
Pleasure that comes uulook'd for is thrice welcome. 

3856 Bogers : Italy (Interview). Line 1. 
Pleasure's delight it is 

That holdeth man from heaven's delightful bliss. 

3857 Robert Greene : A Maiden's Dream. 
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns 

to pain. 

3858 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz. Line 170. 
PLOUGH. 

In ancient times, the sacred plough employed 
The kings, and awful fathers of mankind: 
And some, with whom compared your insect tribes 
Are but the beings of a summer's da} r , 
Have held the scale of empire, ruled the storm 
Of mighty war; then, with victorious hand, 
Disdaining little delicacies, seized 
The plough, aud greatly independent scorned 
. All the vile stores corruption can bestow. 

3859 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 58. 

POET LAUREATE — see Poetry. 
In twice five years the " greatest living poet," 
Like to the champion in the fisty ring, 
Is called on to support his claim, or show it, 
Although 'tis an imaginary thing. 

3860 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto xi. St. 55. 
Even I — albeit I'm sure I did not know it, 

Nor sought of foolscap subjects to be king — 

Was reckoned, a considerable time, 

The grand Napoleon of the realms of rhyme. 

3861 Byron: Bon Juan. Canto xi. St. 55- 
He lied with such a fervor of intention — 

There was no doubt he earn'd his laureate pension. 

3862 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto iii St. 80 
O thou, whate'er thy name, thy trade, thy art, 

Who from obscurity art doom'd to start, 
Call'd, by the royal mandate, to proclaim 
To distant realms a monarch's feeble fame — 
For fame of kings, like cripples in the gout, 
Demands a crutch to move about — . 

3863 Peter Pindar: Ode to the Future Laureate. 
Laureates should boast a bushel of invention, 

Or yield up all poetical pretension. 

3864 Peter Pindar: Ode to the Future Laureate. 



POETRY. 417 

POETRY, POETS — see Imagination, Metre, Milton, Poet 
Laureate, Shakespeare. 
I would the gods had made thee poetical. 

3865 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, 

Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers ; 

I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd, 

Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree ; 

And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, 

Nothing so much as mincing poetry ; 

'Tis like the forc'd gait of a shuffling nag. 

3866 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Those that write in rhyme still make 

The one verse for the other's sake ; 
For one for sense, and one for rhyme, 
I thinks sufficient at one time. 

3867 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 27- 
For rhyme the rudder is of verses, 

With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 

3868 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 463. 
It is not poetry that makes men poor ; 

For few do write that were not so before ; 

And those that have writ best, had they been rich, 

Had ne'er been clapp'd with a poetic itch ; 

Had lov'd their ease too well to take the pains 

To undergo that drudgery of brains ; 

But being for all other trades unfit, 

Only t' avoid being idle set up wit. 

3869 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 441. 
As wine that with its own weight runs is best, 

And counted much more noble than the prest ; 
So is that poetry whose gen'rous strains 
Plow without servile study, art, or pains. 

3870 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 425. 
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, 

Could 5t be known what they discreetly blot. 

3871 Waller: Upon Roscommon's Trans, of Horace* De 

[Arte Poetica. 
Thespis, che first professor of our art, 
At country wakes, sung ballads from a cart. 

3872 Dryden : Prol. to Lee's Sophonisba. 
Hash author, 'tis a vain, presumptuous crime, 

To undertake the sacred art of rhyme ; 

If at thy birth the stars that ruled thy sense 

Shone not with a poetic influence; 

In thy strait genius thou wilt still be bound, 

Find Phoebus deaf, and Pegasus unsound. 

3873 Dryden: Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line I, 



418 POETRY. 

Whate'er you write of pleasant or sublime, 
Always let sense accompany your rhyme : 
Falsely they seem each other to oppose ; 
Rhyme must be made with reason's laws to close. 

387-4 Dryden : Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 27 

Poor slaves in metre, dull and addle-pated, 

Who rhyme below even David's Psalms translated. 

3875 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. ii. Line 402. 

Though Heaven made him poor, (with reverence speaking,) 

He never was a poet of God's making : 

The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull 

With this prophetic blessing — Be thou dull I 

Drink, swear, and roar, forbear no lewd delight, 

Fit for thy bulk; do anything but write. 

3876 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. ii. Line 474. 
Fame from science, not from fortune, draws. 

So poetry, Avhich is in Oxford made 
An art, in London only is a trade. 
There haughty dunces, whose unlearned pen 
Could ne'er spell grammar, would be reading men. 
Such build their poems the Lucretian way; 
. So many huddled atoms make a play ; 
And if they hit in order by some chance, 
They call that nature, which is ignorance. 

3877 Dryden : Prol. to the University of Oxford. Line 27. 

A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 
And turn delight into a sacrifice. 

3878 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 1. 
Pegasus, a nearer way to take, 

May boldly deviate from the common track. 

Prom vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, 
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 

3879 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 150. 

True ease in writing comes from art. not chance, 

As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 

'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, 

The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, 

And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; 

But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, 

The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar: 

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, 

The line too labors, and the words move slow : 

Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain. 

Plies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main. 

3880 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 162 



POETRY. 419 

Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," 
In the next line, it " whispers through the trees : " 
If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep," 
The reader's threaten' d (not in vain) "with sleep." 

3881 Pope-: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 150. 
"What woful stuff this madrigal would be, 

In some starved hackney sonnetteer, or me? 

But let a lord once own the happy lines, 

How the wit brightens ! how the style refines ! 

3882 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 218. 
The dog-star rages ! nay, 'tis past a doubt, 

All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out: 
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 
They rave, recite, and madden round the laud. 

3883 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 3. 
Is there a parson much be-mused in beer, 

A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, 

A clerk, foredoomed his father's soul to cross, 

"Who pens a stanza, when he should engross? 



All fly to Twit'nam, and in humble strain 
Apply to me, to keep them mad or vain. 

3884 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 15. 
As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. 

3885 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 127. 
Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, 

That tends to make one worthy man my foe, 
Give virtue scandal, innocence a fear, 
Or from the sof t-ey'd virgin steal a tear ! 

3886 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 283. 
He who now to sense, now nonsense, leaning, 

Means not, but blunders round about a meaning ; 

And he, whose fustian's so sublimely bad, 

It is not poetry, but prose run mad : 

All these, my modest satire bade translate, 

And owned that nine such poets made a Tate. 

3887 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 185. 
Let Envy howl, while heaven's whole chorus sings, 

And bark at honor not conf err'd by kings ; 
Let Flatfry sickening see the incense rise, 
Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies : 
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line, 
And makes immortal, verses as mean as mine. 

3888 Pope : Epil. to Satires. Dialogue ii. Line 242. 
Even copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, 

The last and greatest art, the art to blot. 

3889 Pope : Satire v. Line 280. 



420 POETRY. 

. Sages and chiefs long since had birth 
Ere Caesar was, or Newton named; 
Those raised new empires o'er the earth, 
And these new heavens and systems framed ; 
Vain was the chiefs', the sages' pride ! 
They had no poet, and they died. 

3890 Pope: Imit. of Horace. A Fragment. Bk. 4. Ode 9 

Sinking from thought to thought, a vast profound, 
Plunged for his sense, but found no bottom there; 
Then wrote, and flounder'd on, in mere despair. 

3891 Pope: Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 118. 

Now times are changed, and one poetic itch 
Has seiz'd the court and city, poor and rich : 
Sons, sires, and grandsires, all will wear the bays, 
Our wives read Milton, and our daughters plays ; 
To theatres and to rehearsals throng, 
And all our grace at table is a song. 

3892 ^Pope : Satire v. Line 169. 

Eising with Aurora's light, 

The Muse invoked, sit down to write ; 

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, 

Enlarge, diminish, interline; 

Be mindful, when invention fails, 

To scratch 3 r our head, and bite your nails. 

3893 Swift : On Poetry. Line 85. 

The bard, nor think too lightly that I mean 

Those little, piddling witlings, who o'erween 

Of their small parts, the Murphys of the stage, 

The Masons and the Whiteheads of the age, 

Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, 

And drawl out measured prose, which they call verse. 

3894 Churchill : Independence. Line 291. 
The poor poet 

Worships without reward, nor hopes to find 
A heaven save in his worship. 

3895 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i. 

Where go the poets' lines? 
Answer, ye evening tapers ! 
Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, 
Speak from your folded papers ! 

3896 " Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Poet's Lot. St. 3. 

The busy shuttle comes and goes 
Across the rhymes, and deftly weaves 
A tissue out of autumn leaves, 
With here a thistle, there a rose. 

3897 T. B. Aldrich : Cloth of Gold. Prelude. 



POETRY. 421 

A " poet " is a word soon said ; 
A book's a thing soon written. Nay, indeed, 
The more the poet shall be questionable, 
The more unquestionably comes his book ! 

There's more than passion goes to make a man, 
Or book, which is a man too. 

3898 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. v. Line 400 

I have been sojourning late 
Among the pleasant places of my Past, 
The green and quiet neighborhoods of Thought, 
Iu which I wandered in my wayward youth, 
With no companion but the constant Muse, 
"Who sought me when I needed her — ah, when 
Did I not need her, solitary else. 

3899 R. H. Stoddard: Poems. Proem. 

O ! 'tis an easie thing 

To write and sing ; 

But to write true, unfeigned verse 

Is very hard. 

3900 Henry Vaughan: Anguish. 
Poetry is 

The grandest chariot wherein king- thoughts ride ; — 
One who shall fervent grasp the sword of song 
As a stern swordsman grasps his keenest blade, 
To find the quickest passage to the heart. 

3901 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama. Sc. 2. 

Poems, like pictures, are of different sorts, 
Some better at a distance, others near; 
Some love the dark, some choose the clearest light, 
And boldly challenge the most piercing eye ; 
Some please for once, some will forever please. 

3902 Roscommon : Transl. Horace's Art of Poetry. Line 405. 

God is the Perfect Poet, 
Who in creation acts his own conceptions. 

3903 Robert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 2. 

In Spring the Poet is glad, 

And in Summer the Poet is gayf 

But in Autumn the Poet is sad, 

And has something sad to say: 

And the autumn songs of the Poet's soul 

Are set to the passionate grief 

Of Winds that sough and Bells that toll 

The Dirge of the Falling Leaf. 

3904 " Byron Forceythe Willson : Autumn Song 



422 POETRY. 

The source of each accordant strain 
Lies deeper than the Poet's brain. 
First from the people's heart must spring 
The passions which he learns to sing ; 
They are the wind, the harp is he, 
To voice their fitful melody, — 
The language of their varying fate, 
Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate, — 
The talisman which holds inwrought 
The touchstone of the listener's thought ; 
That penetrates each vain disguise, 
And brings his secret to his eyes. 

3905 Bayard Taylor: Amran's Wooing 

The Poet's license ! — 'tis the fee 
Of earth, and sky, and river 
To him who views them royally, 
To have and hold forever J 

3906 J. a. Saxe : The Poet's License. 
Can the poets, in the rapture 

Of their finest dreams, 
Paint the lily of the valley 
Fairer than she seems? 

3907 J. a. Saxe : Be Musa. 

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths 
And tell them ; and the truth of truths is love. 

3908 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Another and a Better World. 

Poetry is itself a thing of God ; 

He made His prophets poets, and the more 

We feel of poesy, do we become 

Like God in love and power — under-makers. 

3909 Bailey : Festus. Proem. Line 5. 

Poets live upon the living light 

Of nature and of beauty ; they love light. 

3910 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Home. 

All other trades demand, verse-makers beg ; 
A dedication is a wooden leg. 

3911 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iv. Line 191. 

There is a pleasure in poetic pains, 
Which only poets know. 

3912 Cowper: Tas/c. Bk. ii. Line 285. 

The poetry of earth is never dead. 

3913 Keats: Grasshopper and Cricket. 



i^. 



Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belon 
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. 

3914 Keats : Epis. to George Felton Mathews. 



pdETRY. 423 

Thou shalt believe in Milton. Dryden, Pope; 

Thou shalt not set up Wordsworth, Coleridge. Souther; 

Because the first is crazed beyond all hope. 

The second drunk, the third so quaint and mouther : 

With Crabbe it mar be difficult to cope. 

3915 Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 205. 

Ovid's a rake, as half his verses show him, 
Anacreon's morals are a still worse sample. 
Catullus scarcely has a decent poem, 
I don't think Sappho's Ode a good example, 
Although Longinus tells us there is no hymn. 
"Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample; 
But Virgil's songs are pure, except that horrid one 
Beginning with " Formosum Pastor Corydon." 

Lucretius' irreligion is too strong 
Tor early stomachs, to prore wholesome food; 
I can't help thinking Juvenal was wrong, 
Although no doubt his real intent was good, 
Tor speaking out so plainly in his song. 
So much, indeed, as to be downright rude • 
And then what proper person can be partial 
To all those nauseous epigrams of Martial? 

391G Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. Sts. i2 and 43. 

Kothing so difficult as a beginning 
In poesy, unless perhaps the end : 
Tor oftentimes when Pegasus seems winning 
The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend. 
Like Lucifer, when hurl'd from heareu for sinning ; 
Our sin the same, and hard as his to mend. 
Being pride, which leads the mind to soar too far. 
Till our own weakness shows us what we are. 

3917 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 1. 

All are not moralists, like Souther, when 
He prated to the world of •• Pantisocrasy ; " 
Or Wordsworth, unexcised. unhired. who then 
Season'd his peddler poems with democracy ; 
Or Coleridge, long before his flighty pen 
Lent to the Morning Post its aristocracy .- 
When he and Souther, following the same path, 
Espoused two partners (milliners, of Bath). 

Such names at present cut a conrict figure. 
The very Botany Bay in moral geography ; 
Their loyal treason, reuegado rigor. 
Are good manure for their more bare bio<rraphr. 

3918 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto^iii. Sts. 93 and 9-L 



424 POETRY. 

The rhyme obliges me to this ; sometimes 
Monarchs are less imperative than rhymes. 

3919 Byron: Don J nun. Canto v. St 77 

When the sons of song descend to trade, 
Their bays are sear, their former laurels fade. 
Let such forego the poet's sacred name, 
Who rack their brains for lucre not for fame. 

3920 Byron : English Bards. Line 174. 

Call it not vain : — they do not err, 
Who say, that, when the poet dies, 
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, 
And celebrates his obsequies ; 
Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, 
For the departed bard make moan ; 
That mountains weep in crystal rill ; 
That flowers in tears of balm distil ; 
Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, 
And oaks, in deeper groan, reply ; 
And rivers teach their rushing wave 
To murmur dirges round his grave. 

3921 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto v. St. 1. 

Ne'er 
Was flattery lost on poet's ear : 
A simple race ! they waste their toil 
For the vain tribute of a smile. 

3922 Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iv. St. 35. 

When some mad bard sits down to muse 

About the lilies and the clews, 

The grassy vales and sloping lawns, 

Fairies and satyrs, nymphs, and fauns, 

He's apt to think, he's apt to swear, 

That Cupid reigns not anywhere, 

Except in some sequestered village 

Where peasants live on truth and tillage ; 

That none are fair enough for witches 

But maids who frisk through dells and ditches ; 

That dreams are twice as sweet as dances, 

That cities never breed romances : 

That Beauty always keeps a cottage, 

And Purity grows pale on pottage. 

3923 Praed : Love at a Rout. 

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, 
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares. — 
The poets who on earth have made us heirs 
Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays. 

3924 Wordsworth: Personal Talk. 



P OL ITEXESS — POP ULARITY. 1 9 -, 

POLITENESS —.see Courtesy. 

Off goes his bonnet to an oyster wench. 
3925 Shaks. : Packard II. Act i. Sc. 4 

And when a lady's in the case, 

You know all other things giv r e place. 
392G Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 50. 

POLITICS— .see Ambition, Statesmen. 

Nothing's more dull and uegligent 

Than an old lazy government, 

That knows no interest of state, 

But such as serves a present strait, 

And, to patch up, or shift, will close, 

Or break alike with friends or foes : 

That runs behindhand, and has spent 

Its credit to the last extent ; 

And, the first time 'tis at a loss, 

Has not one true friend, nor one cross. 

3927 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 159. 
Fearfully wise he shakes his empty head, 

And deals out empires as he deals out thread. 

3928 Churchill: Night. Line 251. 
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, 

And news much older than their ale went round. 

3929 Goldsmith : Pes. Village. Line 223. 
POMP. 

What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? 
And, live we how we can, yet die we must. 

3930 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act v. 8c. 2. 
POPERY. 

For as the Pope, that keeps the gate 

Of heaven, wears three crowns of state; 

So he that keeps the gate of hell, 

Proud Cerb'rus, wears three heads as well : 

And. if the world has any troth, 

Some have been cauoniz'd in both. 

3931 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 661 
POPULARITY, POPULACE - see Mob, People. 

I love the people, 
But do not like to stage me to their eyes : 
Though it do well, I do not relish well 
Their loud applause, and aves vehement : 
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion 
That does affect it. 

3932 Shaks. : M. for M. Act i. Sc. L 
You would have thought the very windows spake, 

So many greedy looks of young and old 
Through casements darted their desiring eyes 
Upon his visage. 

3933 Shaks. : Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2. 



42-6 POPULARITY. 

Every wretch, pining and pale before 
Beholding him, plucks comfort from his looks: 
A largess universal, like the sun, 
His liberal eye doth give to every one, 
Thawing cold fear. 

3934 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iii. Chorus. 

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts : 
And that, which would appear offence in us, 
His countenance, like richest alchymy, 
Will change to virtue and to worthiness. 

3935 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i. Sc. 3, 

Your affections are 
A sick man's appetite, who desires most that 
Which would increase his evil. He that depends 
Upon your favor, swims with fins of lead, 
And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang ye ! Trust ye? 
With every minute you do change a mind ; 
And call him noble that was now your hate, 
Him vile that was your garland. 

393G ~ Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 1. 

You common cry of curs ! whose breath I hate 
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize 
As the dead carcases of unburieel men 
That do corrupt my air. 

3937 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Our slippery people, 
(Whose love is never link'd to the deserver 
Till his deserts are past.) 

3938 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd, 
And paid the salutations of the crowd. 

3939 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 689. 

Almighty crowd, thou shortenest all dispute ; 

Power is thy essence, wit thy attribute ! 

Nor faith nor reason make thee at a stay, 

Thou leapest o'er all eternal truths in thy Pindaric way. 

3940 Dry den : Medal. Line 91 

His joy concealed, he sets himself to show; 
On each side bowing popularly low : 
His looks, his gestures, and his words he frames, 
And with familiar ease repeats their names, 
Thus formed by nature, furnished out with arts, 
He glides unfelt into their secret hearts. 

3941 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 688. 



POPULARITY — POSSESSION. 427 

Oh, popular applause ! what heart of man 

Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? 

The wisest and the best feel urgent need 

Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales ; 

But swell'd into a gust — who then, alas ! 

With all his canvas set, and inexpert, 

And therefore heedless, can withstand thy power? 

3942 Coirper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 48L 

Some shout him, and some hang upon his car 

To gaze in his eyes and bless him. Maidens wave 

Their 'kerchiefs, and old women weep for joy: 

"While others not so satisfied, unhorse 

The gilded equipage, and turning loose 

His steeds, usurp a place thev well deserve. 

3943 Gowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 708. 

PORTRAITS — see Beauty. 

But her eyes. — 
How could he see to do them? having made one, 
Methinks, it should have power to steal both his, 
Aud leave itself unfurnish'd. 

3944 Shafcs. : Mer, of Venire. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

What find I here? 
Fair Portia's counterfeit? What demi-god 
Hath come so near creation? 

3945 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

POSSESSION. 

What we have we prize not to the worth. 
Whiles we enjoy it ; but being lacked and lost, 
Why then we rack the value, then we find 
The virtue that possession would not show us 
Whiles it was ours. 

3946 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Women are angels, wooing: 
Things won are done, jov's soul lies in the doinu - . 

3947 Shaks. : Trail, and Cress. Act i. Sc. 2. 

The sweets we wish for. turn to loathed sours, 
Even in the moment that Ave call them ours. 

3948 Shaks. : R. of Lucrece. Line 867, 

Thus have I had thee, as a dream doth flatter, 
In sleep a king, but waking, no such matter. 

3949 Shaks.: Sonnet Ixxxvii 

Possession means to sit astride of the world. 
Instead of having it astride of you. 

3950 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 2. 



428 POSSIBILITY — POVERTY 

POSSIBILITY. 

All may do, what has by man been done. 

3951 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 606. 

POVERTY— see Apparel, Charity, Compassion, Death, Want. 
His rawbone cheeks through penury and pine 
Were shrunk into his jaws, as he did never dine. 

3952 Spenser: Faerie Queene. Bk. i. Canto ix. St. 35. 
My poverty, but not my will, consents. 

3953 Shales. : Rom. and Jul. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, 

And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks, 
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, 
Content and beggary hang upon thy back, 
The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. 

3954 Shales. : Rom. and Jul. Act v. Sc. L 
A hungry lean-faced villain, 

A mere anatomy, a mountebank, 
A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller; 
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 
A living dead man. 

3955 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Want is a bitter and a hateful good, 

Because its virtues are not understood : 
Yet many things, impossible to thought, 
Have been by need to full perfection brought. 

3956 Dryden : Wife of Bath. Line 473. 
If we from wealth to poverty descend, 

Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. 

3957 Dryden : Wife of Bath. Line 485. 
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, 

Slow rises worth by poverty depressed. 

3958 Dr. Johnson : London. Line 166. 
But poverty, with most who whimper forth 

Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe ; 
The effect of laziness, or sottish waste. 

3959 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 429. 
Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, 

And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few. 

3960 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 397. 
The poor alone are outcasts ; they who risked 

All they possessed for liberty, and lost ; 

And wander through the world without a friend, 

Sick, comfortless, distressed, unknown, uncaredfor. 

3961 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. i. 4. 
Most wretched men 

Are cradled into poetry by wrong. 

They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 

3962 Shelley: Julian and Maddalo 



POWER— PRAISE. 42S 

POWER — see Mercy. 

Sovereign power is too depressed or high, 
When kings are forced to sell, or crowds to buy. 

3963 Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 896. 
What can power give more than food and drink, 
To live at ease, and not be bound to think? 

3961 Dryden : Medal. Line 235. 

Calm and serene he drives the furious blast, 
And. pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, 
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm. 

3965 Addison : Campaign. Line 29C. 
Power, like a desolating pestilence, 

Pollutes whate'er it touches ; and obedience, 
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, 
Makes slaA'es of men, and of the human frame, 
A mechanized automaton. 

3966 Shelley : Queen Mab. Pt. iii. 
The good old rule 

Sufficeth them, the simple plau, 

That they should take who have the power, 

And they should keep who can. 

3967 Wordsworth : Bob Boy's Grave. 
He hath no power who hath not power to use. 

3968 Bailey : Festus. Sc. A Visit. 

PRAISE — see Flattery. 

Who would ever care to do brave deed, 

Or strive in virtue others to excel, 

If none should yield him his deserved meed 

Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? 

For if good were not praised more than ill, 

None would choose goodness of his own free will. 

3969 Spenser: Tears of the Muses. Line 451. 
Praising what is lost, 

Makes the remembrance dear. 

3970 Shaks. : All's Well. Act v. Sc. 3 
Who will believe my verse in time to come, 

If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? 

3971 Shaks. : Sonnet xvij 
To things of sale a seller's praise belongs. 

3972 Shaks. : Love's L.Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3 

The worthiness of praise distaius his worth, 

If that the praised himself bring the praise forth. 

3973 Shaks. : froil. and Cress. Act i. Sc. 3 
It matters not how false, or forc'd, 

So the best things be said o' the worst. 
3971 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 627 



430 PRAISE. 

They that do write in author's praises, 
And freely give their friends their voices, 
Are not confiued to what is true; 
That's not to give, but pay a due : 
For praise that's due does give no more 
To worth, than what it had before ; 
But to commend without desert 
Requires a mastery of art, 
That sets a gloss on what's amiss, 
And writes what should be, not what is. 

3975 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 449. 
The rising winds 

And falling springs, 

Birds, beasts, all things 

Adore him in their kinds. 

Thus all is hurl'd 

In sacred hymns and order, the great chime 

And symphonjr of nature. 

3976 Henry Vaughan : The Morning Watch 
Solid pudding against empty praise. 

3977 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 54. 
Some praise at morning what they blame at night, 

But always think the last opinion right. 

3978 Pope : E. on Criticism. Ft. ii. Line 230. 

To what base ends, and by what abject ways 
Are mortals urged through sacred lust of praise. 

3979 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 320. 
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, 

Are lost on hearers that our merits know. 

3980 Pope : Iliad. Bk. x. Line 293. 
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, 

Reigns, more or less, and glows, in ev'ry heart : 
The proud, to gain it, toils on toils endure ; 
The modest shun it, but to make it sure. 

3981 Young : Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 49. 
What we admire we praise ; and when we praise, 
Advance it into notice, that its worth 
Acknowledged, others may admire it too. 

3982 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 700. 
The name, that dwells on every tongue, 

No minstrel needs. 

3983 Longfelloia : Coplas de Manrique. St. 54. 
Ye, who would in aught excel, 

Ponder this simple maxim well, 
A wise man's censure may appall, 
But a fool's praise is worst of all. 

3984 Bohn Ms, 



PRAYER. 431 

PRAYER — see Deity, Ignorance, Religion. 
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : 
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. 

3985 SJiaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
If you bethink yourself of any crime, 

Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, 
Solicit for it straight. 

3986 Shaks, : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Let never day nor night uuhallow'd pass, 

But still remember what the Lord hath done. 

3987 Shafts. : 2 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
If by prayer 

Incessant I could hope to change the will 

Of him who all things can, I would not cease 

To weary him with my assiduous cries; 

But prayer against his absolute decree 

No more avaiiS than breath against the wind 

Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth : 

Therefore to his great bidding I submit. 

3988 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xL Line 307. 
His pure thoughts were borne 

Like fumes of sacred incense o'er the clouds, 
And wafted thence on angels' wings, through w T ays 
Of light, to the bright source of all. 

3989 Congreve : Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8. 
Father of all ! in every age, 

In every clime, adored, 

By saint, by savage, and by sage, 

Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! 

Thou Great First Cause, least understood, 

Who all my sense confined 

To know but this, that Thou art good, 

And that myself am blind. 

3990 Pope : Universal Prayer. 
I was not born for courts or great affairs ; 

I pay my debts, believe, and say my prayers. 

3991 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 267, 
Prayer ardent opens heaven- lets down a stream 

Of glory on the consecrated hour 

Of man, in audience with the Deity : 

Who worships the great God, that instant joins 

The first in heaven, and sets his foot on hell. 

3992 Young : Night Tlioughis. Night viii. Line 738. 
Pray thou for me. The common air 

Will stronger, purer seem to be, 

And all the world will grow more fair, — 

Pray thou for me. 

3993 Mary Clemmer : Pray Thou for Me 



132 PRAYER. 

He prayeth best who loveth best 
All things both great aucl small; 
For the dear God who loveth us, 
He made and loveth all. 

3994 Coleridge : Ancient Mariner. Pt. vfi, 
God grant me grace my prayers to say : 

O God ! preserve my mother dear, 
In strength and health for man}' a year ; 
And ! preserve 1113^ father too, 
And may I pay him reverence due ; 
And may I my best thoughts employ 
To be nry parents' hope and joy; 
And ! preserve my brothers both 
From evil doings, and from sloth, 
And may we always love each other, 
Our friends, our father, and our mother, 
And still, O Lord, to me impart 
An innocent and grateful heart, 
That after my last sleep I may 
Awake to thy eternal day ! Amen. 

3995 Coleridge : Child's Evening Prayer. 
sad estate 

Of human wretchedness! so weak is man, 
So ignorant and blind, that did not God 
^Sometimes withhold in meixw what we ask, 
We should be ruin'd at our own request. 

3996 Hannah More : Moses. Pt. i. 
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. 

3907 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Elsewhere. 

Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd 
Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours 
'Twixt heaven aucl us. The manna was not good 
After sun-rising; far-day sullies flowers. 
Rise to prevent the sun ; sleep cloth sins glut, 
And heaven's gate opens when this world's is shut. 

3998 Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons. 
"When first thy ej^es unveil, give thy soul leave 

To clo the bke ; our bodies but forerun 

The spirit's duty. True hearts spread and heave 

Unto their God, as flow'rs do to the sun. 

Give him thy first thoughts then ; so shalt thou keep 

Him company all day, and in him sleep. 

3999 Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons. 
Prayer is 

The world in tune, 

A spirit- voice, 

And vocal joj r s, 

Whose Echo is heaven's bliss. 

4000 Henry Vaughan : The Morning Watch. 



PR A YER — PRE J I'D I CE. 433 

A good man's prayers 
Will from the deepest dungeon climb Heaven's height 
And bring a blessing down. 

4001 Joanna Baillie : Ethwald. Pt. ii. Act iv. Sc. 3 
Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, 

The Christian's native air ; 

His watchword at the gates of death, — 

He enters heaven with prayer. 

4002 James Montgomery : What is Prayer. 
More things are wrought by prayer 

Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice 
Eise like a fountain for me night and day. 
For what are men better than sheep or goats 
That nourish a blind life within the brain, 
If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer 
Both for themselves and those who call them friend? 

4003 Tennyson :' Morte cV Arthur. Line 247. 
In desert wilds, in midnight gloom; 

In grateful joy, in trying pain; 

In laughing youth, or nigh the tomb ; 

Oh ! when is prayer unheard or vain? 

4004 Eliza Cook: Prayer. 

PREACHING- — see Clerg-y, Presbyterians, Priests, Puritans, 
Sermons. 
Jest not at preacher's language or expression : 
How know'st thou but thv sins made him miscarry? 

4005 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 74. 
"Who prove their doctrine orthodox, 

Bv apostolic blows and knocks. 

4006 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 199. 

PRECAUTION — see Caution. 
You should have feared false times, when you did feast; 
Suspect still comes where an estate is least 

4007 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
"When we mean to build, 

We first survey the plot, then draw the model; 
And when we see the figure of the house, 
Then must we rate the cost of the erection. 

4008 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. a 
PREJUDICE, PREPOSSESSION. 

The difference is as great between 
The optics seeing, as the objects seen. 
All manners take a tincture from our own; 
Or come discolor'd through our passions shown; 
Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, 
Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes. 

4009 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 81, 



434 PRE SB YTERIANS — PRIDE. 

PRESBYTERIANS — see Puritans, Sects. 
A sect, whose chief devotion lies 
In odd perverse antipathies : 
In falling out with that or this, 
And finding somewhat still amiss : 
More peevish, cross, and splenetick, 
Thau dog distract, or monkey sick : 
That with more care keep holy-day 
The wrong, than others the right way : 
Compound for sins they are inclin'cl to, 
By damning those they have no mind to : 
Still so perverse and opposite. 
As if they worshipp'd God for spite. 

4010 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 207. 

PRESENT, The. 

Something beyoud ! The immortal morning stands 
Above the night, clear shines her prescient brow ; 
The pendulous star in her transfigured hands 
Lights up the Now. 

4011 Mary Clemmer : Something Beyond. 
The Present, the Present is all thou hast 

For thy sure possessing; 

Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast 

Till it gives its blessing. 

4012 Whittier: My Soul and I. St. 34. 

PRESS — see Journalists, News, Printing". 

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address, 

Thou god of our idolatry, the Press? 

By thee, religion, liberty, and laws, 

Exert their influence, and advance their cause : 

By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell, 

Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell; 

Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise, 

Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies, 
, Like Eden's dread probationary tree, 

Knowledge of good and evil is from thee ! 

4013 Cowper: Progress of Error. Line 460. 
Did Charity prevail, the press would prove 

A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love. 

4014 Cowper : Charity. Line 624. 

PRIDE — see Authority, Humility. 
A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place. 
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd. 

4015 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc 4 



PRIDE. 435 

Harsh rage, 
Defect of manners, want of government. 
Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain : 
The least of which, haunting a nobleman, 
Loseth men's hearts. 

4016 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Over-proud, 

And under-honest; in self-assumption greater, 
Than in the note of judgment. 

4017 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act ii. Sc. 3, 
Pride hath no other glass 

To show itself, but pride ; for supple knees 
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. 

4018 Shaks. Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
You speak o' the people as if you were a god 

To punish : not a man of their infirmity. 

4019 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

But this lies all within the will of God, 
To whom I do appeal ! 

4020 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Sc. 2. 

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: 
I think the Eomans call it stoicism. 

4021 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Hot insolent is upstart pride ! 
Haclst thou not thus, with insult vain, 
Provok'd my patience to complain, 
I had conceal 'd thy meaner birth, 
Nor trac'd thee to the scum of earth. 

4022 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 24. 

Whatever Nature has in worth denied, 

She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; 

For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find, 

What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : 

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, 

And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 

4023 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 5. 

Of all the causes which conspire to blind 
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, 
What the weak head with strongest bias rules, 
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 

4024 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 1. 

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; 
All quit their sphere, and rush iuto the skies ; 
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. 

4025 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 123= 



43 6 PRIDE — PRINTING. 

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine; 
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, "lis formine: 
For me kind nature wakes her genial power, 
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower. 

4026 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 131 
Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer, 

To boast a splendid banquet once a year. 

4027 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 277. 
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye. 

I see the lords of humankind pass by. 

4028 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 327. 
As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so, 

One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show ; — 
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in, 
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. 

4029 Goldsmith : Haunch of Venison. Line 9. 

Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault) 
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. 
The men who labor and digest things most, 
Will be much apter to despond than boast. 

4030 Roscommon : Essay on Translated Verse. Line 161. 

PRIESTS. 

Led so grossly by this meddling priest, 
Dreading the curse that money may buy out. 

4031 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Priests of all religions are the same, 

Of whatsoe'er descent their godhead be, 
Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree. 

4032 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 99. 
Perhaps thou wert a priest, — if so, my struggles 

Are vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles. 

4033 Horace Smith : To a Mummy. St. 4. 

PRINCES — see Kings, Royalty. 

Princes are the glass, the school, the book, 
Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look. 

4034 Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 615. 

PRINTING — see Books, Press. 

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind 
To stamp a lasting image of the mind ! 
Beasts may convey, aud tuneful birds may sing, 
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring; 
But Man alone has skill and power to send 
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend; 
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise 
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. 

4035 Crabbe : The Library. Line 69. 



PRISON— PROGRESS. 437 

PRISON. 

Stoue walls do not a prison make, 
Nor iron bars a cage ; 
Minds innocent and quiet, take 
That for an hermitage 

4036 Lovelace : To Althea, from Prison, iv. 
PROBABILITY. 

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, 
Keep probability in view. 

4037 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 18. 
PROCRASTINATION. 

Procrastination is the thief of time : 
Year after year it steals, till all are fled, 
And to the mercies of a moment leaves 
The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 

4038 Young : Night TJwughis. Xight i. Line 393. 
PRODIGIES. 

The spring, the summer, 
The chilling autumn, angry winter, change 
Their wonted liveries ; and the mazed world, 
By their increase, now knows not which is which. 
*4039 Shales. : Mid. X. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 2 

Can such things be, 
And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 
Without our special wonder? 

4040 Shahs. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
At my nativity, 

The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, 
Of burning cressets : and, at my birth, 
The frame and huge foundation of the earth 
Shak'd like a coward. 

4041 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
When these prodigies 

Do so conjointly meet, let not men say 
" These are their reasons, — They are natural; " 
For, I believe, they are portentous things 
Unto the climate that they point upon. 

4042 Shahs. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i. Sc. 3. 

PROGRESS — see Cause and Effect. 
Thus far into the bowels of the land 
Have we march'd on without impediment. 

4043 Shahs. : Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of 

the suns. 

4044 Tennyson: Lochsley Hall. St. 69. 



438 PROLOG UE — PR OF. 

PROLOGUE. 
Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse, 
As undertakers walk before the hearse. 

4045 Garrick : Apprentice. Prologue 

PROMISES. 

His promises fly so beyond his state, 

That what he speaks is all in debt ; he owes for every word ; 

He is so kind, that he now pays interest for 't: 

His lands put to their books. 

404G Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers : 
You taught me first to beg; and now, methinks, 
You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd. 

4047 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
His promises were, as he then was, mighty; 

But his performance, as he is now, nothing. 

4048 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens, 

That one clay bloom'cl, and fruitful were the next. 

4049 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. f>. 
A little fire is quickly trodden out ; 

Which, being suffer' d, rivers cannot quench. 

4050 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 8. 
That we would do, 

We should do when we would ; for this vjould changes, 

And hath abatements and delays as many, 

As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; 

And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, 

That hurts by easing. 

4051 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late, 

Some lucky revolution of their fate : 
Whose motions, if we watch and guide with skill, 
(For human good depends on human will,) 
Our fortune rolls as from a smooth descent, 
And from the first impression takes the bent : 
But, if unseized, she glides away like wind, 
And leaves repenting folly far behind. 

4052 Dry den : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 252, 

PROOF. Giye me the ocular pr00 f . 



Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it, 
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop, 
To hang a doubt on. 
4053 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



PROPHECY — PROSPERITY. 439 



PROPHECY. 
There is a history in all men's lives, 
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd ; 
The which observed, a man may prophesy, 
With a near aim, of the main chance of tilings 
As yet not come to life; which in their seeds, 
And w T eak beginnings, lie in treasured. 

4054 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Coming events cast their shadows before. 

4055 Campbell : LochieVs Warning. 

PROSELYTES —see Converts. 

The greatest saints and sinners have been made 
Of proselytes of one another's trade. 

4056 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 315. 
More proselytes and converts use t' accrue 

To false persuasions, than the right and true; 

For error and mistake are infinite, 

But truth has but one way to be i' th' right. 

4057 Butler: Misc. Thoughts. Line 113. 

Married at last, and finding charge come faster, 
He could not live by God, but changed his master : 
Inspired by want, was made a factious tool; 
They got a villain, and we lost a fool. 
Still violent, whatever cause he took, 
But most against the party he forsook. 
For renegacloes, who, ne'er turn by halves, 
Are bound in conscience to be double knaves. 
So this prose prophet took most monstrous pains 
To let his master see he earned his gains. 

4058 Dnjden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. ii. Line 360. 
PROSPERITY. 

Prosperity's the very bond of love ; 

Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together 

Affliction alters. 

4059 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3, 
Oh, what a world of vile, ill-favor'd faults 

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year ! 

4060 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear: 

As seas clo laugh, show white, when rocks are near. 

4061 Webster: White Devil. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Surer to prosper than prosperity 

Could have assured us. 

4062 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 39. 
O how portentous is prosperity ! 

How, comet-like, it threatens, while it shines ! 

4063 Young: Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 915. 



440 PROVIDENCE. 

PROVIDENCE— see Deity, Fate, God, Heaven. 
But Heaven lnith a hand in these events ; 
To whose high will we bound our calm contents. 

4064 Shaks. : Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2. 
We, ignorant of ourselves, 

Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers 
Deny us for our good; so find we profit, 
By losing of our prayers. 

4065 Shaks. : Ant. and Clco. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 

4066 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2. 
I must not quarrel with the will 

Of highest dispensation, which herein, 
Haply had ends above my reach to know. 

4067 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 69. 
What in me is dark 

Illumine, what is low raise and support ; 
That, to the height of this great argument, 
I may assert Eternal Providence 
And justify the ways of God to men. 

4068 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 22. 
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate, 

Puzzled in mazes, and perplex'cl with errors : 
Our understanding traces them in vain, 
Lost and bewilder'd in the fruitless search ; 
Nor sees with how much art the windings run, 
Nor where the regular confusion ends. 

4069 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 1. 
If piety be thus debarr'd access 

On high ; and of good men, the very best 
Is singled out to bleed, and bear the scourge, 
What is reward? or what is punishment? 
But who shall dare to tax eternal justice? 

4070 Congreve : Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, 

If all are equal in their happiness : 

But mutual wants this happiness increase; 

All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. 

4071 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 53. 
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, 

Alike in what it gives, and what denies? 

4072 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 205. 
All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; 

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; 

All discord, harmony not understood; 

All partial evil, universal good : 

And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, 

One thing is clear, Whatever is, is right. 

4073 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 289. 



PROVIDENCE. 441 

But every human path leads on to God ; 
He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, 
And strong as holy wishes, drawing us 
With delicate tension upward to Himself. 

4074 E. C. Stedman : Protest of Faith, Line 45, 
Nothing with God can be accidental. 

4075 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend, Ft, \r. 
God smiles as he has always smiled ; 

Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, 

Ere stars were thuudergirt, or piled 

The Heavens, God thought on me his child ; 

Ordained a life for me, arrayed 

Its circumstances, every one 

To the minutest ; ay, God said 

This head this hand should rest upon 

Thus, ere he fashioned star or sun. 

4076 Robert Browning : Madhouse Cell. Pt, i. 
There is a Power whose care 

Teaches thy way. 

4077 William Cullen Bryant : To a Waterfowl, 
I know not where His islands lift 

Their fronded palms in air; 
I only know I cannot drift 
Beyond His love and care. 

4078 Wliittier : Eternal Goodness. St. 20. 
Somewhat of goodness, something true 

From sun and spirit shining through 
All faiths, all worlds, as through the dark 
Of ocean shines the lighthouse spark, 
Attests the presence everywhere 
Of love and providential care. 

4079 Whittier : Miriam. Line 421. 
All which is real now remaineth, 

And fadeth never : 

The hand which upholds it now sustaineth 

The soul forever. 

4080 Whittier : My Soul and I. St. 42. 
God's errands never fail ! 

4081 Whittier : Mantle of St. John de Matha. St. 11. 
Through heaven and earth 

God's will moves freely, and I follow it, 

As color follows light. He overflows 

The firmamental walls with deity, 

Therefore with love ; His lightnings go abroad, 

His pity may do so, His angels must, 

Whene'er He gives them charges. 

4082 Mrs. Browning : A Drama of Exile. Sc. Outer Side of 

[the Gate of Eden, 



442 PR 1 1DENCE — PR UDER Y. 

God's hours are never late. 

4083 Helen Hunt: A Christmas Symphony. 

That's best 
Which God sends. 'Twas His will : it is mine. 

4084 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 29. 

Happy the man who sees a God employ'd 
In all the good and ill that checker life ! 

4085 Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 161. 

Yes, Thou art ever present, Power supreme ! 

Not circumscrib'd by time, nor flx'd to space, 

Coufln'd to altars, nor to temples bound. 

In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, 

In dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee ! 

4086 Hannah More : Belshazzar. Pt. i. 

PRUDENCE — see Conduct, Discretion, Feasting-. 
When we mean to build, 
We first survey the plot, then draw the model: 
And when we see the figure of the house, 
Then must we rate the cost of the erection : 
Which, if we find outweighs ability, 
What do we then but draw anew the model 
In fewer offices ; or, at least, desist 
To build at all? 

4087 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act i, Sc. 3. 

Henceforth His might we know, and know our own, 
So as not either to provoke, or dread 
New war, provoked. — 

4088 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 643. 

He knows the compass, sail, and oar, 
Or never launches from the shore ; 
Before he builds computes the cost, 
And in no proud pursuit is lost. 

4089 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 5 

PRUDERY. 

Yon ancient prude, whose wither' d features show 

She might be young some forty years ago, 

Her elbows pinion'cl close upon her hips, 

Her head erect, her fan upon her lips, 

Her eyebrows arch'd, her eyes both gone astray 

To watch yon amorous couple in their play. 

With bony and unkerchief'd neck defies 

The rude inclemency of wintry skies, 

And sails, with lappet-head and mincing airs, 

Duly at chink of bell to morning prayers. 

4090 Cowper: Truth. Line 13L 



PUNISHMEXT— P URPvSE. 443 



PUNISHMENT. 
Nor custom, nor example, nor vast numbers 
Of such as do offend, make less the sin ; 
For each particular crime a strict account 
Will be exacted; and that comfort, which 
The damn'd pretend, fellows in misery, 
Takes nothing from their torments : every one 
Must suffer in himself the measure of 
His wickedness. 

4091 Massinger: Picture. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Love is a boy by poets styl'd, 

Then spare the rod, and spoil the child. 

4092 Butler: Budibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 843. 

Justice wake, and Rigor take her time, 

For, lo ! our mercy is become our crime. 

While halting Punishment her stroke delays, 

Our sovereign right, heaven's sacred trust, decays ! 

Right lives by law, and law subsists by power ; 
Disarm the shepherd, wolves the flock devour. 

4093 Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. ii. Line 733 

PURITANS — see Presbyterians. 
A lawless linsey-woolsey brother, 
Half of one order, half another; 
A creature of amphibious nature, 
On land a beast, a fish in water : 
That always preys on grace or sin ; 
A sheep without, a wolf within. 

4094 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1227. 

PURITY— see Chastity, Modesty. 

A spirit pure as hers, 
Is always pure, even while it errs : 
As sunshine, broken in the rill, 
Though turned astray, is sunshine still. 

4095 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Fire-Worshippers. 

'Tis said the lion will turn and flee 
From a maid in the pride of her purity. 

4096 Byron: Siege of Corinth. St. 21. 

PURPOSE. 
^Make thick my blood, 

Stop up the access and passage to remorse ; 
That no compunctious visiiings of nature 
Shake mv fell purpose. 

4097 ' Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 5. 



444 PURPOSE — QUAKERS. 

I do believe, you think what now you speak : 

But, what we do determine oft we break. 

Purpose is but the slave to memory ; 

Of violent birth, but poor validity : 

Which now, like fruits unripe, sticks on the tree, 

But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be 

What to ourselves in passion we propose, 
The passion ending, cloth the purpose lose. 

4098 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1 

PURSUIT— see Anticipation. 

All things that are, 
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy' cl. 

4099 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 6. 



Q. 

QUACKS — see Doctors. 

Out, you imposters ! 
Quack-salving cheating mountebanks ! — your skill 
Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. 

4100 Massinger : Virgin-Martyr. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, 

Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; 
These first induce him the vile trash to try, 
Then lend his name that other men may buy. 

4101 Crabbe : Borough. Letter vii. Line 124. 
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, 

The daring tribe compound their boasted trash — 
Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill : 
All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill ; 

There are among them those who cannot read, 

And yet they'll buy a patent and succeed ; 

Will dare to promise dying sufferers aid, 

For who, when dead, can threaten or upbraid? 

With cruel avarice still they recommend 

More draughts, more syrup to the journey's end. 

4102 Crabbe : Borough. Letter vii. Line 75. 

QUAKERS — see Religion. 

Quakers, that like to lanterns, bear 

Their light within them, will not swear; 

Their gospel is an accidence, 

By which they construe conscience, 

And hold no sin so deeply red 

As that of breaking Priscian's head. 

4103 Butter: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 219. 



Q UAKERS — Q UO TA TION. 44o 

Upright Quakers please both man and God. 

4104 Pope: Dunciad. Bk. iv. Lino 2( 3. 

QUARRELS — see Argument. Conscience, Disputes. 
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. 

4105 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act r. Sc. 1. 
Beware 

Of entrance to a quarrel: "but. being in, 
Bear t that the opposed rnav beware of thee. 

4106 * Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 
If I can fasten but oue cup upon him. 

With that which he hath drank to-uight already, 
He'll be as full of quarrel and offence 
As mv young mistress' dog. 

4107 * Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
They who in quarrels interpose. 

Must often wipe a bloody nose. 

4108 Gay: Fables. Pt. i. Fable 34. 
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stand-. 

4109 Sheridan : Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

QUICKNESS. 

With too much quickness ever to be taught ; 
With too much thinking to have common thought. 

4110 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 97. 

QUIET. 

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 

4111 Byron : Oh. Harold. Canto iii. St. 42. 
Xo stir of air was there. 

Xot so much life as on a summer's day 

Bobs not one light seed from the feather'd grass, 

But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest. 

4112 Keats: Hyperion. Bk. i. Line 7. 

QUOTATION — see Plagiarism. 
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 

4113 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote. 

And thiuk they grow immortal as they quote. 
To patch-work learn'd quotation- are allied: 
But strive to make our poverty our pride. 

4114 Young: Love of Fame. Satire i. Line -1. 
'Twas counted learning once and wit 

To void but what some author writ ; 
And when men understood by rote 
By as implicit sense to quote*. 

4115 Butter : Sat. upon Plagiaries. Line 99. 



446 QUOTATION— RAIN. 

Then why should those who pick and choose 

The best of all the best compose, 

And join it hy mosaic art, 

In graceful order, part to part, 

To make the whole in beauty suit, 

Not merit as complete repute 

As those who, with less art and pains, 

Can do it with their native braius. 

4116 Butler: Sat. on Plagiaries. Line 109. 
He ranged his tropes, and preached up patience; 
Backed his opinion with quotations. 

4117 Prior : Paulo Pur ganti and His Wife. Line 143. 

Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations 
By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations. 

4118 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 103. 



R. 

BAIN. 

How it pours, pours, pours, 

In a never-ending sheet! 

How it drives beneath the doors ! 

How it soaks the passer's feet! 

How it rattles on the shutter ! 

How it rumples up the lawn ! 

How 'twill sigh, and moan, and mutter, 

Prom darkness until dawn. 

4119 Bossiter Johnson i Rhyme of the Rain. 

How beautiful is the rain ! 

After the dust and heat, 

In the broad and fiery street, 

In the narrow lane, 

How beautiful is the rain ! 

How it clatters along the roofs, 

Like the tramp of hoofs ! 

How it gushes and struggles out 

From the throat of the overflowing spout. 

4120 Longfellow : Rain in Summer. Sts. 1 and 2. 
The rain comes when the wind calls. 

4121 Emerson : Wooclnotes. Pt. ii. Line 271. 
'Twas so ; I saw thy birth. That drowsy lake 

Prom her faint bosom breath'd thee, the disease 

Of her sick waters, and infectious ease. 

But now at even, 

Too gross for heaven, 

Thou fall'st in tears, and weep'st for thy mistake. 

4122 Henry Vaughan : The Shower, 



RAIN— RAINBOW. 447 

Last night, above the whistling wind, 

I heard the welcome rain, — 

A fusillade upon the roof, 

A tattoo on the pane : 

The keyhole piped; the chimney-top 

A warlike trumpet blew. 

4123 Bret Harte : A Sanitary Message. 
The clouds consign their treasures to the fields ; 

And, softly shaking on the dimpled pool 
Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow, 
In large effusion, o'er the freshen'd world. 

4124 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 198. 

The mighty Rain 
Holds the vast empire of the sky alone. 

4125 William Cullen Bryant : A Bain Dream. 

BAINBOW-see Sky. 

Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er 
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter ; 
Who, with thy saffron wings, upon nry flowers 
Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; 
And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown 
My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down, 
Rich scarf to my proud earth. 

4126 Shaks. : Tempest. Act iv. 3c. 1. 
When thou dost shine, darkness looks white and fair, 
Forms turn to music, clouds to smiles and air; 

Rain gently spends his honey-drops, and pours 
Balm on the cleft earth, milk on grass and flowers. 
Bright pledge of peace and sunshine ! 

4127 Henry Vaughan : The Rainbow. 
Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, 
Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow 

Shoots up immense; and every hue unfolds, 
In fair proportion, running from the red 
To where the violet fades into the sky. 

4128 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 228. 
What skilful limner ere could choose 

To paint the rainbow's varying hues, 

Unless to mortal it were given 

To clip his brush in dyes of heaven. 

4129 Scott: Marmion. Canto vi. St. 5, 
That gracious thing made up of tears and light. 

4130 Coleridge : Tico Founts. St. 5. 
'Tis sweet to listen as the night-winds creep 

"From leaf to leaf : 'tis sweet to view on high 
The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. 

4131 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 122. 



448 RAINBO W— RANK. 

JN'ow overhead a rainbow, bursting through 

The scattering clouds, shone, spanning the dark sea, 

Resting its bright base on the quivering blue, 

And all within its arch appear'd to be 

Clearer than that without, and its wide hue 

Wax'd broad and waving, like a banner free. 

It chang'd, of course ; a heavenly cameleon, 
The airy child of vapor and the sun, 
Brought forth in purple, cradled in vermilion, 
Baptized in molten gold, and swathed in dun, 
Glittering like crescents o'er a Turk's pavilion, 
And blending every color into one. 

4132 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. Sts. 91 and 92 

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky 
When storms prepare to part ! 
I ask not proud Philosophy 
To teach me what thou art. 

Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, 
A midway station given 
For happy spirits to alight, 
Betwixt the earth and heaven. 

4133 Campbell : To the Rainbow. 

My heart leaps up when I behold 
A rainbow in the sky : 
So was it when my life began ; 
So is it now I am a man ; 
So be it when I shall grow old, 
Or let me die ! 

The child is father of the man ; 
And I could wish my days to be 
Bound each to each by natural piety. 
4C34 Wordsworth: On Childhood. 

Far up the blue sky a fair rainbow unroll'd 

Its soft-tinted pinions of purple and gold ; 

'Twas born in a moment, yet quick as its birth, 

It had stretched to the uttermost ends of the earth, 

And fair as an angel, it floated as free, 

With a wing on the earth and a wing on the sea. 

4135 Mrs. Welby : The Rainbow. 

RANK. 

Superior worth your rank requires : 
For that, mankind reveres your sires ; 
If you degenerate from your race, 
Their merits heighten your disgrace. 

4136 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 11. 



RANK — READING. 449 

Rank is a Farce — if People Fools will be, 
A Scavenger and King's the same to me. 

4137 Peter Pindar : Title Page. Peter's Prophecy. 
The rank is but the guinea stamp, 

The man's the gowd for a' that. 

4138 Burns : For a' That and a' That. 

RAPHAEL. 

Fain would I Raphael's godlike art rehearse, 

And show th' immortal labors in my verse, 

Where from the mingled strength of shade and light 

A new creation rises to my sight, 

Such heavenly figures from his pencil flow, 

So warm with life his blended colors glow. 

4139 Addison : Italy. Line 93, 

RASHNESS. 

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, 
The positive pronounce without dismay. 

4140 Cowper : Conversation. Line 145. 
1 -ZORS. 

"Not think they'd shave!" quoth Hodge with wond'ring 

eyes, 
And voice not much unlike an Indian yell; 
" What were they made for then, you dog? " he cries, — 
- ; Made ! " quoth the fellow, with a smile, — "to sell." 

4141 Peter Pindar : Farewell Odes to Eoyal Academicians. 

READING — see Books, Learning. 
Many books, 
Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads 
Incessantly, and to his reading brings not 
A spirit and judgment equal or superior, 
Uncertain and unsettled still remains — 
Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. 

4142 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. iv. Line 321. 
All rests with those who read. A work or thought 

Is what each makes it to himself, and may 
Be full of great dark meanings, like the sea, 
With shoals of life rushing. 

4143 Bailey : Festus. Proem. Line 326. 
O precious evenings ! all too swiftly sped ! 

Leaving us heirs to amplest heritages 

Of all the best thoughts of the greatest sages, 

And giving tongues unto the silent dead ! 

4144 Longfellow: On Mrs. Kemble's Readings from Shake- 

\_speare. 
When the last reader reads no more. 

4145 Oliver Wendell Holmes : The Last Reader. 



450 REASON. 

TtEASON — see Fancy, Man. 

I have no other but a woman's reason; 
I think him so, because I think him so. 

4146 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act i. Sc. 2 
Good reasons must, of force, give place to better. 

4147 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Whatever sceptic could inquire for, 

For every why he had a wherefore. 

4148 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 131. 
Thought 

Precedes the will to think, and error lives 
Ere reason can be born. Reason, the power 
To guess at right and wrong, the twinkling lamp 
Of wand'ring life, that winks and wakes by turns 
Pooling the follower 'twixt shade and shining. 

4149 Congreve : Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Whether with reason or with instinct blest, 

Know, all enjoy that power which suits them best; 

To bliss alike by that direction tend, 

And find the means proportion'd to their end. 

4150 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 79. 
Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, 

In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. 

4151 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 97. 
Who reasons wisely, is not therefore wise, 

His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. 

4152 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 117. 
There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, 

The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 

4153 Pope: Satire i. Line 127. 
I would make 

Reason my guide. 

4154 William Cullen Bryant : Conjunction of Jupiter and 

[ Venus. 
Reason progressive, instinct is complete; 
Swift instinct leaps ; slow reason feebly climbs, 
Brutes soon their zenith reach ; their little all 
Plows in at once : in ages they no more 
Could know, or do, or covet, or enjoy. 
Were man to live coeval with the sun, 
The patriarch-pupil would be learning still ; 
Yet, dying, leave his lesson half unlearned. 

4155 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 81. 
Reason the hoary dotard's dull directress, 

That loses all, because she hazards nothing: 
Reason ! the tim'rous pilot, that, to shun 
The rocks of life, for ever flies the port. 

4156 Dr. Johnson : Irene. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



REBELLION. 451 

SEBELLION — .see Contention, Discord, Mob, People, 
Traitor. 

Contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, 
And bears down all before him. 

4157 Skaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Their weapons only 
Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits and souls, 
This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, 
As fish are in a pond. 

4158 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act i. Sc X. 

One drop of bloocl, drawn from thy country's bosom, 
Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore : 
Return thee, therefore, with a flood of tears, 
And wash away thy country's stained spots. 

4159 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

0, pity, God, this miserable age ! — 
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, 
Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural, 
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget ! 

4160 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who, 
Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger, 
And lack of other means, in desperate manner 
Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar, 
And Danger serves among them. 

4161 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2. 

You may as well 
Strike at the heaven with your staves, as lift them 
Against the Roman state : whose course will on 
The way it takes, cracking ten thousand curbs 
Of more strong link asunder, than can ever 
Appear in your impediment. 

4162 Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 1. 

All the regions 
Do smilingly revolt; and who resist, 
Are only mock'd for valiant ignorance, 
And perish constant fools. 

4163 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc- 6. 

Xow let it work : Mischief, thou art afoot, 
Take thou what course thou wilt ! 

4164 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Rebellion now began, for lack 

Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack. 

4165 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 31. 



( 



452 REBELLION. 

The devil was tlic first o' th' name 
From whom the race of rebels came, 
Who was the first bold undertaker 
Of bearing arms against his Maker, 
And, though miscarrying in th' event, 
Was never yet known to repent, 
Though tumbled from the top of bliss 
Down to the bottomless abyss; 
A property which, from their prince, 
The family owns ever since, 
And therefore ne'er repent the evil 
They do or suffer, like the devil. 

4166 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 169 

The worst of rebels never arm 
To do their king or country harm, 
But draw their swords to do them good, 
As doctors cure by letting blood. 

4167 Butler: Misc. Thoughts. Line 181- 

Righteous heaven, 
In thy great day of vengeance ! blast the traitor ! 
And his pernicious counsels ; who, for wealth, 
For pow'r, the pride of greatness, or revenge, 
Would plunge his native land in civil wars. 

4168 Bovoe : Jane Shore. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

And perjury stood up to swear all true ; 

His aim was mischief, and his zeal pretence, 

His speech rebellion against common sense; 

A knave, when tried on honesty's plain rule, 

And when by that of reason a mere fool ; 

The world's best comfort was, his doom was pass'd, 

Die when he might, he must be damn'd at last. 

4169 Cowper: Hope. Line 563. 

I have seen some nations, like o'erloaded asses, 
Kick off their burdens — meaning the high classes. 

4170 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xi. St. 8*. 

Rebellion ! foul dishonoring word, 
Whose wrongful blight so oft has stain'd 
The holiest cause that tongue or sword 
Of mortal ever lost or gain'd ! 
How many a spirit born to bless 
Hath sunk beneath that withering name, 
Whom but a day's, an hour's success 
Had wafted to eternal fame ! 

4171 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Fire-Worship2Jers. 



REB UKE — REDE MP TION. 453 

REBUKE — see Love, Philosophy. 
Forbear sharp speeches to her ; She's a lady 
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
And strokes death to her. 

4172 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

RECIPROCITY. 

I ne'er could any lustre see • 

In eyes that would not look on me ; 

I ne'er saw nectar on a lip. 

But where my own did hope to sip. 

-11 73 Sheridan : Duenna. Act i. Sc. 2. 

RECKONING. 

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, 
The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more. 

4174 Gay : What D'ye Call It. Act ii. Sc. 9. 

RECONCILIATION — see Forgiveness. 
Forget, forgive ; conclude, and be agreed. 

4175 Shaks. : Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Never can true reconcilement grow, 

Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep. 

41 7G Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 98. 

RECREATION — see Pleasure. 

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue 
But moody and dull melancholy, 
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, 
Aud, at her heels, a huge infectious troop 
Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life? 

4177 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Nothing more preserves men in their wits, 

Than giving of them leave to play b3 r fits, 

In dreams to sport, and ramble with all fancies, 

And waking, little less extravagances, 

The rest and recreation of tired thought, 

When 'tis run down with care, aud overwrought; 

Of which whoever does not freely take 

His constant share, is never broad awake. 

4178 Butler : Abuse of Human Learning. Line 81. 

REDEMPTION — see Christ, Religion. 

Art tired? 
There is a rest remaining. Hast thou sinned? 
There is a Sacrifice. Lift up thy head, 
The lovely world, and the over-world alike, 
King with a song eterne, a happy rede, 
" Thy Father loves thee." 

4179 Jean Ingelow : Songs with Preludes. Dominion. 

[Prelude. Line 32. 



454 REDRESS — RELA TION. 

REDRESS. 
What need we any spur but our own cause 
To prick us to redress. 

4180 Shales. : Jul. Caesar. Act ii. Sc. L 

REFLECTION. 
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. 

4181 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 53. 

REFORMATION — see Mob, People. 
Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue. 

4182 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act i. Sc. 5. 
No sow-gelder did blow his horn 

To geld a cat, but cried Eeforra. 

The oyster women lock'd their fish up , 

And trudged away to cry No Bishop. 

4183 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 537. 
'Tis the talent of our English nation, 

Still to be plotting some new Reformation. 

4184 Dryden : Sophonisba. Prologue. 
All zeal for a reform that gives offence 

To peace and charity is mere pretence. 

4185 Cowper: Charity Line 533. 

REGRET — .sec Remembrance. 

Dear as remembered kisses after death, 
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned 
On lips that are for others ; deep as love, 
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; 

Death in Life ! the days that are no more. 

4186 Tennyson : The Princess. Canto iv. 
When I remember something which I had, 

But which is gone, and I must do without, 

1 sometimes wonder how I can be glad, 
Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout ; 
It makes me sigh to think on it, — but yet 

My days will not be better days, should I forget. 

4187 Jean Ingelow : Songs with Preludes, Regret 
Eor of all sad words of tongue or pen, 

The saddest are these : "It might have been ! " 

4188 Whittier: Maud Midler 

RELATION. 

The near in blood 
The nearer bloody. 

4189 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc & 



RELIGION. 455 

RELIGION— see Bigotry, Church, Converts, Creed, Devo- 
tion, Faith, Hypocrisy, Independence, Piety, Prayer, 
Proselytes, Quakers, Reformation, Saints. 

He wears Ms faith but as the fashion of his 
hat; it ever changes with the next block. 

4190 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal 
I served my king, he would not. in mine age. 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

4191 Shaks. : Henry Till. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

In Religion 
What damned error, but some sober brow 
Will bless it, and approve it with a text. 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament. 

4192 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

All our scourging of religion 
Began with tumult and sedition : 
When hurricanes of fierce commotion 
Became strong motives to devotion. 
As carnal seamen, in a storm, 
Turn pious converts and reform. 

4193 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. C .nto ii. Line 533. 

Let us think less of men and more of God. 

4194 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Wood and Water. 

Xot he who scorns the Saviour's yoke 
Should wear His cross upon the heart. 

4195 Schiller: Fight with the Dragon. St. 24. 

Beligi on's lustre is, by native innocence 

Divinely pure, and simple from all arts : 

You daub and dress her like a common mistres.. 

The harlot of your fancies : and by adding 

False beauties, which she wants not. make the world 

Suspect her angel's face is foul beneath. 

And will not bear all lights. 

4196 Rome: Tamerlane. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Beligion is a spring. 
That from some secret, golden mine 
Derives her birth, and thence doth bring 
Cordials in every drop, and wine. 

4197 Henry Yaughan : Religion. 
Invisible and silent stands 

The temple never made with hands. 

4198 Wnttier : The Meeting. Line 42. 
Religion crowns the statesman and the man. 

Sole source of public and of private peace. 

4199 Young: Public Situation of the Kingdom. Line 500. 



456 RELIGION. „ 

Some go to church, proud humbly to repent, 
And come back much more guilty than the}' went; 
One way they look, another way they steer. 
Pray to the gods, but would have mortals hear; 
And when their sins they set sincerely down. 
They'll find that their religion has been one. 

4200 Young: Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 63. 
When nations are to perish in their sins. 

Tis in the church the leprosy begins : 
The priest, whose office is with zeal sincere, 
To watch the fountain, and preserve it clear, 
Carelessly nods and sleeps upon the brink. 
While others poison what the flock must drink. 

4201 Cowper : Expostulation. Line 97. 
Pity Religion has so seldom found 

A skilful guide into poetic ground ! 

The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray, 

And every Muse attend her in her way. 

Virtue indeed meets many a rhyming friend, 

And many a compliment politely penned; 

But unattired in that becoming vest 

Religion weaves for her, and half undress'd, 

Stands in the desert shivering and forlorn, 

A wintry figure, like a wither'd thorn. 

4202 Cowper: Table Talk. Line 717. 
See the sage hermit by mankind admired, 

With all that bigotry adopts, inspired, 

Wearing out life in his religious whim, 

Till his religious whimsy wears out him. 

His works, his abstinence, his zeal allow'd. 

You think him humble — God accounts him proud. 

High in demand, though lowly in pretence, 

Of all his conduct this the genuine sense — 

" My penitential stripes, my streaming blood 

Have purchased heaven, and prove my title good." 

4203 Cowper: Truth. Line 87. 
What, always dreaming over heavenly things, 

Like angel-heads in stone, with pigeon- wings? 
Canting and whining out all day the Word, 
And half the night? fanatic and absurd ! 
Mine be the friend less frequent in his prayers, 
Who makes no bustle with his soul's affairs, 
Whose wit can brighten up a wintry day, 
And chase the splenetic dull hours awaj T , 
Content on earth in earthly things to shine, 
Who waits for heaven ere he becomes divine, 
Leaves saints to enjoy those altitudes they teach, 
And plucks the fruit placed more within his reach. 

4?04 Cowper: Conversation. Line 575. 



RELIGION — REMEDIES. 457 

Religion does not censure or exclude 

Unuumber'd pleasures, harmlessly pursued. 

To study culture, and with artful toil 

To meliorate and tame the stubborn soil ; 

To give dissimilar yet fruitful lands 

The grain, or herb, or plant that each demands. 

4205 Cowper : Retirement. Line 783. 
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms 

As rum and true religion ; thus it was, 

Some plunder'd, some drank spirits, some sung psalms. 

4206 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 34. 
I think that friars and their hoods, 

Their doctrines and their maggots, 

Have lighted up too many feuds, 

And far too many faggots ; 

I thiuk, while zealots fast and frown, 

And fight for two or seven, 

That there are fifty roads to town, 

And rather more to heaven. 

4207 Praed: Chant of Brazen Head. St. 8. 
Aud when religious sects ran mad, 

He held, in spite of all his learning, 

That if a man's belief is bad, 

It will not be improv'd by burning. 

4208 Praed : Every-Day Characters. The Vicar. St. 9. 
There lives more faith in honest doubt, 

Believe me, thau in half the creeds. 

4209 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xcv. St. 3. 
I take possession of man's mind and deed, 

I care not what the sects may brawl; 
I sit as God, holding no form of creed, 
But contemplating all. 

4210 Tennyson : Palace of Art. St. 53. 
'Tis some relief, that poiuts not clearly known, 
Without much hazard may be let alone ; 

And, after hearing what our Church can say, 
If still our reason runs another way. 
That private reason 'tis more just to curb, 
Than by disputes the public peace disturb; 
For points obscure are of small use to learn, 
But common quiet is mankind's concern. 

4211 Dryden: Religio Laid. Line 443. 

REMEDIES. 

Withdraw thy action, and depart in peace; 
The remedy is worse than the disease. 

4212 Dryden's Juvenal. Satire xvi. Line 30. 



458 REMEDIES — REMEMBRANCE. 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
Which we ascribe to Heaven ; the fated sky 
Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull 
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull. 

4213 Shahs. : All's Well. Act i. Sc. L 

REMEMBRANCE — see Memory, Regret, The Past. 
Keep this remembrance for thy Julia's sake. 

4214 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Praising what is lost, 

Makes the remembrance clear. 

4215 Shaks. : All's Well. Act v. Sc. 3. 
I've been so long remembered, I'm forgot. 

4216 young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 57. 
Sooner shall the blue ocean melt to air, 

Soouer shall earth resolve itself to sea, 
Than I resign thine image, oh, my fair ! 
Or think of anything, excepting thee. 

4217 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 19. 
What is excellent, 

As God lives, is permanent; 

Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, 

Heart's love will meet thee again. 

4218 Emerson : Threnody. Line 266. 
Go where glory waits thee ; 

But while fame elates thee, 
O, still remember me. 
When the praise thou meetest, 
To thine ear is sweetest, 
O, then remember me. 

4219 Moore : Go Where Glory Waits Thee. 
Departed suns their trails of splendor drew 

Across departed summers : whispers came 
Erom voices, long ago resolved again 
Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, 
Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, 
As in a spectral mirror wandered there. 

4220 Bayard Taylor : Poet's Journal. First Evening. 
I see the lights of the village 

Gleam through the rain and the mist, 

And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me 

That my soul cannot resist : 

A feeling of sadness and longing, 

That is not akin to pain, 

And resembles sorrow only 

As the mist resembles the rain. 

4221 Longfellovj : Day is Done. 



REMEMBRANCE — REMORSE- 459 

Strange to me now are the forms I meet 

When I visit the dear old town ; 

But the native air is pure and sweet, 

And the trees that o'ershadow each well-known street, 

As they balance up and down, 

Are singing the beautiful song, 

Are sighing and whispering still: 

"A boy's will is the wind's will, 

And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." 

4222 Longfellow : My Lost Youth. St. 9. 
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, 

Let me review the scene, 

And summon from the shadowy Past 

The forms that once have been. 

4223 ' Longfelloiv : A Gleam of Sunshine. 
His years with others must the sweeter be 

For those brief days he spent in loving me. 

4224 George Eliot : Brother and Sister. Pt. ix. 

years, gone down into the past, 
What pleasant memories come to me 
Of your untroubled days of peace, 
And hours almost of ecstasy. 

4225 Phozbe Gary: Reconciled. 
Near the lake where drooped the willow, 

Long time ago ! 

4226 George P. Morris : Near the Lake. 

1 remember, I remember, 
The fir-trees dark and high : 

I used to think their slender tops 

"Were close against the sky; 

It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 'tis little joy 

To know I'm farther off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 

4227 Hood: L Remember, L Remember, 

REMORSE. 

High minds, of native pride and force, 
Most deeply feel thy pangs, Kemorse! 
Fear, for their scourge, mean villains have; 
Thou art the torturer of the brave. 

4228 Scott: Marmion. Canto in. St. 1& 
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows, 

If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews 
Of true repentance ; but if proud and gloomy, 
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost, 
Weeps only tears of poison. 

4229 Coleridqe : Remorse. Act i. Sc. t 



460 RE PAR TEE — REPENTANCE. 

REPARTEE. 

A man renown'd for repartee 
Will seldom scruple to make free 
With friendship's finest feeling, 
Will thrust a dagger at your breast, 
And say he wounded you in jest, 
By way of balm for healing. 

4230 Cowper : Friendship. Line IS 

REPENTANCE — see Apology, Consideration, Forgiveness. 
Who by repentance is not satisfied 
Is nor of heaven nor earth; for these are pleased; 
By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased. 

4231 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 
They say, best men are moulded out of faults : 

And, for the most, become much more the better 
For being a little bad. 

4232 Shaks. : M. for M. Act v. Sc. 1. 
I do not shame 

To tell you what I was, since nry conversion 
So sweetly tastes, being the thiug I am. 

4233 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Like bright metal on a sullen ground. 

My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, 
Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes 
Than that which hath no foil to set it off. 

4234 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV Act i. Sc. 2. 
Let me tell the world, — 

If he outlive the envy of this day. 
England never did owe so sweet a hope, 
So much misconstrued in his wantonness. 

4235 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2. 
I survive, 

To mock the expectation of the world ; 
To frustrate prophecies ; and to raze out 
Eotten opinion, who hath writ me down 
After my seeming. 

4236 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act v. Sc. 2. 
Presume not that I am the thing I was : 

For heaven doth know, so shall the world perceive, 
That I have turned away my former self ; 
So will I those that kept me company. 

4237 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act v. Sc. 5. 
What is done caunot be now amended ; 

Men shall deal unadvisedly sometimes, 
Which after-hours give leisure to repent. 

4238 Shaks. : Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. 



REP EXT A NCE — RE PR OOF. 461 

Man should do nothing that he should repent, 
But if he have, and say that he is sorry, 
It is a worse fault, if he be not truly. 
4-239 Beaumont & Fletcher: H. Man's Fort. Act iv. Sc 2. 
O ye powers that search 
The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, 
If I have done amiss,- impute it not ! — 
The best mav err, but vou are good. 

4240 Addison : Colo. Act v. Sc. 4, 
Illusion is brief, but Repentance is long ! 

4241 Schiller: Lay of the Bell St. 4. 
Eepentance is the weight 

Of indigested meals eat yesterday. 

4242 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy. Bk. ii. 
Habitual evils seldom change too soon, 

But many days must pass, and many sorrows ; 
Conscious remorse, and anguish must be felt, 
To curb desire, to break the stubborn will, 
And work a second nature in the soul, 
Ere virtue can resume the place she lost. 

4243 Rov.e : Ulysses. A Palace. Act i. Sc. 

REPORTERS — see Journalists, Newspapers, Press. 
If there's a hole in a' your coats, 
I rede ye tent it : 

A duel's amang you taking notes, 
And, faith, he'll prent it. 

4244 Burns : Captain Grose. 

REPOSE — see Rest, Sleep. 

These should be hours for necessities, 
Not for delights ; times to repair our nature 
With comforting repose, and not for us 
To waste these times. 

4245 Shahs. : Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The best of men have ever loved repose : 

They hate to mingle in the filthy fray, 

Where the soul sours, and gradual rancor grows, 

Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day. 

E'en those whom Fame has lent her fairest ray, 

The most renown'd of worthy wights of yore, 

From a base world at last have stolen away. 

4246 Thomson : Castle of Indolence. Canto i. St. 17. 

REPROOF — see Chiding, Rebuke. 

Thou turn'st mine eyes into my very soul: 
A.nd there I see such black and grained spots, 
As will not leave their tinct. 

4247 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 



4G2 REPROOF — RESIGNATION. 

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise ; 
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. 

•1248 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 23. 

DEPUTATION — see Character, Detraction, Fame, Honor. 
The purest treasure mortal times afford, 
Is spotless reputation ; that away, 
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 

4249 Shales. : Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. 
The gravity and stillness of your youth 

The world hath noted, and your name is great 
In mouths of wisest censure. 

4250 ShaJcs. : Othello. Act il Pic. 3. 
O, I have lost my reputation ! 

I have lost the immortal part of myself, 
And what remains is bestial. 

4251 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
'Tis better to be vile, than vile esteemed, 

When not to be receives reproach of being ; 
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed 
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing. 

4252 Shahs. : Sonnet exxi. 
RESIGNATION — see Despair, Grief, Patience. 

Things without remedy, 
Should be without regard : what's done is done. 

4253 Shaks.: Macbeth Act iii. Sc 2. 

But Heaven hath a hand in these events ; 

To whose high will we bound our calm contents. 

4254 Shaks. : Richard II. Act v. Sc. 2. 

An old man, broken with the storms of state, 
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; 
Give him a little earth for charity ! 

4255 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

"When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, 
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. 
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 

4256 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Take what he gives, since to rebel is vain; 
The bad grows better, which we well sustain ; 
And could we choose the time, and chose aright, 
'Tis best to die, our honor at the height. 

4257 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2362. 

"We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, 
And still adore the hand that gives the blow. 

4258 Pomfret : To his Friend, 



RESIGXA TION— RE SOL UTION. 463 

Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand 
Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up awhile, 
And what your bounded view, which only saw 
A little part, deemed evil, is no more : 
The storms of wintry time will quickly pass, 
And one unbounded Spring encircle all. 

4259 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 1054 

If age and sickness, poverty and pain, 

Should each assault me with alternate plagues, 

I know mankind is destin'd to complain, 

And I submit to torment and fatigues ; 

The pious farmer, who ne'er misses pray'rs, 

With patience suffers unexpected rain; 

He blesses Heav'n for what its bounty spares, 

And sees, resign'd, a crop of blighted grain. 

But, spite of sermons, farmers would blaspheme, 

If a star fell to set their thatch on flame. 

4260 Lady Mary Wortley Montague: Poems. 

Well — peace to thy heart, tho' another's it be ; 
And health to that cheek, tho' it bloom not for me. 

4261 Moore : Well — peace to thy Heart. 



RESOLUTION _ S ee Activity, Determination, Promptitude. 
Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; 
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow 
Of braggiug horror : so shall inferior eyes, 
That borrow their behaviors from the great, 
Grow great by your example, and put on 
The dauntless spirit of resolution. 

4262 Shaks. : King John. Act v. Sc. 1. 

My resolution's plac'd, and I have nothing 
Of woman in me : Now from head to foot 
I am marble-constant. 

4263 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 2. 

The native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 
And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
With this regard, their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. 

4264 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose 

That you resolv'd to effect. 

4265 Shaks. : Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt, 
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. 

4266 Herrick ; Aph. Seek and Find. 



464 RESOURCES — RESULTS. 

RESOURCES — see Caution. 

'Tis good in every case, you know, 
To have two strings unto your bow. 

4267 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. iv. Line 1295. 

RESPECT — see Servility, Submission, Suppleness. 
You have too much respect upon the world : 
They lose it, that do buy it with much care. 

4268 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. 

REST — see Repose, Sleep. 
Eest that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, 
Is one with prayer. 

4269 Bayard Taylor : Tempt, of Hassan Ben Khaled. St. 4. 
There is a rest for all things. On still nights 

There is a folding of a million wings — 

The swarming honey-bees in unknown woods, 

The speckled butterflies and downy broods 

In dizzy poplar heights : 

Eest for innumerable nameless things, 

Eest for the creatures underneath the Sea, 

And in the Earth, and in the starry Air. 

4270 T. B. Alclrich : Invocation to Sleep. 
And the night shall be tilled with music, 

And the cares that infest the day 
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, 
And as silently steal away. 

4271 Loyigfellovj : Day is Done. 
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, 
All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, 
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! 

4272 Longfellow: Evangeline. Et. ii. v. Line 125. 
Eest is sweet after strife. 

4273 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Et. i. Canto vi. St. 25. 
Eriend, I sigh for repose, I am weary of roaming. 

I know not what Ararat rises for me 
Ear away, o'er the waves of the wandering sea : 
I know not what rainbow may yet, from far hills, 
Lift the promise of hope, the cessation of ills. 

4274 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Ft. i. Canto vi. St. 25. 

RESULTS — see Goodness. 
The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree 
I planted, — they have torn me, and I bleed: 
I should have known what fruit would spring from such a 
seed. 

4275 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 10. 



RESULTS — RETIREMENT. 405 

Sure of the Spring that warms them into birth, 
The golden germs thou trustest to the Earth; 
Heed'st thou as well to sow in Time the seeds 
Of Wisdom for Eternity — good deeds ? 

4276 Schiller : The Sower. 
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap ; 

The year grows rich as it groweth old; 
And life's latest sands are its sands of gold. 

4277 Julia C. R. Dorr : To the Bouquet Club. 
The evening shows the clay, and death crowns life. 

4278 Webster: A Monumental Column. Last Line. 
We shape ourselves the joy or fear 

Of which the coming life is made, 
And fill our Future's atmosphere 
With sunshine or with shade. 

4279 Whittier: Raphael. St. 15 

RESURRECTION — see Eternity, Futurity. 
Shall man alone, whose fate, whose final fate, 
Hangs on that hour, exclude it from his thoughts? , 
I think of nothing else — I see, I feel it! 
All nature like an earthquake, trembling round ! 
All deities, like summer swarms on wing, 
All basking in the full meridian blaze ! 
I see the Judge enthroned, the flaming guard! 
The volume open'd — open'cl every heart ! 
A sunbeam pointing out each secret thought ! 
No patron ! intercessor none ! now past 
The sweet, the clement mediatorial hour ! * 

Eor guilt no plea ! to pain no pause ! no bound ! 
Inexorable all! and all extreme! 

4280 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 262. 

RETIREMENT — see Adversity, Country Life, Rural Life, 
Solitude. 

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns : 
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, 
And to the nightingale's complaining notes 
Tune my distresses, and record my woes. 

4281 Shaks.: Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 
Hath not old custom made this life more sweet 

Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods 
More free from peril than the envious court? 

4282 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Retiring from the popular noise, I seek 

This unfrequented place to find some ease. 

4283 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 16. 



466 RETIREMENT. 

Now purer air 
Meets his approach, and to the heart inspires 
Vernal delight and joy, able to drive 
All sadness but despair : Now gentle gales 
Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense 
Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole 
Those balmv spoils. 

4284 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 153. 
Remote from man, with God he passed the days, 

Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. 

4285 Parnell : Hermit. Line 5. 
Happy the man, whose wish and care 

A few paternal acres bound, 
Content to breathe his native air 
In his own ground. 

4286 Pope : Ode on Solitude. 
An elegant sufficiency, content, 

Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 
Ease and alternate labor, useful life, 
Progressive virtue, and approving heaven ! 

4287 Thomson: Seasons. Spring. Line 11G1. 
Welcome, ye shades ! ye bowery thickets, hail! 

Ye lofty pines ! ye venerable oaks ! 

Ye ashes wild, resounding o'er the steep ! 

Delicious is your shelter to the soul. 

4288 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 392. 
The fall of kings, 

The rage of nations, and the crush of states, 

Movfe not the man, who, from the world escap'd, 

In still retreats, and flowery solitudes, 

To Nature's voice attends, from month to month, 

And day to day, through the revolving year ; 

Admiring, sees her in her every shape; 

Feels all her sweet emotions at his heart ; 

Takes what she liberal gives, nor thinks of more. 

4289 Tliomson : Seasons. Autumn. Line 1199. 
O sacred solitude ! divine retreat ! 

Choice of the prudent ! envy of the great ! 
By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, 
"We court fair Wisdom, that celestial maid. 

4290 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 247. 
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, 

Retreats from care that never must be mine, 
How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, 
A youth of labor, with an age of ease ; 
Who quits a world where strong temptations try, 
And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. 

4291 Goldsmith : Pes. Village. Line 97. 



BET I BE ME NT. 467 

To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind ; 

All are not fit with them to stir and toil, 

Nor is it discontent to keep the mind 

Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil 

In one hot throng, where we become the spoil 

Of our infection, till too late and long 

We ma}* deplore and struggle with the coil, 

In wretched interchange of wrong for wrong 

'Midst a contentious world, striving where none are strong. 

4292 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. G9. 
Scenes must be beautiful which daily viewed, 

Please daily, and whose novelty survives 
Lous: knowledge and the scrutiny of vears. 

4293 Cowper: Task. Bk. i. Line 177. 
Had I the choice of sublunary good, 

What could I wish that I possess not here? 

Health, leisure, means t' improve it, friendship, peace. 

4294 Cowper: Task. Bk. iii. Line G87. 

"Lis pleasant through the loopholes of retreat 
To peep at such a world ; to see the stir 
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. 

4295 Cowper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 88. 

Hackuey'd in business, wearied at that oar, 

Which thousauds, once fast chain'd to, quit no more, 

But which, when life at ebb runs weak aud low, 

All wish, or seem to wish, they could forego ; 

The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade, 

Pants for the refuge of some rural shade, 

Where, all his long anxieties forgot, 

Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot, 

Or recollected only to gild o'er 

And add a smile to what was sweet before. 

4296 Cowper: Betirement. Line 1. 
Anticipated rents and bills unpaid, 

Force many a shining j'outh into the shade, 
Xot to redeem his time, but his estate, 
And play the fool, but at a cheaper rate. 

4297 Cowper: Betirement. Line 559. 

Some retire to nourish hopeless woe ; 

Some seeking happiness not found below ; 

Some to comply with humor, and a mind 

To social scenes by nature disinclined ; 

Some sway'd by fashion, some by deep disgust; 

Some s elf-imp overish'd. and because they must; 

But few that court retirement are aware 

Of half the toils they must encounter there. 

4298 Cowper: Betirement. Line 603. 



468 RE TIRE ME NT — RE VENGE. 

The fall of waters and the song of birds, 

And hills that echo to the distant herds, 

Are luxuries excelling all the glare 

The world can boast, and her chief favorites share. 

4299 Gowper: Retirement. Line 182 
Thy shades, thy silence, now be mine, 

Thy charms my only theme ; 
My haunt the hollow cliff, whose pine 
Waves o'er the gloomy stream. 
Where the sacred owl, on pinions gray, 
Breaks from the rustling boughs, 
And down the lone vale sails away, 
To more profound repose. 

4300 Beattie : Retirement. St. 7. 

RETREAT— .see Battle, Solitude, War. 
In all the trade of war, no feat 
Is nobler than a brave retreat ; 
For those that run away, and fly, 
Take place at least of the enemy. 

4301 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 607. 

RETROSPECTION— see Experience, Remembrance. 
'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 
And ask them what report they've borne to heaven, 
And how they might have borne more welcome news, 
Their answers form what men experience call ; 
If wisdom's friend, her best ; if not, worst foe. 

4302 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 378. 
Where is the one who hath not had 

Some anguish-trial, long gone by, 
Steal, spectre-like, all dark and sad 
On busy thought, till the full eye. 
And aching breast, betray'd too well, 
The Past still held undying spell? 

4303 Eliza Cook : Melaia. Line 134. 

REVENGE— see Ang-er, Bond, Hatred, Vengeance. 
Pleasure and revenge 
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice 
Of any true decision. 

4304 S'haks. : Troil. and Cress. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, 

With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, 
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, 
Cry " Havock," and let slip the dogs of war. 

4305 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc- 1. 



REVENGE. 469 

It is a quarrel most unnatural, 

To be reveng'd on him that loveth thee. 

4306 Shahs. : Richard III Act i. Sc. 2. 

0, that the slave had forty thousand lives; 
One is too poor, too weak for iny revenge. 

4307 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Had all his hairs been lives, mj r great revenge 
Had stomach for them all. 

4308 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 

To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! 
Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit! 
I dare damnation : To this point I stand, — 
That both the worlds I give to negligence, 
Let come what comes ; only I'll be reveng'd. 

4309 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

Revenge, at first though sweet, 
Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. 

4310 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 171. 

My injur'd honor, 
Impatient of the wrong, calls for revenge. 

4311 Roice : Lady Jane Grey. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

'Tis sw T eet to love ; but when with scorn we meet, 
Revenge supplies the loss with joys as great. 

4312 Lord Lansdowne : British Enchanter. Act v. Sc. 1. 

If we do but watch the hour, 
There never yet was human power 
Which could evade, if unforgiven, 
The patient search and vigil long 
Of him who treasures up a wrong. 

4313 Byron: Mazeppa. St. 10. 

There are things 
Which make revenge a virtue by reflection, 
And not an impulse of mere anger ; though 
The laws sleep, justice wakes, and injur'd souls 
Oft do a public right with private wrong. 

4314 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

A slave insults me — I require his punishment 
From his proud master's hands; if he refuse it, 
The offence grows his, and let him answer ic. 

4315 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Vengeance to God alone belongs ; 
But, when I think of all my wrongs, 
My blood is liquid flame. 

4316 Scott : Ma.rmion. Canto vi. St. 7 



470 RE t r ERSES — RUE TORI C. 

REVERSES — see Adversity, Greatness, Misfortune, 
Patience. 
You should have feared false times, when you did feast; 
Suspect still comes where an estate is least. 

4317 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3 

Ebbing men, indeed, 
Most often do so near the bottom run, 
By their own fear, or sloth. 

4318 Shaks. : Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

A brave man struggling- in the storms of fate, 
And greatly falling with a falling state. 

4319 Pope : Prol. to Addison's Cato. Line 21. 

In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half -hung, 
The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, 
On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, 
With tape-tiecl curtains, never meant to draw, 
The George and Garter dangling from that bed 
Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, 
Great Villiers lies — alas ! how changed from him, 
That life of pleasure and that soul of whim ! 

4320 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 299. 

REVOLUTION— see Despotism. 

Fickle changelings and poor discontents, 
Which gape, and rub the elbow, at the news 
Of hurlyburly innovation : 

. . . moody beggars, starving for a time 
Of pellmell havoc and confusion. 

4321 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 1. 

The world is grown so bad, 
That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch : 
Since eveiy Jack became a gentleman, 
There's many a gentle person made a Jack. 

4322 ' Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3. 

There is great talk of revolution, 
And a great chance of despotism, 
German soldiers, camps, confusion, 
Tumults, lotteries, rage, delusion, 
Gin, suicide, and Methodism. 

4323 Shelley : Peter Bell the Third. Hell. St. & 

RHETORIC — see Law, Oratory. 
For Rhetoric, he'could not ope 
His mouth, but out there flew a trope. 

4324 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 81 



RHINE — RICHES. 471 



RHINE. 

The river Rhine, it is well known, 
Doth wash your citj* of Cologne ; 
But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine 
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? 

4325 Coleridge: Cologne. 

RICHES — see Apparel, Wealth. 

Mammon led them on : 
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell 
From heaven ; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts 
Were always downward bent, admiring more 
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, 
Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoy 'd 
In vision beatific. 

4326 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 678. 

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, 

The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare ; more apt 

To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, 

Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise. 

4327 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. ii. Line 453. 

Nor is't your person 
My stomach's set so sharp and fierce on ; 
But 'tis your better part, your riches, 
That my enamor'd heart bewitches. 

4328 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 473. 

Why lose we life in anxious cares, 
To lay in hoards for future years? 
Can those (when tortur'd by disease,) 
Cheer our sick hearts, or purchase ease? 
Can those prolong one gasp of breath, 
Or calm the troubled hour of death? 

4329 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 16. 

To whom can riches give repute or trust, 
Content or pleasure, but the good and just? 
Judges and senates have been bought for gold, 
Esteem and love were never to be sold. 

4330 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 185. 

O grievous folly to heap up estate, 
Losing the clays you see beneath the sun. 
When, sudden, comes blind unrelenting Fate, 
And gives th' untasted portion you have Avon 
With ruthless toil, and many a wretch undone. 
To those who mock 3*011, gone to Pluto's reign. 

4331 Thomson: Castle of Indolence. Canto i. St. 19. 



472 RICHES — RIVERS. 

Much learning shows how little mortals know ; 
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy: 
At best, it babies us with endless toys, 
And keeps us children till we drop to dust. 
As monkeys at a mirror stand amazed, 
They fail to find what they so plainly see ; 
Thus men, in shining riches, see the face 
Of happiness, nor know it is a shade ; 
But gaze, and touch, and peep, and peep again, 
And wish, and wonder it is absent still. 

4332 Young : Nigh. Thoughts. Night vi. Line 519. 
The rich man's son inherits cares : 

The bank may break, the factory burn, 
A breath may burst his bubble shares, 
And soft white hands could hardly earn 
A living that would serve his turn. 

4333 James Russell Lowell : The Heritage. 

RIDICULE— see Jesting-. 

But touch me, and no minister so sore. 
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time 
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, 
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, 
And the sad burthen of some merry song. 

4334 Tope : Satire i. Line 76. 
Ridicule is a weak weapon, when levelled at a strong 

mind ; 
But common men are cowards, and dread an empty laugh. 

4335 1 "upper : Proverbial Phil. Of Ridicule. 

RIVERS — see Rhine, Thames. 
And see the rivers how they run 
Through woods and meads, in shade and sun; 
Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, 
Wave succeeding wave, they go 
A various journey to the deep, 
Like human life, to endless sleep ! 

4336 Dyer : Grongar Hill. Line 9a 
A little stream came tumbling from the height, 

And struggling into ocean as it might. 

Its bounding crystal frolick'd in the ray, 

And gush'd from cliff to crag with saltless spray. 

4337 Byron : Island. Canto iii. St. 3. 
The river knows the way to the sea : 

Without a pilot it runs and falls, 
Blessing all lands with its charity. 

4338 Emerson : Woodnotes. Pt. ii. Line 272 



RI VERS — R OMANCE. 473 

Oh, River ! darkling River ! what a voice 
Is that thou utterest while all else is still — 
The ancient voice that, centuries ago, 
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet 
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream ! 



At dead of night the child awakes and hears 
Thy soft, familiar dashings, and is soothed, 
And sleeps again. 

4339 William Cullen Bryant: Night Journey of a River. 
Oh, River, gentle River ! gliding on 
In silence underneath this starless sky ! 
Thine is a ministry that never rests 
Even while the living slumber. 



Thou pausest not in thine allotted task, 
Oh, darkling River! 

4340 William Cullen Bryant : Night Journey of a River. 

See the rivers, how they run, 
Changeless to the changeless sea. 

4341 Charles King sley : Saint's Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

The Nile, forever new and old, 
Among the living and the dead, 
Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. 

4342 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. i. 

ROBBERY see Resignation. 

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, 
Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all. 

4343 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

ROMANCE — see Story, Tales. 
0, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you. 

4344 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Waters 

. . . when they kiss one bank, and leaving this, 
Never look b?,ck, but the next bank do kiss, 
Then are they purest. 

4345 John Donne : Elegy iii. Change. 
Romances paint at full length people's wooings, 

But only give a bust of marriages : 
Eor no one cares for matrimonial cooings, 
There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss. 
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, 
He would have written sonnets all his life? 

4346 Byron ; Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 8 



474 ROME — ROSES. 

ROME. 

See the wild waste of all-devouring years ! 
How Rome her own sad sepulchre appears ! 
With nodding arches, broken temples spread, 
The very tombs now vanished like their dead ! 

4347 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. v. Line !. 
While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; 

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall: 
And when Rome falls, — the world. 

4348 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 145. 

ROSES— see Flowers, Love. 

O, how much more doth Beauty beauteous seem. 
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! 
The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem. 
For that sweet odor which doth in it live. 

4349 Shaks.: Sonnet Mr 
You love the roses — so do I. I wish 

The sky would rain down roses, as they rain 
Prom off the shaken bush. Why will it not? 
Then all the valleys would be pink and white, 
And soft to tread on. They would fall as light 
As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be 
Like sleeping and yet waking, all at once. 
Over the sea, Queen, where we soon shall go, 
Will it rain roses? 

4350 George Eliot. : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iii. 
As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. 

4351 *" Keats : Eve of St. Agnes. St. 27 
Rose ! thou art the sweetest flower 

That ever drank the amber shower ; 

Rose ! thou art the fondest child 

Of dimpled Spring, the wood-nymph wild ! 

E'en the gods, who walk the sky, 

Are amorous of thy scented sigh ; 

Cupid, too, in Paphian shades, 

His hair with rosy fillet braids. 

4352 Moore, r Odes of Anacreon. Ode xliv 
The rose saith in the dewy morn, 

I am most fair ; 

Yet all my loveliness is born 

L'pon a thorn. 

4353 Christina G. Rossetti : Consider the Lilies of the Field. 
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 

Old Time is still a-flying ; 

And this same flower that smiles to-day 

To-morrow will be dying. 

4354 HerricJc : To Virgins, to Make Much of Time, 



R OSES — ROYAL T Y. 4 75 

Go, lovely rose ! 

Tell her. that wastes her time and me, 

That now she knows, 

When I resemble her to thee, 

How sweet and fair she seems to be. 

4355 Waller: Go, Lovely Rosa 

No flowers embalm'd the air but one white rose, 
Which, on the tenth of June, bj- instinct blows. 

4356 Churchill: Prophecy of Famine. Line 307. 

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, 
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears : 
The rose is sweetest wash*d with morning dew, 
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. 

4357 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto iv. St. 1. 

If on creation's morn the king of heaven 

To shrubs and flowers a sovereign lord had given. 

O beauteous rose, he had anointed thee 

Of shrubs and flowers the sovereign lord to be : 

The spotless emblem of unsullied truth, 

The smile of beauty and the glow of youth, 

The garden's pride, the grace of vernal bowers, 

The blush of meadows, and the eye of flowers. 

4358 Bohn: Ms. 

A sunbeam warm'd thee into bloom ; 
A zephyr's kiss thy blushes gave : 
The tears of ev'ning shed perfume, 
And morn will beam upon thy grave. 
How like to thee, thou transient flower, 
The doom of all we love on earth: 
Beauty, like thee, but decks an hour, 
Decay feeds on it from its birth. 

4359 Bohn: Ms. 

ROUSSEAU. 

The self-torturing sophist, wild Eousseau, 
The apostle of affliction — he, who threw 
Enchantment over passion, and from woe 
Wrung overwhelming eloquence. 

4360 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 77, 

ROYALTY — see Kings, Princes, Victoria. 
Princes have but their titles for their glories, 
An outward honor for an inward toil; 
And, for unfelt imaginations, 
Thev often feel a world of restless cares. 

43G1 Shaks. : Richard ILL Act i. Sc. 4. 



476 ROYALTY— RUINS. 

Princes, that would their people should do well, 
Must at themselves begin, as at the head ; 
For men. by their example, pattern out 
Their imitations and regard of laws ; 
A virtuous court a world to virtue draws. 

4362 Ben Jonson : Cynthia's Revels. Act v. Sc. 3. 

wretched state of Kings ! O doleful fate ! 
Greatness misnamed, in misery only great! 
Could men but know the endless woeTit brings, 
The wise would die before they would be Kings. 
Think what a King must do ! It tasks the best 
To rule the little world within his breast, 

Yet must he rule it, and the world beside, 

Or King is none, undone by power and pride. 

Think what a King must be ! What burdens bear 

From birth to death ! His life is one long care. 

It wears away in tasks that never end. 

He has ten thousand foes, but not one friend. 

4363 R. H. Stoddard : The King's Bell. 

RUINS — see Decay, Mortality. 

Where my high steeples whilom used to stand, 
On which the lordly falcon wont to tower, 
There now is but an heap of lime and sand, 
For the screech-owl to build her baleful bower. 

4364 Spenser : Ruins of Time. Line 127 

All things decay with time ; the forest sees 
The growth and downfall of her aged trees : 
That timber tall, which threescore lustres stood 
The proud dictator of the state-like wood — 

1 mean the sov'reign of all plants, the oak, 
Droops, dies, and falls, without the cleaver's stroke. 

4365 Herrick : Aph. All Things Decay and Die. 

There is given 
Unto the things of earth, which Time hath bent, 
A spirit's feeling, and where he hath leant 
His hand, but broke his scythe, there is a power 
And magic in the ruined battlement ; 
For which the palace of the present hour 
Must yield its pomp, and wait till ages are its dower. 

4366 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 129. 

There is a temple in ruin stands, 

Fashion'd by long-forgotten hands ; 

Two or three columns, and many a stone, 

Marble and granite, with grass o'ergrown ! 

Out upon Time ! it will leave no more 

Of the things to come than the things before ! 

4367 Byron : Siege of Corinth. St. 18. 



RUINS— RURAL LIFE. 477 

Yc glorious Gothic scenes ! how much ye strike 
All phantasies, not even excepting mine : 
A gray wall, a green ruin, rusty pike, 
Make my soul pass the equinoctial line 
Between the present and past worlds, and hover 
Upon their airy confines, half-seas over. 

4368 Byron: Don Juan. Canto x. St. 61. 

RULING PASSIONS. 

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, 
Tenets with books, and principles with times. 
Search then the Ruling Passion : there, alone, 
The wild are constant, and the cunning known. 

4369 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 172. 
And you, brave Cobham ! to the latest breath, 

Shall feel your Ruling Passion strong in death. 

4370 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 262. 
In men, we various Ruling Passions find ; 

In women, two almost divide the kind; 
Those, only fix'd, they first or last obey, 
The love of pleasure and the love of sway. 

4371 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 207. 

'^UMOR — see News. 

Rumor is a pipe 
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; 
And of so easy and so plain a stop 
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, 
The still-discordant wavering multitude, 
Can play upon it. 

4372 Shaks. : Henry IV. Pt. ii. Induction. 
Rumor cloth double, like the voice and echo, 

The numbers of the fear'd. 

4373 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
The flying rumors gather'd as they roll'd, 

Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told ; 
And all who told it added something new, 
And all who heard it made enlargements too ; 
In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew. 
Thus flying east and west, and north and south, 
News travell'd with increase from mouth to mouth. 

4374 Pope: Temple of Fame. Line 468. 

RURAL LIFE — see Country Life, Evening-, Home, Retire- 
ment. 

Of men 
The happiest he, who far from public rage, 
Deep in the vale, with a choice few retired, 
Drinks the pure pleasures of the rural life. 

4375 Thomson : Seasons. Autumn Line 1132 



478 RURAL LIFE — SABBATH. 

She went, to plain-work, and to purling brooks, 

Old-fashion'd halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks : 

She went from opera, park, assembly, play, 

To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day; 

To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, 

To muse, and spill her solitary tea, 

Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, 

Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon : 

Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire, 

Hum half a tune, tell stories to the squire ; 

Up to her godly garret after seven, 

There starve and pray, for that's the way to heaven. 

4376 Pope : Epis. to Miss Blount on leaving Town. Line 11. 

A time there was, ere England's griefs began, 
When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man; 
For him light labor spread her wholesome store, 
Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : 
His best companions, innocence and health, 
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. 

4377 Goldsmith : Ues. Village. Line 57. 

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds 
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore 
The tone of languid nature. Mighty winds, 
That sweep the skirt of some far-spreading wood 
Of ancient growth, make music not unlike 
The dash of Ocean on his winding shore, 
And lull the spirit while they fill the mind. 

4378 Cowper: Task. Bk. i. Line 181. 

Ye gentle souls, who dream of rural ease, 
Whom the smooth stream and smoother sonnet please; 
Go ! if the peaceful cot your praises share, 
Go look within, and ask if peace be there; 
If peace be his — that drooping weary sire, 
Or theirs, that offspring round their feeble fire ; 
Or hers, that matron pale, whose trembling hand 
Turns on the wretched hearth, th' expiring brand ! 

4379 Crabbe : Village. Bk. i. Line 172. 



S. 

SABBATH. 

The Sabbath bell, 
That over wood, and wild, and mountain dell 
Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy 
With sounds most musical, most melancholy. 

4380 Rogers : Human Life. Line 515. 



SABBATH. 479 

What ! shut the Gardens ! lock the latticed gate ! 
Kefuse the shilling and the Fellow's ticket ! 
And hang a wooden notice up to state, 
" On Sundays no admittance at this wicket! " 
The birds, the beasts, and all the reptile race 
Denied to friends and visitors till Monday? 
Now, really, this appears the common case 
Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday — 
But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy? 

4381 Hood: An Open Question. St. 1. 

What harm if men who burn the midnight oil, 
Weary of frame, and worn and wan in feature, 
Seek once a week their spirits to assoil, 
And catch a glimpse of " Animated Nature? " 
Better it were if, in his best of suits, 
The artisan, who goes to work on Monday, 
Should spend a leisure hour among the brutes, 
Than make a beast of his own self on Sunday — 
But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy? 

4382 Hood: An Open Question. St. 15. 

Hail, Sabbath ! thee I hail, the poor man's day : 

On other clays the man of toil is doom'd 

To eat his joyless bread, lonely — the ground 

Both seat and board — screen'd from the winter's cold 

And summer's heat, by neighb'ring hedge or tree ; 

But on this day, embosom'cl in his home, 

He shares the frugal meal with those he loves. 

4383 Grahame: Sabbath. 

The seventh clay this ; the jubilee of man : 
London ! right well thou know'st the day of prayer : 
Then thy spruce citizen, wash'cl artisan, 
And smug apprentice gulp their weekly air : 
The coach of hackney, whiskey, one-horse chair, 
And humblest gig, through sundry suburbs whirl; 
To Hampstead, Brentford, Harrow, make repair; 
Till the tired jade the wheel forgets to hurl, 
Provoking envious gibe from each pedestrian churl. 

4384 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 69. 

Bright shadows of true rest! some shoots of bliss; 

Heaven once a week ; 

The next world's gladness prepossest in this ; 

A day to seek ; 

Eternity in time ; the steps by which 

We climb above all ages : lamps that light 

Man through his heap of dark clays ; and the rich 

And full redemption of the whole week's flight. 

4385 Henry Vaughan : Silex Sdntillans. Pt. i. Sun-Days. 



480 SABBATH— SAILORS. 

E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-clay to me. 

4386 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 12. 
A taste of heav'n on earth ; the pledge aud cue 

Of a full feast ; and the out-courts of glory. 

4387 Henry Vaughan : Sun-Days, 
The returns of trust ; 

A gleam of glory after six-days-showers. 

4388 Henry Vaughan: Sun-Days. 
He made the Sabbath shine before 

The work-days and the care, 
And set about its golden door 
The messengers of prayer. 

4389 Alice Cary : Mercies. 
Yes, child of suffering, thou mayest well be sure, 

He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor. 

4390 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Urania. 
The Sabbath brings its kind release, 

And Care lies slumbering on the lap of Peace. 

4391 Oliver Wendell Holmes. A Bhymed Lesson. Line 229- 
Yet every clay in seven, at least, 

One bright republic shall be known; — 
Man's world awhile hath surely ceas'd, 
When God proclaims His own ! 
Six days may rank divide the poor, 
O Dives! from thy bauquet-hall — 
The seventh the Father opes the door, 
And holds His feast for all ! 

4392 Bulwer-Lytton : Corn Flowers. Bk. ii. The Sabbath. 
Six clays of toil, poor child of Cain, 

Thy strength the slave of Want may be ; 
The seventh thy limbs escape the chain — 
A God hatn made thee free ! 

4393 Bulwer-Lytton : Corn Flowers. Bk. ii. The Sabbath- 
Take the Sunday with you through the week, 

And sweeten with it all the other days. 

4394 * Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. i. 5. 

SAILORS— see Ocean, Sea, Shipwreck, Waves. 
He that has sail'd upon the dark blue sea 
Has view'cl at times, I ween, a full fair sight; 
When the fresh breeze is fair as breeze may be, 
The white sails set, the gallant frigate tight ; 
Masts, spires, and strand retiring to the right, 
The glorious main expanding o'er the bow, 
The convoy spread like wild swans in their flight, 
The dullest sailer wearing bravely now, 
So gaily curl the waves before each clashing prow. 
■4395 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 17 



SAILORS — SAINT PETER. 48\ 

Hark to the Boatswain's call, the cheering cry ! 
While through the seaman's hand the tackle glides ; 
Or school-boy Midshipman that, standing by, 
Strains his shrill pipe as good or ill betides, 
And well the docile crew that skilful urchin guides. 

4396 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 18 
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, 

And you are staid for. 

4397 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 
What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, 

Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before. 

4398 Hernck : Aph. Safety on the Shore. 
A wet sheet and a flowing sea, 

A wind that follows fast, 

And tills the white and rustling sail, 

And bends the gallant mast. 

4399 Allan Cunningham : Song. 
O Thou, who in thy hand dost hold 

The winds and waves that wake or sleep, 
Thy tender arms of mercy fold 
Around the seamen on the deep. 

4400 Hannah F. Gould: Changes on the Deep. 

There's one whose fearless courage yet has never failed in 

fight; 
Who guards with zeal our country's weal, our freedom, and 

our right ; 
Jmt though his strong and ready arm spreads havoc in its 

blow ; 
Cry " Quarter ! " and that arm will be the first to spare its 

foe. 
He recks not though proud Glory's shout may be the knell 

of death ; 
The triumph won, without a sigh he yields his parting breath. 
He's Britain's boast, and claims a toast ! " In peace, my boys, 

or war, 
Here's to the brave upon the wave, the gallant English Tar." 

4401 Eliza Cook : Gallant English Tar. 

SAINT PETER. 

Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate : 

His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull, 

So little trouble had been given of late; 

Not that the place by any means was full, 

But since the Gallic era " eighty-eight" 

The devils had ta'en a longer, stronger pull, 

And " a pull all together," as they say 

At sea — which drew most souls another way. 

4402 Byron : Vision of Judgment. St. 1 



482 SAINTS. 

SAINTS — see Dissenters, Hypocrisy, Puritans. 
For saints in peace degenerate, 
And dwindle down to reprobate ; 
Their zeal corrupts, like standing water, 
In th' intervals of war and slaughter; 
Abates the sharpness of its edge, 
Without the pow'r of sacrilege. 

4403 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 643. 
And now the saints began their reign, 

For which they'd yearu'd so long in vain, 
And felt such bowel -hankerings, 
To see an empire, all of kings. 

4404 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 237. 
In the wicked there's no vice, 

Of which the saints have not a spice, 

And yet that thing that's pious in 

The ODe, in th' other is a sin. 

Is it not ridiculous, and nonsense, 

A saint should be a slave to conscience? 

4405 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 243. 
A godly man, that has serv'd out his time 

In holiness, may set up any crime; 

As scholars, when they've taken their degrees, 

May set up any faculty they please. 

4406 Butler: Misc. Thoughts. Line 291. 

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; 

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn ; 

A judge is just, a chanc'llor juster still ; 

A gown-man learn'd : a bishop what you will : 

Wise if a minister ; but if a king, 

More wise, more learn'd, more just, more ev'rything. 

4407 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 135. 
The devil was piqu'd such saintship to behold, 

And longed to tempt him like good Job of old; 

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, 

And tempts by making rich, not making poor. 

4408 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 349. 
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had ; 

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 

4409 Pope : Satire iv Line 26. 

But jest apart — what virtue canst thou trace 
In that broad brim that hides thy sober face? 
Does that long-skirted drab, that over-nice 
And formal clothing, prove a scorn of vice? 
Then for thine accent — what in sound can be 
So void of grace as dull monotony? 

4410 Crabbe : Frank Courtship. Line 428. 



:' SAINTS — SALT. 483 

For a siimer, thou'rt too much a saint ; 

Hast too much show of the sedate and pure, 

Aud Avithout cause art formal and demure : 

This makes a mau unsocial, unpolite ; 

Odious when wrong, and insolent if right. 

Thou may'st be good, but why should goodness be 

Wrapt in a garb of such formality? 

4411 Crabbe : Frank Courtship. Line 419. 

His native sense is hurt by strange complaints 
Of inward motions in these warring saints ; 
Who never cast on sinful bait a look, 
But they perceive the devil at the hook. 

4412 ' Crabbe : Advice. Line 408. 

When, at his humble pray'r, you deign'd to eat, 

Saints as you are, a civil sinner's meat ; 

When as you sat contented and at ease, 

Nibbling at leisure on the ducks and peas, 

And, pleased some comforts in such place to find, 

You could descend to be a little kind ; 

And gave us hope, in heaven there might be room 

For a few souls beside your own to come ; 

While this world's good engaged your carnal view, 

And like a sinner you enjoy'd it too ; 

All this perceiving, can you think it strange 

That change in you should work an equal change? 

4413 Crabbe : Convert. Line 292. 

They pray, they fight, they murder, aud they weep — 
Wolves in their vengeance, in their manners sheep; 
Too well they act the prophet's fatal part, 
Denouncing evil with a zealous heart ; 
And each, like Jonah, is displeased if God 
Kepent his anger, or withhold his rod. 

4414 Crabbe : Library. Line 229. 

The rigid saiut, by whom no mercy's shown, 
To saints whose lives are better than his own. 

4415 Churchill : Epis. to Hogarth. Line 25. 

SALT. 
Alas ! you know the cause too well; 
The salt is spilt, to me it fell. 

4416 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 37. 

Why dost thou shun the salt? that sacred pledge, 
Which once partaken blunts the sabre's edge, 
Makes even contending tribes in peace unite. 
And hated hosts seem brethren to the sight. 

4417 Byron : Corsair. Canto ii St 4, 



484 SA I UTA 7 1 OX — & I TIRE. 

SALUTATION — see Meeting, Welcome. 
A fair good evening to my fairer hostess. 

4418 Byron : Werner. Act i. Sc. 1. 

SATAN — see Devil. 
Meanwhile the adversary of God and man. 
Satan, with thoughts inflam'd of highest design, 
Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of Hell 
Explores his solitary flight : sometimes 
He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the left: 
Now shaves with level wing the dec,, ; then soars 
Up to the flery concave, tow'ring high. 

4419 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 629. 
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile, 

Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd 
The mother of mankind. 

4420 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 34. 

SATIETY— see Excess, Surfeit. 
As surfeit is the father of much fast, 
So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
Turns to restraint. 

4421 Shaks. : M. for 31. Act i. Sc. 3. 

They surfeited with honey ; and began 

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little 

More than a little is by much too much. 

4422 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
"With pleasure drugg'd he almost long'd for woe, 

And e'en for change of scene would seek the shades below. 

4423 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 6. 

SATIRE — see Critics, Poetry. 
Satire or sense, alas ! can it feel? 
Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? 

4424 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 307. 
Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet 

To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet ; 

I only wear it in a land of Hectors. 

Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. 

4425 Pope : Satire i. Line 69. 

Satire should, like a polish'd razor, keen, 
Wound with a touch, that's scarcely felt or seen; 
Thine is an oyster-knife, that hacks and hews : 
The rage, but not the talent to abuse; 
And is in hate, what love is in the stews. 

4426 Lady M. W. Montague •: Imit. First Sat. Horace. Bk. ii. 



SATIRE. 485 

Though folly, robed in purple, shines, 
Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, 
Yet shall they tremble and turn pale 
When satire wields her mighty flail. 

4427 Churchill: Ghost. Bk. iii. Line 923. 
Euough of satire; in less harden'd times 

Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes. 
I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave, 
Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave ; 
Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms 
From her one line, than from a world in arms. 

4428 Churchill : Candidate. Line 155. 
Why should we fear? and what? The laws? 

They all are armed in Virtue's cause ; 
And" aiming at the self-same end, 
Satire is always Virtue's friend. 

4429 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. iii. Line 943. 
When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, 

Short is her life, and impotent her sting; 
But when to truth allied, the wound she gives 
Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives. 

4430 Churchill: Author. Line 217. 
Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway 

The mind of man, must always make her way; 

Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, 

Is all her malice worth a single thought. 

The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, 

To stop her headstrong course ; within the hour 

Left to herself, she dies ; opposing strife 

Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life. 

4431 Churchill : Author. Line 197. 
Instructive satire! true to virtue's cause! 

Thou shining supplement of public laws ! 

4432 Young : Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 11. 

If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man; 
'Tis dull to be as witty as you can. 
Satire recoils whenever charg'd too high ; 
Bound your own fame the fatal splinters fly ; 
As the soft plume gives swiftness to the dart, 
Good-breeding sends the satire to the heart. 

4433 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 161. 
Let satire less engage you than applause ; 

It shows a generous mind to wink at flaws. 

4434 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 153. 
Prepare for rhyme — I'll publish, right or wrong ; 

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. 

4435 Byron : Eng. Bards. Line 5 



486 SA TIRE — S CAN DAL. 

Most satirists are indeed a public scourge ; 
Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge ; 
Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, 
The milk of their good purpose all to curd. 
Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, 
By lean despair upon an empty purse. 

4436 Cowper : Charity. Line 501 
When scandal has new-minted an old lie, 

Or tax'd iuvention for a fresh supply, 

'Tis call'd a satire, and the world appears 

Gathering around it with erected ears; 

A thousand names are toss'd into the crowd, 

Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, 

Just as the sapience of an author's brain, 

Suggests it safe or daugerous to be plain. 

4437 Cowper : Charity. Line 513. 
In general satire, every man perceives 

A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves. 

4438 Crabbe : Advice. Line 244. 

SATISFACTION. 
He is well paid, that is well satisfied. 

4439 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

SAVIOUR (OUR). 

Of all creation first, 
Begotten Son, Divine Similitude, 
In whose conspicuous count'nance, without cloud 
JVLxde visible, th' Almighty Father shines, 
Whom else no creature can behold : on Thee 
Impress'd, th' effulgence of His glory abides ; 
Transfused on Thee His ample spirit rests. 
He Heav'n of heav'ns, and all the Powers therein. 
By Thee created. 

4440 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iii. Line 383. 

SCANDAL — see Satire, Slander, Society. 
Flavia, most tender of her own good name, 
Is rather careless of her sister's fame ! 
Her superfluity the poor supplies, 
But if she touch a character it dies. 

4441 Cowper : Charity. Line 453. 
He rams his quill with scandal and with scofl', 

But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. 

4442 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 199. 
What is a scandal of the first renown, 

But letter'd knaves and atheists in a gow T n? 

4443 Young: Epis. to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 6L 



S CAN DAL — S CEP TICISM. 48 7 

You know 
That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, 
And after scandal them. 

4444 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act i. Sc. 2. 
The whole court melted into one wide whisper. 

And all lips were applied unto all ears ! 
The elder ladies' wrinkles curled much crisper 
As they beheld; the younger cast some leers 
On one another, and each lovely lisper 
Smiled as she talked the matter o'er : but tears 
Of rivals hip rose in each clouded eye 
Of all the standing army that stood by. 

4445 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ix. St. 78= 
The circle smil'cl, then whisper'd, and then sneer'd : 

The misses bridled, and the matrons frown'd: 
Some hoped things might not turn out as they fear'd : 
Some would not deem such women could be found : 
Some ne'er believ'd one half of what they heard : 
Some look'd perplex'd, and others look'd profound: 
And several pitied, with sincere regret, 
Poor Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet. 

4446 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 44. 
SCARS. 

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 

4447 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2, 
SCEPTICISM — see Learning-, Infidelity. 

Let no presuming impious railer tax 
Creative Wisdom, as if aught was formed 
In vain, or not for admirable ends, 
Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce 
His works unwise, of which the smallest part 
Exceeds the narrow vision of her mind. 

4448 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 285. 
This a sacred rule we find 

Among the nicest of mankind, 
(Which never might exception brook 
From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) 
To doubt of facts, however true, 
Unless they know the causes too. 

4449 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. ii. Line 355. 
Oh ! lives there, Heaven ! beneath thy dread expanse, 
One hopeless, dark idolater of chance, 

Content to feed with pleasures unretin'd, 

The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind ; 

Who mouldering earthward, 'reft of every trust, 

In joyless union wedded to the dust, 

Could all his parting energy dismiss, 

And call this barren world sufficient bliss? 

4450 Campbell: PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 295. 



488 SCHISMATICS — SCHOOL. 

SCHISMATICS. 

Our schismatics so vastly differ, 
The hotter they're they grow the stiffer; 
Still setting off their spiritual goods, 
With iieree and pertinacious feuds : 
For zeal's a dreadful termagant, 
That teaches saints to tear and rant. 

4451 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 673. 
SCHOLARSHIP — see Authors, Character. 

I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. 

4452 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
SCHOOL — see Boyhood, Education. 

Alas ! regardless of their doom, 
The little victims play, 
No sense have they of ills to come, 
No care beyond to-day. 

4453 Gray : Ode. On Eton College. St. 6. 
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! 

Ah ! fields belov'd in vain ! 

Where once my careless childhood stray 'd, 

A stranger yet to pain ! 

I feel the gales that from ye blow, 

A momentary bliss bestow, 

As waving fresh their gladsome w 7 ing, 

My weary soul they seem to soothe, 

And, redolent of joy and youth, 

To breathe a second spring. 

4454 Gray : Ode. On Eton College. St. 2. 
Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, 

With blossom'd furze unprofitable gay, 
There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, 
The village master taught his little school ; 
A man severe he was, and stern to view, — 
I knew him well, and every truant knew ; 
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace 
The clay's disasters in his morning face. 

4455 croldsmith : Des. Village. Line 193 
To every class we have a school assign'd, 

Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind : 
Yet one there is, that small regard to rule 
Or study pays, and still is cleem'd a school; 
That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits, 
And awes some thirty infants as she knits ; 
Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay 
Some trifling price for freedom through the day. 
At this good matron's hut the children meet, 
Who thus becomes the mother of the street. 

4456 Crabbe : Schools. Line 1. 



SCIENCE — SCORN. 489 

SCIENCE — see Genius, Knowledge. 

Trace science then, with modesty thy guide; 

First strip off all her equipage of pride ; 

Deduct what is but vanity, or dress, 

Or learning's luxury, or idleness ; 

Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, 

Mere curious pleasure, or ingenious pain ; 

Expunge the whole, or lop th' excrescent parts 

Of all our vices have created arts ; 

Then see how little the remaining sum 

Which serv'cl the past, and must the times to come. 

4457 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 43. 
What cannot art and industry perform, 

When science plans the progress of their toil ! 

4458 Beattie : Minstrel. Bk. ii. St. 54. 

star-eyed Science ! hast thou wander'cl there, 
. To waft us home the message of despair? 

4459 - Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 325. 
Blessings on Science, and her handmaid Steam! 

They make Utopia only half a dream ; 
And show the fervent, of capacious souls, 
Who watch the ball of Progress as it rolls, 
That all as yet completed, or begun, 
Is but the dawning that precedes the sun. 

4460 Charles Mackay : Bailways. Line 43. 
Blessings on Science ! When the earth seem'd old, 
AVhen Eaith grew doting, and the Reason cold, 

'Twas she discover'd that the world was young, 
And taught a language to its lisping tongue : 
'Twas she disclosed a future to its view, 
And made old knowledge pale before the new. 

4461 Charles Mackay : Bailways. Line 27 

SCORN. 

Scorn at first, makes after-love the more. 

4462 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. 

4463 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

1 had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. 

4464 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Alas ! to make me 

The fixed figure of the time, for scorn 
To point his slow and moving finger at. 

4465 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
So let him stand, through ages yet unborn, 

Eix'd statue on the pedestal of scorn ! 

4466 Byron : Curse of Minerva. Liue 207. 



490 SCORN— SCRIBBLE RS. 

Know ye not, then, said Satan, fill'd with scorn, 
Know ye not me? Ye knew me once no mate 
For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar : 
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. 

4467 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 827. 
He hears, 

On all sides, from innumerable tongues, 
A dismal universal hiss, the sound 
Of public scorn. 

4468 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 506. 

SCOTLAND. 

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride, 
True is the charge, nor by themselves denied, 
Are they not, then, in strictest reason clear, 
Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here. 

4469 Churchill : Prophecy of Famine. Line 195. 
O Caledonia! stern and wild, 

Meet nurse for a poetic child ! 

Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, 

Land of the mountain and the flood, 

Land of my sires ! what mortal hand 

Can e'er untie the filial band, 

That knits me to thy rugged strand ! 

4470 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. St. 2. 

Scotia ! my dear, my native soil ! 

For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent ! 

Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil 

Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content. 

4471 Burns : Cotter's Saturday Night. St. 20. 
And though, as you remember, in a fit 

Of wrath and rhyme, when juvenile and curly, 

1 railed at Scots to show my wrath and wit, 
Which must be owned was sensitive and surly, 
Yet 'tis in vain such sallies to permit, 

They cannot quench young feelings fresh and early : 
I " scotched, not killed" the Scotchman in my blood, 
And love the laud of " mountain and of flood." 

4472 Byron : Don Juan. Canto x. St. 19. 
SCRIBBLERS — see Authors, Critics. 

Who shames a scribbler? Break one cobweb through, 
He spins the slight, self -pleasing thread anew : 
Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain. 
The creature's at his dirty work again. 

4473 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 89. 
Laugh when I laugh, I seek no other fame, 

The cry is up, and scribblers are my game. 

4474 Byron : English Bards. Line 43 



SCULPTURE — SEA. 491 

SCCTLPTURE. 

Sculpture is more diviue, and more like Nature, 
That fashions all her works in high relief, 
And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, 
Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire ; 
Men, women, and all animals that breathe 
Are statues, and not paintings. Even the plauts 
Are colored later. Painting is a lie, 
A shadow merely. 

4475 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. i. 5. 
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater 

To raise the dead to life than to create 
Phantoms that seem to live. The most majestic 
Of the three sister arts is that which builds ; 
The eldest of them all, to whom the others 
Are but the handmaids and the servitors, 
Beiug but imitation, not creation. 

4476 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. i. 5. 
A sculptor wields 

The chisel, and the stricken marble grows 
To beauty. 

4477 William Cidlen Bryant : Flood of Years. 

SEA — see Ocean, Sailors, Sea-sickness, Sea-weed, Ship- 
ping 1 , Storm, Swimming-, Waves. 

I saw a thousand fearful wracks : 

A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon : 

Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, 

Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, 

All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. 

Some lay in dead men's skulls ; and in those holes 

Where eyes did once inhabit there were crept, 

As 'twere in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, 

That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, 

And mock'cl the dead bones that lay scatter'd by. 

4478 Shales. : Richard IIL. Act i. Sc. 4. 
He knows enough, the mariner, who knows 

AVhere lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, 
What signs portend the storm : to subtler minds 
He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause 
Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave ; 
Whence those impetuous currents in the main 
Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why 
The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure 
As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven. 

4479 Armstrong : A. of Preserving Health. Bk. iii. Line 232. 
Oh! what can sanctify the joys of home, 

Like hope's gay glance from ocean's troubled foam. 

4480 Byron : Corsair. Canto iii. St. 18. 



492 SEA — SEA -WEED. 

O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, 
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, 
Ear as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 
Survey our empire, and behold our home ! 
These are our realms, no limits to their sway, 
Our flag the sceptre, all who meet obey. 

4481 Bijron : Corsair. Canto i. St. 1. 
There shrinks no ebb in that tideless sea, 

Which chaugeless rolls eternally ; 
So that wildest of waves, in their angriest mood, 
Scarce break on the bounds of the land for a rood ; 
And the powerless moon beholds them flow, 
Heedless if she come or go. 

4482 Byron : Siege of Corinth. St. 16. 
The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! 

The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! 
Without a mark, without a bound, 
It runneth the earth's wide region round ; 
It plays with the clouds ; it mocks the skies ; 
Or like a cradled creature lies. 

4483 Barry Cornwall : The Sea. 

SEA-SICKNESS. 

The best of remedies is a beef-steak 
Against sea-sickuess ; try- it, sir, before 
You sneer, and I assure you this is true, 
For I have found it answer — so may you. 

4484 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 13. 

SEA-WEED. 
A weary weed, toss'd to and fro, 
Drearily drench'd in the ocean brine, 
Soaring high and sinking low, 
Lashed along without will of mine, — 
Sport of the spoom of the surging sea, 
Flung on the foam afar and anear, 
Mark my manifold mystery, — 
Growth and grace in their place appear. 

4485 Cornelius G-. Fenner : Gulf-Weed, 
We entered the great deep. . . . 

Here were mighty groves 
Far down the ocean-valleys, and between 
Lay what might seem fair meadows, softly tinged 
With orange and Avith crimson. Here arose 
Tall stems, that, rooted in the depths below, 
Swung idly with the motions of the sea; 
And here were shrubberies in whose mazy screen 
The creatures of the deep made haunt. 
448G William Cullen Bryant : Sella. Line 134. 



SEASONS. 40.9 

SEASONS — see Autumn, Spring", Summer, Winter. 
How many things by season seasoned are 
To their right praise, and true perfection ! 

4487 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The Summer comes and the Summer goes; 
"Wild-flowers are fringing the dusty lanes, 

The swallows go darting through fragrant rains, 
Then, all of a sudden — it snows. 

4488 T. B. Aldrich : Love's Calendar. 
O, Winter ! Put away thy snowy pride ; 

O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell; 
O, Summer ! Throw thy pears and plums aside ; 
O, Autumn ! Bid the grape with poison swell. 

4489 Chatterton : February. St. 17. 
Perceiv'st thou not the process of the year, 

How the four seasons in four forms appear, 

Resembling human life in ev'ry shape they wear? 

Spring first, like infancy, shoots out her head, 

With milky juice requiring to be fed : . . . 

Proceeding onward whence the year began, 

The Summer grows adult, and ripens into man. . . . 

Autumn succeeds, a sober, tepid age, 

ISot froze with fear, nor boiling into rage ; . . . 

Last, Winter creeps along with tardy pace, 

Sour is his front, and furrowed is his face. 

4490 Dryden : Of Pythagorean Phil. From loth Book Ovid's 

[Metamorphoses. Line 296. 
These, as they change, Almighty Father, these 
Are but the varied God. The rolling year 
Is full of Thee. Porth in the pleasing Spring 
Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and love. 

Then comes Thy glory in the Summer months, 
With light and heat refulgent. Then Thy sun 
Shoots full perfection through the swelling year; 

Thy bounty shines in Autumn unconfined, 
And spreads a common feast for all that live. 
In Winter awful Thou ! with clouds and storms 
Around Thee throwu, tempest o'er tempest roll'd, 
Majestic darkness ! on the whirlwind's wing, 
Riding sublime. 

4491 Thomson: Hymn. Line 1. 
When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil ; 
When summer's balmy showers refresh the mower's toil ; 
When winter binds in frosty chains the fallow and the flood, 
In God the earth rejoiceth still, and owns his Maker good. 

4492 Heber : Seventh Sunday after Trinity. 



494 SEASONS — SECURITY. 

Autumn: wheezy, sncezy, freezy; 
Winter: slippy, drippy, nippy; 
Spring: showery, flowery, bowery; 
Summer : hoppy, croppy, poppy. 

4493 John Brady : Claris Calendaria. Kalendar. 

SECRECY — see Love. 
Be innocent of the knowledge, clearest chuck, 
Till thou applaud the deed. 

4494 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

'Tis in my memory lock'd, 
And you yourself shall keep the key of it. 

4495 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Be thou assur'd, if words be made of breath, 
And breath of life, I have no life to breathe 
What thou hast said to me. 

4496 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iil. Sc. 4. 

And now I will unclasp a secret book, 
And to your quick- conceiving discontents, 
I'll read you matter deep and dangerous. 

4497 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV Act i. Sc. 3. 
I will believe 

Thou wilt not utter what thou clost not know; 
And so far will I trust thee. 

4498 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

He deserves small trust, 
Who is not privy-counsellor to himself. 

4499 Ford : Broken Heart. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

A secret in his mouth, 
Is like a wild bird put into a cage, 
Whose door no sooner opens, but 'tis out. 

4500 Ben Jonson : Case is Altered. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

SECTS— see Creed, Saints. 
But since our sects in prophecy grow higher, 
The text inspires not them, but they the text inspire. 

4501 Dryden : Medal. Line 165. 

His liberal soul with every sect agreed, 
Unheard their reasons, he received their creed. 

4502 Crabbe : Tales. Convert. Line 45. 

SECURITY. 

You all know, security 
Is mortal's chiefest enemy. 

4503 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 5 



SEDITION— SELFISHNESS. 495 

SEDITION — see Treason. 

The vile vulgar, ever discontent, 

Their growing fears in secret murmurs vent ; 

Still prone to change, though still the slaves of state, 

And sure the monarch whom they have, to hate. 

4504 Pope : Statins' s TJiebais. Bk. i. Line 225 

Methinks I hear the bellowing demagogue 

Dumb-sounding declamations disembogue, 

Expressions of immeasurable length, 

Where pompous jargon fills the place of strength; 

Where fulminating, rumbling eloquence, 

With loud theatric rage, bombards the sense ; 

And words, deep rank'cl in horrible array, 

Exasperated metaphors convey ! 

With these auxiliaries, drawn up at large, 

He bids enraged sedition beat the charge. 

4505 Falconer : Demagogue. Line 400. 

SELFISHNESS — see Self -Love. 

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, 

No one will change his neighbor with himself : 

The learn'd is happy nature to explore, 

The fool is happy that he knows no more ; 

The rich is happy in the plenty given, 

The poor contents him with the care of heaven. 

4506 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 261. 

Despite those titles, power and pelf, 
The wretch, concentred all in self, 
Living, shall forfeit fair renown, 
And, doubly dying, shall go down 
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. 

4507 Scott : Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto vi. St. 1. 

Explore the dark recesses of the mind, 
In the soul's houest volume read mankind, 
And own, in wise and simple, great and small, 
The same grand leading principle in all ; 



For parent and for child, for wife and friend, 
Our first great mover, and our last great end 
Is one ; and by whatever name we call 
The ruling tyrant, Self, is all in all. 

4508 Churchill : Conference. Line 167. 

How pleased is every paltry elf 
To prate about that thing, himself ! 

4509 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. iii. Line 957. 



496 SELFISHNESS — SELF-DENIAL. 

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, 
O'er which philosophers in raptures dream ; 
Of which with seeming disregard the}- write 
Then prizing most when most they seem to slight. 

4510 Churchill: Candidate. Line 117 
Glory, built 

On selfish principles, is shame and guilt; 
The deeds that men admire as half divine, 
Stark naught, because corrupt in their design. 

4511 Cowper: Table Talk. Line 1. 

SELF-CONCEIT. 

To observations which ourselves we make, 
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake. 

4512 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 2. 

While tumbling down the turbid stream, 
Lord love us, how we apples swim. 1 

4513 Mallet: Tyburn. 

SELF-CONTROL. 

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, 
These three alone lead life to sovereign power. 

4514 Tennyson : JEnone. Line 144. 

May I govern my passions with absolute sway, 

And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away, 

... by a gentle decay. 

4515 Dr. Walter Pope : The Old Man's Wish. Chorus. 

SELF-DEFENCE — see Caution. 
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; 
But, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just. 

4516 Shaks. :' Timon of A. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on; 
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood. 

4517 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Self-defence is a virtue, 

Sole bulwark of all right. 

4518 Byron: Sardanapalus, Act ii. Sc. 1. 

SELF-DENIAL. 
Brave conquerors ! for so you are, 
That war against your own affections, 
And the huge army of the world's desires. 

4519 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. I 

1 See Swift's Brother Protestants. Line 14. 



SELF-DEPENDENCE — SELF-RE SPE CT. 497 

SELF-DEPENDENCE. 
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 
Which we ascribe to Heaven ; the fated sky- 
Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward pull 
Our slow designs, when we ourselves ar^ dull. 

4520 Shaks. : All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1. 
He who depends upon his wind and limbs, 

Needs neither cork or bladder when he swims ; 
Nor will by empty breath be puff d along, 
As not himself — but in his helpers — strong. 

4521 Crabbe: Tales. Convert. Line 11. 

SELF-IMPORTANCE. 

Of all the fools that pride can boast, 
A coxcomb claims distinction most. 

4522 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 5. 

SELF-KNOWLEDGE — .see Knowledge, Man. 
That man must daily wiser grow, 
Whose search is bent himself to know. 

4523 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 5. 
Man, know thyself ! all wisdom centres there ! 

4524 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 484. 
Man's science is the culture of his heart ; 

And not to lose his plummet in the depths 
Of nature, or the more profound of God. 

4525 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 1861. 
To know thyself — in others self-concern ; 

Would'st thou know others? read thyself — and learn! 

4526 Schiller : Votive Tablets. The Key. 

SELF-LOVE — see Selfishness. 

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 
As self-neglecting. 

4527 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; 
Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 

Man, but for that, no action could attend, 
And, but for this, were active to no end : 
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, 
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; 
Or, meteor-like, flame lawless thro' the void, 
Destroying others, by himself destroy'd. 

4528 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 59, 

SELF-RESPECT. 
He that respects himself is safe from others ; 
He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. 

4529 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 3, 



498 SELF-RESPECT— SENSIBILITY. 

Patience, ancl abnegation of self, and devotion to others, 
This was the lesson a life of trial and sorrow had taught her. 

4530 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. ii. v. Line 31. 

SENSE. 

Something there is more needful than expense, 
And something previous even to taste — 'tis sense : 
Good sense which only is the gift of heav'h, 
And though no science, fairly worth the seven. 

4531 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iv. Line 41. 



SENSIBILITY — see Blushing-, Music. 
Our sensibilities are so acute, 
The fear of being silent makes us mute. 

4532 Cowper : Conversation. Line 351. 

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, 
Ancl the young winds fed it with silver dew, 
And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, 
And closed them beneath the kisses of night. 

4533 Shelley : The Sensitive Plant- Pt. i. 

O why are farmers made so coarse, 
Or clergy made so fine? 
A kick, that scarce would move a horse, 
May kill a sound divine. 

4534 Cowper : Yearly Distress. St. 16. 

Sweet sensibility ! thou keen delight ! 
Unprompted moral ! sudden sense of right ! 
Perception exquisite ! fair virtue's seed ! 
Thou quick precursor of the liberal deed ! 
Thou hasty conscience ! reason's blushing morn! 
Instinctive kindness, ere reflection's born ! 
Prompt sense of equity ! to thee belongs 
The swift redress of unexamin'd wrongs ! 
Eager to serve, the cause perhaps untried, 
But always apt to choose the suffering side ! 

4535 Hannah More : Sensibility. Line 227. 

Where bright imagination reigns, 

The fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains ; 

Where glow exalted sense and taste refin'd, 

There keener anguish rankles in the mind : 

There feeling is diffus'd through every part, 

Thrills in each nerve, and lives in all the heart ; 

And those whose gen'rous souls each tear would keep 

Prom others' eyes, are born themselves to weep. 

4536 Hannah More : Sensibility. Line 67 



SEPARA TION— SER VICE. 499 

SEP ARATION — see Adieu, Farewell, Parting 1 . 
The limner's art may trace the absent feature, 
And give the eye of distant weeping faith 
To view the form of its idolatry ; 
But oh ! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted ; 
The thoughts — the recollections sweet and bitter, — 
Th' Elysian dreams of lovers, when they loved, — 
Who shall restore them? 

4537 Maturin : Bertram, i. 5. 
Thy soul . . . 

Is as far from my grasp, is as free, 

As the stars from the mountain-tops be, 

As the pearl in the depths of the sea, 

From the portionless king that would wear it. 

4538 E. C. Stedman: Stanzas for Music. St. 3. 

SERENADE — see Music, Singing-. 

Silence, ye wolves ! while Ealph to Cynthia howls, 
And makes night hideous ; — answer him, ye owls. 

4539 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. iii. Line 165. 

SERMONS — see Preaching, Worship. 

That from your meetings I refrain, is true ; 
I meet with nothing pleasant — nothing new ; 
But the same proofs, that not one text explain, 
And the same lights, where all things dark remain. 

4540 Crabbe : Tales. Convert. Line 262. 

SERVICE — see Favor. 

I have done the state some service, and they know it. 

4541 Shaks. : Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal 

I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

4542 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
— From the king 

To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants ; 
And you must grant, the slavery is less 
To study to please one, than many. 

4543 Massinger : Unnatural Combat. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
And ye shall succor men ; 

'Tis nobleness to serve ; 

Help them who cannot help again : 

Beware from right to swerve. 

4544 Emerson: Boston Hymn. St. 13 
From kings to cobblers 'tis the same ; 

Bad servants wound their masters' fame. 

4545 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 6 



500 SE J r ERl T Y— SHAKESPEARE. 

SEVERITY. 

With common men 
There needs too oft the show of war to keep 
The substance of sweet peace ; and for a king, 
'Tis sometimes better to be fear'd than loved. 

4546 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2. 

SEXTON — see Funeral, Grave. 

See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, 

The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle ! 

Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole 

A gentle tear; with mattock in his hand, 

Digs thro' whole rows of kindred and acquaintance 

By far his juniors ! Scarce a skull's cast up 

But well he knew its owner, and can tell 

Some passage of his life. 

4547 Blair : Grave. Line 452. 

SHADOW. 

Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, 
That I may see my shadow as I pass. 

4548 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Show his eyes, and grieve his heart; 

Come like shadows, so depart. 

4549 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Some there be that shadows kiss, 

Such have but a shadow's bliss. 

4550 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. 
The very shadows seem to listen. 

4551 Anna Katharine Green : The Leavenworth Case. 

[Ch. xii. 
Across the singing waves the shadows creep. 

4552 Celia Thaxter : Expectation. St. 11. 

SHAKESPEARE. 

Soul of the age ! 
Th' applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! 
My Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by 
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 
A little further, to make thee room ; 
Thou art a monumeut, without a tomb, 
And art alive still, while thy book doth live, 
And we have wits to read, and praise to give. 

4553 Ben Jonson : Underwoods. To the Mem. of Shakespeare. 
He was not of an age but for all time. 

4554 Ben Jonson : Underwoods. To the Mem. of Shakespeare. 
Sweet Swan of Avon ! 

4555 Ben Jonson : Underwoods. To the Mem. of Shakespeare. 



SHAKESPEARE. 501 

What needs my Shakespeare for his honor'd bones, 
The labor of au age in piled stones? 



Thou in our wonder and astonishment 
Hast built thyself a livelong monument. 

4556 Milton: On Shakespeare. 
Shakespeare's magic could not copied be ; 

Within that circle none durst walk but he. 

4557 Dryden: The Tempest. Prologue. 
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play'd, 

And wonder'd at the work herself had made. 

4558 Churchill: Author. Line 61. 
In the first seat, in robe of various dyes, 

A noble wildness flashing from his eyes, 

Sat Shakespeare : in one hand a wand he bore, 

For mighty wonders f am'd in days of yore : 

The other held a globe, which to his will 

Obedient turn'd, and own'd the master's skill: 

Things of the noblest kind his genius drew, 

And look'd through nature at a single view : 

A loose he gave to his unbounded soul, 

And taught new lauds to rise, new seas to roll ; 

Call'd into being scenes unknown before, 

And passing nature's bounds, was something more. 

4559 Churchill: Bosciad. Line 259. 
Happy in tragic and in comic powers, 

Have we not Shakespeare? is not Jonson ours? 
For them, your natural judges, Britons, vote; 
They'll judge like Britons, who like Britons wrote. 

4560 Churchill: Bosciad. Line 223. 
Shakespeare (whom you and every playhouse bill 

Style the divine, the matchless, what you will) 
For gain, not glory, wing'd his roving flight, 
And grew immortal in his own despite. 

4561 Pope : Satire v. Line 69. 
There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb 

The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime, 
With tears and laughters for all time ! 

4562 Mrs. Browning : Vision of Poets. St. 101. 
"When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes 

First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose ; 
Each change of many-colored life he drew, 
Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new; 
Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, 
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain, 
His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, 
And unresisted Passion storm'cl the breast. 

4563 Dr. Johnson: Prol. at Opening of Drury L. Theatre, 

[1747. Line 1- 



502 SHAME — SHIPPING. 

SHAME. 
O, shame! where is thy blush? 

4564 Shales. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4k 
When knaves aud fools combin'd o'er all prevail, 

When justice halts, and right begins to fail, 
E'en then the boldest start from public sneers, 
Afraid of shame — unknown to other fears. 
More darkly siu, by satire kept in awe, 
And shrink from ridicule, though not from law. 

4565 Byron : English Bards. Line 31. 

SHERIDAN. 
Long shall we seek his likeness — long in vain, 
And turn to all of him which may remain, 
Sighiug that nature form'd but one such man, 
And broke the die — in moulding Sheridan. 

4566 Byron : Monody on the Death of Sheridan. Last lines. 

SHIPPING — see Sailors, Sea, Shipwreck. 
Behold the threadeu sails, 
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, 
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow 'd sea, 
Breasting the lofty surge. 

4567 , Shales. : Henry V. Act iii. Chorus. 
A rotten carcass of a boat, not rigged, 

Nor tackle, sail, nor mast ; the very rats 
Instinctively have quit it. 

4568 Shaks. : Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Upon the gale she stoop'd her side, 
And bounded o'er the swelling tide, 
As she were dancing home : 
The merry seamen laugh'd to see 
Their gallant ship so lustily 
Furrow the green sea-foam. 

4569 Scott : Marmion. Canto ii. St. 1. 
Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, 

To furnish and accommodate a world, 
To give the Pole the produce of the sun, 
And knit th' unsocial climates into one. 

4570 Cowper : Charity. Line 123. 
How gloriously her gallant course she goes ! 

Her white wings flying — never from her foes; 

She walks the Avaters like a thing of life, 

And seems to dare the elements to strife. 

Who would not brave the battle-fire — the wreck — ■ 

To move the monarch of her peopled deck? 

4571 Byron ; Corsair. Canto i. St. 3 



SHIPPING — SHIP WRECK. 503 

Like sister sails that drift at night 
Together on the deep, 
Seen only where they cross the light 
That pathless waves must pathlike keep 
From fisher's signal fire, or pharos steep. 

4572 Ruskin : TJie Broken Chain. Pt. v. St. 25, 

SHIPWRECK — see Sea, Sailors. 

I saw him beat the surges under him, 

And ride upon their backs ; he trod the water, 

Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted 

The surge most swol'n that met him ; his bold head 

'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd 

Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke 

To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd, 

As stooping to relieve him. 

4573 Shaks.: Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
0, I have suffer'd 

With those that I saw suffer ! a brave vessel, 
Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, 
Dash'd all to pieces. 0, the cry did knock 
Against my very heart ! poor souls ! they perish'd. 

4574 Shaks. : Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. 
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail 

Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale. 

4575 Herrick : Aph. Shipwreck. 
What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore : 
Ships have been drown'd where late they dane'd before. 

4576 Herrick: Aph. Safety on the Shore. 
Lashed furious by destiny severe, 

The ship hangs hovering on the verge of death, 
Hell yawns, rocks rise, and breakers roar beneath! 

In vain, alas ! the sacred shades of yore 
Would arm the mind with philosophic lore, 
In vain they'd teach us, at the latest breath, 
To smile serene amid the pangs of death. 

4577 Falconer : Shipwreck. Canto iii. Line 609, 
Again she plunges ! hark ! a second shock 

Bilges the splitting Vessel on the Rock — 

Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries 

The fated victims shuddering cast their ej^es, 

In wild despair; while yet another stroke, 

With strong convulsion rends the solid oak : 

Ah Heaven ! — behold her crashing ribs divide ! 

She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the Tide. 

4578 Falconer : Shipwreck. Canto iii. Line 642 



504 SHIPWRECK— SIGHS. 

Some went to prayers again, aucl made a vow 
Of candles to their saints, — but there were none 
To pay them with; and some look'd o'er the bow; 
Some hoisted out the boats ; and there was one 
That begg'd Pedrillo for au absolution, 
Who told him to be damn'd, — in his confusion. 

4579 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 44 
Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, 

Then shriek'd the timid, and stood still the brave, 
Then some leap'd overboard with dreadful yell, 
' As eager to anticipate the grave ; 
And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, 
And down she suck'd with her the whirling wave. 

4580 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 52. 

SHOES. 
Let firm, well-hammer'd soles protect thy feet, 
Thro' freezing snows, and rain, and soaking sleet ; 
Should the big last extend the sole too wide, 
Each stone will wrench th' unwary step aside ; 
The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, 
Thy cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; 
And when too short the modish shoes are worn, 
You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn. 

4581 Gay: Trivia. Bk. i. Line 33. 

SHORT-HAND. 
These lines and dots are locks and kej^s, 
In narrow space to treasure thought, 
Whose precious hoards, whene'er you please, 
Are thus to light from darkness brought. 

4582 James Montgomery : Short-Hand. 

SICKNESS— see Diseases, Doctors. 
Lemira's sick ; make haste, the doctor call, 
He comes : but where's his patient? — at the ball; 
The doctor stares ; her woman curtsies low, 
And cries, " My lady, sir, is always so : 
Diversions put her maladies to flight; 
True, she can't stand, but she can dance all night: 
I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) 
For fevers take an opera in June : 
And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, 
A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold." 

4583 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 179, 

SIGHS — see Love. 

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, 
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. 

4584 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 57 



'SIGHS - SILENCE. 505 

But sighs subside, and tears (e'en widows') shrink, 
Like Arno in the summer, to a shallow 
So narrow as to shame their wintry brink, 
Which threatens inundations deep and yellow ! 
Such cliffrence do a few months make. You'd think 
Grief a rich field that never would lie fallow ; 
No more it doth; its ploughs but change their boys, 
Who furrow some new soil to sow for joys. 

4585 Byron : Don Juan. Canto x. St. 7, 
He sighed ; — the next resource is the full moon, 

Where all sighs are deposited ; and now 
It happen'd luckily, the chaste orb shone. 

4586 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xvi. St. 13. 

SIGNS. 

Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish: 

A vapor, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 

A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, 

A forked mountain, or blue promontory 

With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, 

And mock our ejes with air : thou hast seen these signs ; 

They are black vesper's pageants. 

4587 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iv. Sc. 12, 

SILENCE — see Sabbath, Stillness, Storm. 
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : 
I were but little happy, if I could say how much. 

4588 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
O, my Antonio, I do know of these, 

That therefore only are reputed wise, 
For saying nothing. 

4589 * Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Silence is only commendable 
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. 

4590 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. i 
Silence often of pure innocence 

Persuades, when speaking fails. 

4591 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Silence in love bewrays more woe 

Than words, tho' ne'er so witty; 
A beggar that is dumb, you know, 
May challenge double pity ! 

4592 Sir Walter Baleigh : Silent Lover. St. 6» 
Silence more musical than any song. 

4593 Christina G. Bossetti : Best. 
Silence in woman is like speech in man. 

4594 Ben Jonson : Silent Woman. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



506 SILENCE — SIMILARITY. 

When wit and reason both have f ail'cl to move 
Kind looks and actions, (from success) do prove 
Ev'n silence may be eloquent in love. 

4595 Congreve : Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 9. 
Silence ! coeval with eternity. 

Thou wert ere nature's self began to be ; 

'Twas one vast nothing, all, and all slept fast in thee ; 

But couldst thou seize some tongues that now are free, 

How church and state should be obliged to thee ! 

At senate, and at bar, how welcome wouldst thou be ! 

4596 Pope : Imitation of the Earl of Rochester. 
Be silent always, when you doubt your sense, 

And speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence. 

4597 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 7. 
Down through the starry intervals, 

Upon this weary-laden world, 
How soft the soul of Silence falls ! 
Hoav deep the spell wherewith she thralls, 
How wide her mantle is unfurled. 

4598 Mary Clemmer : Silence. 
Of all our loving Father's gifts, 

I often wonder which is best, — 
And cry : Dear God, the one that lifts 
Our soul from weariness to rest, 
The rest of Silence, — that is best. 

4599 Mary Clemmer: Silence. 
God's poet is silence ! His song is unspoken, 

And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, 

It fill's you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, 

And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. 

4G00 Joaquin Miller : Isles of the Amazons. Pt. i. St. 46. 
Let me silent be ; 
For silence is the speech of love, 
The music of the spheres above. 

4601 P. II. Stoddard : Speech of Love. 

You know 
There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, 
More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. 
It is when the heart has an instinct of what 
In the heart of another is passing. 

4602 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto i. St. 20 

SIMILARITY— see BasMulness, Chastity. 
Like will to like : each creature loves his kind, 
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. 

4603 Herrick : Aph. Like Loves His Like 



SIMPLICITY— SINCERITY. 50 7 

SIMPLICITY— see Beauty, Folly, Indifference. 
To me more dear, congenial to my heart, 
One native charm, than all the gloss of art. 

4604 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 255, 

SIN — see Crime, Vice. 

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 

4605 Shaks. : M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

One sin, I know, another doth provoke ; 
Murder's as near to lust, as flame to smoke. 

4606 Shaks.: Pericles. Act i. Sc 1. 

He is no man on whom perfections wait, 
That, knowing sin within, will touch the gate. 

4607 Shaks. : Pericles. Act i. Sc. 1. 
I am a man 

More sinn'd against than sinning. 

4608 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

O, what authority, and show of truth 
Can cunning sin cover itself withal ! 

4609 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

There is a method in man's wickedness ; 
It grows up by degrees. 

4610 Beaumont & Fletcher : King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4. 

The knowledge of my sin 
Is half-repentance. 

4611 Bayard, Taylor: Lars. Bk. ii. 

Drudgery and knowledge are of a kin, 
And both descended from one parent sin. 

4612 Butler : Sat.on the Licentious Age of Chas. II. Line 181. 

In lashing sin, of every stroke beware, 

Tor sinners feel, and sinners you must spare. 

4613 Crabbe : Tales. Advice. Line 242. 

SINCERITY — see Candor, Faith, Fidelity, Honesty. 
His nature is too noble for the world : 
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, 
Or Jove f or's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth • 
What his breast forges that his tongue must vent.. 

4614 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right 
with falsehood. 

4615 T upper : Proverbial Phil. Of Tolerance. 
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. 

4616 Henry Vaughan : Pules and Lessons 



508 SINGING. 

SINGING— see Music, Voice. 
At every close she made, th' attending throng 
Replied, and bore the burden of the soug : 
So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note, 
It seem'd the music melted in the throat. 

4617 Dryden : Flower and the Leaf. Line 197 

The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, 
And for the bass, the beast can only bellow ; 
In fact, he had no singing education, 
An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow; 
But being the prima donna's near relatiou, 
Who swore his voice was very rich and mellow, 
They hired him, though to hear him you'd believe 
An ass was practising recitative. 

4618 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 87 

Sing, seraph with the glory ! heaven is high. 
Sing, poet with the sorrow ! earth is low. 
The universe's inward voices cry 
" Amen" to either song of joy and woe. 
Sing, seraph, poet ! sing on equally ! 

4619 Mrs. Browning : Sonnets. Seraph and Poet. 

When God helps all the workers for His world, 
The singers shall have help of Him, not last. 

4620 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. ii. Line 1303. 

Above the clouds I lift my wing- 
To hear the bells of Heaven ring ; 
Some of their music, though my nights be wild, 
To Earth I bring ; 
Then let me soar and sing ! 

4621 E. C. Stedman : The Singer. St. 2. 

I send my heart up to thee, all my heart 

In this my singing ! 

For the stars help me, and the sea bears part. 

4622 Robert Browning : In a Gondola. 
I do but sing because I must. 

And pipe but as the linnets sing. 

4623 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xxi. St. 6. 

Gocl sent his Singers upon earth 
With songs of sadness and of mirth, 
That they might touch the hearts of men, 
And bring them back to heaven again. 

4624 Longfellow : The Singers. St. 1. 
. . . Songs of that high art 

Which, as winds do in the pine, 
Find an answer in each heart. 

4625 Longfellow: Oliver Basselin. St 6 



SINGING — SLANDER. 501] 

Short swallow-flights of song, that clip 
Their wings . . . and skim away. 

4626 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xlvii. St. 4. 
The gift of Song was chiefly lent 

To give consoling music for the joys 

We lack, and not for those which we possess. 

4627 Bayard Taylor: Poet's Journal. Third Evening. 
Song forbids victorious deeds to die. 

4628 Schiller: Artists. St. 11. 
The lively Shadow-world of Song. 

4629 Schiller : Artists. St. 23, 
Songs are but sweet and skilful words, 

That tinkle unto certain chords, 
And are but born to die. 

4630 B. H. Stoddard : TJie Speech of Love. 

SINGULARITY. 
No two on earth in all things can agree ; 
All have some darling singularity : 
Women and men, as well as girls and boys, 
In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, 
Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, 
Are but a better kind of toys for kings. 
In things indifferent reason bids us choose, 
"Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse. 

4631 Churchill : Apology. Line 402. 

SKULL. 

Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, 
Its chambers desolate, its portals foul; 
Yes, this was once ambition's air}- hall, 
The dome of thought, the palace of the soul. 

4632 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 6. 

SKY — see Blue, Clouds, Rainbow, Stars, Sun, Sunrise, 
Sunset. 
The witchery of the soft blue sky. 

4633 ' Wordsworth : Peter Bell. Pt. i. St. 15. 

The blue sky 
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, 
That God alone was to be seen in heaven. 

4634 Byron : Dream. St. 4, 

SLANDER — , see Detraction, Calumny, Rumor, Scandal, 
Society. 

Slanderous reproaches, and foul infamies, 
Leasings, backbitings, and vainglorious crakes, 
Bad counsels, praises, and false flatteries; 
All those against that fort did bend their batteries. 

4635 Spenser : Fairie Queene. Bk. ii. Canto xi. St. 1G 



510 SLANDER. 

I'll devise some honest slanders 
To stain my cousin with : Oue doth not know 
How much an ill word may empoison liking. 

4636 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
The jewel, best enamelled, 

Will lose his beauty; aiid though gold 'bides still 
That others touch, yet often touching will 
Wear gold ; and so no man that hath a name, 
But falsehood and corruption doth it shame. 

4637 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Slander lives upon succession ; 

For ever hous'cl where it gets possession. 

4638 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here ; 

Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear. 

4639 Shaks. : Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. 
We must not stint 

Our necessary actions, in the fear 
To cope malicious censurers ; which ever, 
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow 
That is new trimm'd. 

4640 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2. 
'Tis slander, 

Whose edge is sharper than the sword : whose tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath 
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie 
All corners of the world, — kings, queens, and states, 
Maids, matrons, — nay, the secrets of the grave 
This viperous slander enters. 

4641 Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
What have I done, that thou dar'st wag thy tongue 

In noise so rude against me? 

4642 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Slander, 

Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, 
As level as the cannon to his blank, 
Transports his poison'd shot. 

4643 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, 

Some busy and insinuating rogue, 

Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, 

Have not devis'd this slander. 

4644 Shaks. : Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Slander's mark was ever yet the fair; 

The ornament of beauty is suspect, 
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. 
So thou be good, slander doth but approve 
Thy worth the greater. 

4645 Shaks. : Sonnet lxx 



SLANDER. 5H 

The feeblest vermiu can destroy, 
As sure as stoutest beasts of prey ; 
And ouly with their eyes and breath 
Infect, and poison men to death. 

4646 Butler: Ode on Critics. 

Malicious slander never would have leisure 
To search, with prying eyes, for faults abroad, 
If all. like me, consicler'd their owu hearts, 
And wept the sorrows which they found at home. 

4647 Rowe: Jane Shore. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

But 'tis a busy, talking world, 
That, with licentious breath, blows like the wind, 
As freely on the palace as the cottage. 

4648 Rowe : Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Nor do they trust their tongues alone, 
But speak a language of their own; 
Can read a nod, a shrug, a look, 
Far better than a printed book ; 
Convey a libel in a frown, 
And wink a reputation down ; 
Or, by the tossing of a fan, 
Describe the lady and the man. 

4649 Swift : Journal of Modern Lady. Line 188. 
The whisper'd tale, 

That, like the fabling Nile, no fountain knows ; 
Fair-faced Deceit, whose wily conscious eye 
Ne'er looks direct; the tongue that licks the dust, 
But, when it safely dares, as prompt to sting. 

4650 Thomson : Liberty. Pt. iv. Line 604. 

Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford : 
And reputation bleeds in every word. 

4651 Churchill: Apology. Line 47. 

He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff; 
But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. 

4652 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. Line 199. 

Skilled by a touch to deepen scandal's tints, 

With all the kind mendacity of hints, 

While mingling truth with falsehood, sneers with smiles, 

A thread of candor with a web of wiles ; 

A plain blunt show of briefly-spoken seeming, 

To hide her bloodless heart's soul-harden'd scheming; 

A lip of lies, a face formed to conceal ; 

And, without feeling, mock at all who feel: 

With a vile mask the Gorgon would disown, 

A cheek of parchment, and an eye of stone. 

4653 Byron : Sketch. Line 55, 



512 SLANDER —SLA VER Y. 

Does not the law of Heaven say blood for blood? 
And he who taints kills more than he who sheds it. 

4654 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words, — 
Slander, the foulest whelp of sin. 

4655 Pollok : Course of Time. Bk. viii. Line 715, 
Tis false ! 'tis basely false ! 

What wretch could drop from his envenom'd tongue 
A tale so damn'd? It chokes my breath. 

4656 Joanna Baillie : Be Monfort. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

SLAVERY — see Freedom, Liberty, Slave-Trade. 
Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm 
With favor never clasp'd : but bred a dog. 

4657 Shaks. ;■ Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Mechanic slaves 

With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall 
Uplift us to the view. 

4658 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Base is the slave that pays. 

4659 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Ill-fated race ! the softening arts of peace, 

Whate'er the humanizing muses teach : 
The godlike wisdom of the tempered breast; 
Progressive truth, the patient force of thought ; 
Investigation calm, whose silent powers 
Command the world ; the light that leads to heaven ; 
Kind equal rule, the government of laws, 
And all-protecting freedom, which alone 
Sustains the name and dignity of man : 
These are not theirs. 

4660 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 875. 
Sharp penury afflicts these wretched isles! 

There hope ne'er dawns, and pleasure never smiles. 
The vassal wretch contented drags his chain, 
And hears his famish'd babes lament in vain. 

4661 Falconer : Shipwreck. Canto i. Line 70. 
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin 

Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r 
T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause 
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. 

4662 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 12. 
I would not have a slave to till my ground, 

To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 

And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth 

That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. 

4663 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 29 



SLA VER Y— SLEE1 \ 513 

Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 
Receive our air, that moment they are free : 
Thev touch our country and their shackles fall. 

4664 Cowper • Task. Bk. ii. Line 40. 
The hearts within thy valleys bred, 

The fiery souls that might have led 
Thy sons to deeds sublime, 
Now crawl from cradle to the grave, 
Slaves — nay, the bondsmen of a slave, 
And callous, save to crime. 

4665 Byron : Giaour. Line 147. 
A crowd of shivering slaves of every nation, 

And age, and sex, were in the market raug'd; 

Each bevy with the merchant in his station : 

Poor creatures ! their good looks were sadly chang'd : 

All save the blacks seem'cl jaded with vexation, 

From friends, and home, and freedom far estrang'd. 

The negroes more philosophy displaj'Vi, — 

Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be fiay'd. 

4666 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto v. St. 7 

SLAVE-TRADE — see Slavery. 

What wish can prosper, or what prayer, 
Eor merchants rich in cargoes of despair, 
TTho drive a loathsome traffic, gauge and span 
And buy the muscles and the bones of man? 
The tender ties of father, husband, friend, 
All bonds of nature in that moment end, 
And each endures, while yet he draws his breath, 
A stroke as fatal as the scythe of death. 

4667 Covjper : Charity. Line 137 

SLEEP — see Care, Dreams, Repose, Rest. 
Come, sleep, sleep! the certain knot of peace, 
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe ; 
The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, 
The impartial judge between the high and low. 

4668 Sir Bhilip Sidney: Astrophel and Stella. St. 39. 

As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labor, 
"When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones. 

4669 Shaks. : 31. for 31. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. 

4670 Shaks. : Mid. X. Bream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. 

4671 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



514 SLEEP. 

Infected minds 
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. 

4672 Shahs. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1. 
O sleep, O gentle sleep, 

Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness? 

4673 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Weariness 

Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard. 

4674 Shaks. : Cijmbeline. Act iii. Sc. 6. 
Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast ! — 
"Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest. 

4675 Shaks. :. Born, and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
There are a kind of men so loose of soul, 

That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs. 

4676 Shaks. : Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
It seldom visits sorrow ; when it cloth, 

It is a comforter. 

4677 Shaks. : Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. 

4678 Pope: Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 94. 
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, 

Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace. 

4679 Pope : Iliad. Bk. xvi. Line 831. 
Is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? 

To lie in dead oblivion, losing half 

The fleeting moments of too short a life; 

Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul, 



Who would in such a gloomy state remain 
Longer than nature craves? 

4680 Tliomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 71. 
Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! 

He, like the world, his ready visit pays 

Where fortune smiles — the wretched he forsakes. 

4681 Young: Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 1. 
O soft embalmer of the still midnight ! 

Shutting, with careful fingers and benign, 

Our gloom-pleased eyes, embower'd from the light, 

Enshaded in forgetfulness divine. 

4682 Keats : To Sleep. Sonnet ix. 
magic sleep ! comfortable bird 

That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind 
Till it is hush'd and smooth ! 

4683 Keats : Endymion. Line 456. 



SLEEP. 515 

Sleep hath its own world, 
A boundary between the things misnamed 
Death and existence : Sleep hath its own world, 
And a wide realm of wild reality. 
4084 Byron: Dream. Line 1. 

Strange state of being ! (for 'tis still to be) 
Senseless to feel, and with seal'd eyes to see. 
4C85 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 30. 

Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, 
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 

4686 Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto i. St. 31. 

Thou hast been called, O sleep ! the friend of woe ; 
But 'tis the happy who have called thee so. 

4687 Southey : Curse of Kehama. Canto xv. St. 12. 

What means this heaviness that hangs upon me, 
This lethargy that creeps through all my senses? 
Nature oppress'd, and harass'd out with care, 
Sinks down to rest ; — this once I'll favor her, 
That my awaken'd soul may take her flight, 
Eenew'cl in all her strength, and fresh with life, 
An offering fit for heaven. 

4688 Addison: Cato. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Beauties, when disposed to sleep, 
Should from the eye of keen inspector keep : 
The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, 
May close her mouth, but not conceal her e.yes ; 
Sleep from the fairest face some beauty takes, 
And all the homely features homelier makes. 

4689 Crabbe : Edward Shore. Line 245. 

His dews drop mutely on the hill, 
His cloud above it saileth still. 
Though on its slope men sow and reap. 
More softly than the dew is shed, 
Or cloud is floated overhead, 
" He giveth His beloved sleep." 

4690 Mrs. Browning : Sleep. 

Of all the thoughts of God that are 
Borne inward into souls afar, 
Along the Psalmist's music deep, 
Now tell me if that any is, 
For gift or grace, surpassing this — 
" He giveth His beloved sleep "? 

4691 Mrs. Browning : Sleep. 
Be thy sleep 

Silent as night is, and as deep. 

4692 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. ii. 



51 G SLEEP. 

peaceful Sleep ! until from pain released 

1 breathe again uninterrupted breath ! 

Ah, with what subtile meaning did the Greek 
Call thee the lesser mystery, at the feast 
Whereof the greater mystery is death. 

4693 Longfellow : Sleep. 

Sleep ! to the homeless, thou art home ; 
The friendless find in thee a friend ; 
And well is he, where'er he roam, 
Who meets thee at his journey's end. 

4694 Ebenezer Elliott : Sleep. 

Sleep will bring thee dreams in starry number — 
Let him come to thee and be thy guest. 

4695 Aytoun : Hermotimns. 

O sleep ! O sleep ! 

Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, 

Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand 

Over the lids that crave thy visits biancl, 

Thou kind, thou comforting one. 

For I have seen his face, as I desired, 

And all my story is done. 

O, I am tired! 

4696 Jean Ingelow : S. of the Night Watches. First Watch. 

[St. 10. 

O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep ; 

Thou bearest angels to us in the night, 

Saints out of heaven with palms. Seen by thy light 

Sorrow is some old tale that goeth not deep ; 

Love is a pouting child. 

4697 Jean Ingelow : Sleep. 

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs. 

4698 Robert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 1. 

The unchecked thought 
Wanders at will upon enchanted ground, 
Making no sound 
In all the corridors . . . 

The bell sleeps in the belfry — from its tongue 
A drowsy murmur floats into the air, 
Like thistle-down. Slumber is everywhere. 
The rook's asleep, and, in its dreaming, caws; 
And silence mopes where nightingales have sung; 
The Sirens lie in grottos cool and deep, 
The Naiads in the streams. 

4699 T. B. Aldrich : Invocation to Sleep. 



SL OTH— SMILES. 5 1 7 

SLOTH — see Idleness. 
Heavens ! can you then thus waste, in shameful wise, 
Your lew important clays of trial here? 
Heirs of eternity ! yborn to rise 
Through endless states of being, still more rear 
To bliss approaching and perfection clear : 
Can you renounce a fortune so sublime, 
Such glorious hopes, your backward steps to steer, 
And roll, with vilest brutes, through mud and slime? 
No! no! — Your Heaven-touched hearts disdain the sordid 



crime 



4700 Thomson: Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. St. 61. 
Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes, 
Desirous still, but impotent to rise. 

4701 Shenstone : Moral Pieces. 

SLUGGARD. 

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, 
" You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again." 

4702 Watts : The Sluggard. 
A man whose blood 

Is very snow-broth. 

4703 Shaks.: M. for 31. Act i. Sc. 5. 

SMALL-POX. 

That dire disease, whose ruthless power 
Withers the beauty's transient flower. 

4704 Goldsmith : Double Transformation. Line 75. 

SMATTERERS — see Ignorance. 
Men's talents grow more bold and confident, 
The further they're beyond their just extent, 
As smatt'rers prove more arrogant and pert, 
The less they truly understand an art ; 
And, when they've least capacity to doubt, 
Are wont t' appear most perempt'ry and stout. 

4705 Butler : Satire upon the Imperfection and Abuse of 
[Human Learning. Fragments of an Intended Satire ii. 

[Line 1. 
All smatt'rers are more brisk and pert, 
Than those that understand an art : 
As little sparkles shine more bright 
Than glowing coals, that give them light. 

4706 Butler: Misc. Thoughts. Line 682, 

SMILES — see Laughter. 
What reverence he did throw away on slaves ; 
Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles. 

4707 Shaks. : Richard II Act i. Sc. 4 



518 SMILES— SNAIL. 

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 

4708 Shales. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. 

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 

As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 

4709 Pope : Epis. to Arbuihnot. Line 315. 

With the smile that was childlike and bland. 

4710 Bret Harte : Plain Language from Truthful James. 

Her smile was prodigal of summery shine, — 

Gaily persistent, — like a morn in June 

That laughs away the clouds, and up and down 

Goes making merry with the ripening grain, 

That slowly ripples, — its bent head drooped down, 

With golden secret of the sheathed seed. 

4711 Margaret J. Preston : Unvisited. 

SMITHS. 

The smith, a mighty man is he, 
With large and sinewy hands ; 
And the muscles of his brawny arms 
Are strong as iron bands. 

4712 Longfellow : Village Blacksmith. 

SMOKING — .see Tobacco. 

May never lady press his lips, his proffer'd love returning, 
Who makes a furnace of his mouth, and keeps his chimney 

burning ; 
May each true woman shun his sight, for fear his fumes 

should choke her, 
And none but those who smoke themselves have kisses for 

a smoker. 

4713 Anonymous. 

A club there is of smokers — dare you come 
To that close, clouded, hot, narcotic room? 
When, midnight past, the very candles seem 
Dying for air, and give a ghastly gleam ; 
When curling fumes in lazy wreaths arise, 
And prosing topers rub their winking eyes. 

4714 Crabbe : Clubs and Social Meetings. Line 238 



SNAIL. 

The snail, whose tender horns being hit, 
Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, 
And there, all smother'd up in shade, doth sit, 
Long after fearing to creep forth again. 

4715 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 1033 



SNOW. 519 

SNOW — see Months, Seasons, "Winter. 
A cheer for the snow — the drifting snow; 
Smoother and purer than Beauty's brow; 
The creature of thought scarce likes to tread 
On the dencate carpet so richly spread. 
With feathery wreaths the forest is bound, 
And the hills are with glittering diadems crown'd : 
'Tis the fairest scene we can have below, 
Sing, welcome, then, to the drifting snow! 

4716 Eliza Cook: Snow, 
On turf and curb and bower-roof 

The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; 
It paves with pearl the garden-walk ; 
And lovingly around the tatter' cl stalk 
And shivering stem its magic weaves 
A mantle fair as lily-leaves. 

4717 J. T. Trowbridge: Midwinter. 

The speckled sky is dim with snow, 
The light flakes falter and fall slow ; 
Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale, 
Silently drops a silvery veil ; 
And all the valley is shut in 
By nickering curtains gray and thin. 

4718 J. T. Trowbridge : Midwinter- 

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, 
Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, 
Seems nowhere to alight : the whited air 
Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven. 

4719 Emerson : The Snow-Storm. 

Lo ! while we are gazing, in swifter haste 

Stream clown the snows, till the air is white, 

As, myriads by myriads madly chased, 

They fling themselves from their shadowy height. 

The fair, frail creatures of middle sky, 

What speed they make, with their grave so nigh ; 

Flake after flake. 

To lie in the dark and silent lake ! 

4720 William Cullen Bryant : Snow Shower. 

Stand here by my side and turn, I pray, 
On the lake below thy gentle eyes ; 
The clouds hang over it, heavy and gray, 
And dark and silent the water lies ; 
And out of that frozen mist the snow 
In wavering flakes begins to flow ; 
Flake after flake, 
They sink in the dark and silent lake. 

4721 William Cullen Bryant: Snow Shower 



520 SNOW— SOCIETY. 

See how in a living swarm tliey come 
From the chambers beyond that misty veil; 
Some hover awhile in air, and some 
Bush prone from the sky like sti miner hail. 
All. dropping swiftly or settling slow, 
Meet, and are still in the depths below; 
Flake after flake 
Dissolved in the dark and silent lake. 

4722 WUliam Cullen Bryant : Snow Skewer 
Out of the bosom of the Air, 

Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, 
Over the woodlands brown and bare, 
Over the harvest-fields forsaken, 
Silent, and soft, and slow 
Descends the snow. 

4723 Longfellow : Snoiv-Flakes. 
SNOW-DROP. 

The snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain, 
Comes on, the herald of fair Flora's train. 

4724 Churchill : Gotham. Bk. i. Line 245. 
SNUFF — see Tobacco. 

After he'd administer' d a dose 
Of snuff mimclungus to his nose; 
And powder'd th' inside of his skull 
Instead of th' outward jobbernol, 
He shook it with a scornful look, 
On th' adversary, and thus he spoke : 

4725 Butler : Hv.dibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 1005. 
SOCIETY — see Soiree, Solitude. 

Among unequals what society 
Can sort, what harmony or true delight? 

4726 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. viii. Line 383. 
One speaks the glory of the British queen, 

And one describes a charming Indian screen ; 
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; 
At every word a reputation dies. 
Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat, 
With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that. 

4727 Pope : JR. of the Lock. Canto iii. Line 13. 
Heaven forming each on other to depend, 

A master, or a servant, or a friend, 

Bids each on other for assistance call, 

Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all. 

4728 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 249. 
Society is now one polished horde, 

Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bor'd. 

4729 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiii. St. 9S C 



SOCIETY— SOIREE. 521 

We loathe what none are left to share — 
E'en bliss 'twere woe alone to bear; 
The heart once left thus desolate 
Must fly at last for ease — to hate. 

4730 " Byron : Giaour. Line 941. 
Society itself, which should create 

Kindness, destroys what little we had got : 

To feel for none is the true social art 

Of the world's stoics — men without a heart. 

4731 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 25. 
Unhappy he ! who from the first of joys, 

Society, cut off, is left alone 
Amid this world of death. 

4732 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 937. 
Man in society is like a flower 

Blown in its native bed ; 'tis there alone 

His faculties expanded in full bloom 

Shine out; there only reach theii/ proper use. 

4733 Cowper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 659. 

SODA WATER. 
Eing for your valet — bid him quickly bring 
Some hock and soda water, then you'll know 
A pleasure worthy Xerxes, the great king; 
Eor not the best sherbet, sublim'd with snow, 
Kor the first sparkle of the desert-spring, 
Nor Burgundy in all its sunset glow, 
After long travel, eunui, love, or slaughter, 
Vie with that draught of hock and soda water. 

4734 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 18& 

SOIREE — see Society. 

There stands the noble hostess, nor shall sink 

With the three thousandth curtsy : there the waltz, 

The only dance which teaches girls to think, 

Makes one in love e'en with its very faults. 

Saloon, room, hall, o'erflow beyond their brink, 

And long the latest of arrivals halts, 

'Midst royal dukes and dames condemn'cl to climb, 

And gain an inch of staircase at a time. 

Thrice happy he, who, after a survey 

Of the good company, can win a corner, 

A door that's in, or boudoir out of the way, 

Where he may fix himself, like small "Jack Horner," 

And let the Babel round run as it may, 

And look on as a mourner, or a scorner, 

Or an approver, or a mere spectator, 

Yawning a little as the night grows later. 

4735 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xi. Sts. 68 and 69 



522 SOLACE — SOLDIER. 

SOLACE — see Resignation. 
Consider man in every sphere, 
Then tell me is your lot severe : 
'Tis murmur, discontent, distrust, 
That makes you wretched : God is just; 

We're born a restless, needy crew ; 
Show me a happier man than you. 

4736 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 15. 

SOLDIER — see Battle, Militia, Warrior. 
A soldier ; 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, 
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth. 

4737 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

'Tis much he dares ; 
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, 
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor, 
To act in safety. 

4738 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

You say, you are a better soldier : 

Let it appear so ; make your vaunting true. 

And it shall please me well. 

4739 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Little of this great world can I speak, 
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, 
And therefore little shall I grace my cause, 
In speaking for myself. 

4740 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 

He is a soldier, fit to stand by Caesar 
And give direction. 

4741 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

'Tis the soldiers' life, 
To have their balmy slumbers wak'cl with strife. 

4742 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

When he speaks not like a citizen, 
You find him like a soldier. 

4743 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Such is the country maiden's fright, 
When first a red-coat is in sight ; 
Behind the door she hides her face ; 
Next time at distance eyes the lace. 

4744 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 13 



SOLDIER — SOLICIT A TIOX. 52? 

The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, 
Sat by his lire, and talk'd the night away; 
"Wept o*er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done. 
Shouider'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were wou. 

47-1:5 Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 155, 

: Tis universal soldiership has stabb'cl 
The heart of merit in the meaner class. 

4746 Cawper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 617. 
To swear, to game, to drink, to show at home 

By lewdness, idleness, and Sabbath-breach. 

The great proficiency he made abroad. 

T' astonish and to grieve his gazing friends, 

To break some maiden's and his mother's heart, 

To be a pest where he was useful once, 

Are his sole aim, and all his glory now. 

4747 Cawper : Task. Bk. iv. Line 652. 
A mere soldier, a mere tool, a kind 

Of human sword in a friend's hand. 

4748 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act v. Sc. 1. 
There were foreigners of much renown, 

Of various nations, and all volunteers ; 

Not fighting for their country or its crown, 

But wishing to be one day Brigadiers : 

Also to have the sacking of a town ; 

A pleasant thing to young men at their years. 

'Mongst them were several Englishmen of pith, 

Sixteen call'd Thomson, and nineteen nam'd Smith. 

4749 Byron: Don Juan. Canto vii. St. la 
Soldiers in arms ! Defenders of our soil ! 

Who from destruction save us ; who from spoil 
Protect the sous of peace, who traffic or who toil; 
Would I could duly praise you, that each deed 
Tour foes might honor, and your friends might read. 

4750 Cra.ooe : Professions — Law. Line 22 
Enough of merit has each honored name - 

To shine untarnished on the rolls of fame._ 
And add new lustre to the historic page. 

4751 David Humphreys : Revolutionary Soldiers. 

SOLICITATION. 
He was not taken well: he had not din'd: 
The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then 
We pout upon the morning, are unapt 
To give or to forgive ; but when we have stuff d 
These pipes, and these conveyances of our blood, 
With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls 
Than in our priest-like fasts. 

4752 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 1 



524 SOLITUDE. 

SOLITUDE — see Retirement, Retreat, Society. 
Solitude sometimes is best society, 
And short retirement urges sweet return. 

4753 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 249 

Wisdom's self 
Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 
Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, 
She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, 
That in the various bustle of resort 
Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 

4754 Milton : Comus. Line 375 
The silent heart which grief assails, 

Treads soft and lonesome o'er the vales, 
Sees daisies open, rivers run, 
And seeks, as I have vainly done, 
Amusing thought ; but learns to know 
That solitude's the nurse of woe. 

4755 Pamell : Hymn to Contentment. Line 19. 
Bear me, some god ! oh, quickly bear me hence 

To wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense; 
Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings, 
And the free soul looks down to pity kings. 

4756 Pope: Satire iv. (Donne's). Line 180. 
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, 

Thus unlamented let me die ; 

Steal from the world, and not a stone 

Tell where I lie. 

4757 Pope : Ode on Solitude. St. 5. 
O ! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, 

Lost to the noble sallies of the soul ! 
Who think it solitude to be alone. 

4758 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 6. 
The man how bless'd, who, sick of gaudy scenes, 
(Scenes apt to thrust between us and ourselves,) 

Is led by choice to take his fav'rite walk 
Beneath death's gloomy, silent, cypress shades, 
Unpierc'd by vanity's fantastic ray ; 
To read his monuments, to weigh his dust, 
"Visit his vaults, and dwell among the tombs. 

4759 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 310. 
Eemote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. 

4760 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line L 
O for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 

Some bouudless contiguity of shade, 
Where rumor of oppression and deceit, 
Of unsuccessful or successful war, 
Might never reach me more. 

4761 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 1 



SOLITUDE. 525 

For solitude, however some may rave, 

Seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave — 

A sepulchre iu which the living lie, 

Where all good qualities grow sick and die. 

I praise the Frenchman, 1 his remark was shrewd — 

" How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude ! 

But grant me still a friend in my retreat, 

Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet." 

4762 Cowper : Retirement. Line 735 
The man to solitude accustom'd long, 

Perceives in everything that lives a tongue ; 
Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees 
Have speech for him, and understood with ease, 
After long drought when rains abundant fall, 
He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all. 

4763 Cowper : Needless Alarm. Line 55, 
O solitude ! where are the charms 

That sages have seen in thy face? 
Better dwell in the midst of alarms, 
Thau reign in this horrible place. 

4764 Cowper : Verses supposed to be written by Alex. Selkirk. 

[St. 1. 
And here no more shall human voice 
Be heard to rage — regret — rejoice — 
The last sad note that swell'd the gale 
Was woman's wildest funeral wail. 

4765 Byron : Giaour. Line 320. 
To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, 

To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, 

Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, 

And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; 

To climb the trackless mountain all unseen; 

With the wild flock that never needs a fold : 

Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean; 

This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold 

Converse with nature's charms, and view her stores unroll' d= 

4766 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 25. 
But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, 

To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, 
And roam along, the world's tired denizen, 
With none who bless us, none whom we can bless : 
Minions of splendor shrinking from distress! 
None that, with kindred consciousness endued, 
If we were not, would seem to smile the less, 
Of all that flatter'd, f ollow'd, sought and sued ; 
This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! 

4767 Byron :, Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 26, 

1 La Bruyfere. 



526 SOLITUDE. 

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part 

Of me and of my soul, as I of them? 

Is not the love of these deep in my heart 

With a pure passion? should I not contemn 

All objects, if compared with these? and stem 

A tide of suffering, rather than forego 

Such feelings for the hard and worldly phlegm 

Of those whose eyes are only turn'd below, 

Gazing upon the ground, with thoughts which dare not glow. 

4768 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 75 
If from society we learn to live, 

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die ; 

It hath no flatterers ; vauity can give 

No hollow aid; alone, man with his God must strive. 

4769 Byron ': Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 3a 
Oh ! that the desert were my dwelling-place, 

With one fair spirit for my minister, 
That I might all forget the human race, 
And, hating no one, love but only her ! 

4770 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 177. 
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 

There is society where none intrudes, 

By the deep sea, and music in its roar; 

I love not man the less, but nature more, 

Prom these our interviews, in which I steal 

From all I may be, or have been before. 

To mingle with the universe, and feel 

What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. 

4771 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 178. 
Perhaps there's nothing — I'll not say appals, 

But saddens more, by night as well as day, 
Than an enormous room without a soul 
To break the lifeless splendor of the whole. 

4772 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 56. 
To view alone 

The fairest scenes of land and deep, 
With none to listen and reply 
To thoughts with which my heart beat high 
Were irksome — for whate'er my mood, 
In sooth I love not solitude. 

4773 Byron : Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 3. 
Mark ! where his carnage and his conquests cease, 

He makes a solitude, and calls it peace ! 

4774 Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto ii. St. 2a 
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, 

All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. 

4775 Moore : Come o'er the Sea. 



SOLITUDE. 527 

Why should we faint and fear to live alone, 
Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, 
Nor even the tenclerest heart, and next our own, 
Knows half the reasons why Ave smile and sigh. 

4776 Keble ; Christian Year. 2-Wi Sunday after Trinity. 
Cease, triflers ! would you have me feel remorse? 

Leave me alone — nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon 
Speaks to the murderer with the voice of solitude. 

4777 Maturin : Bertram, v. 3, 
I am not alone, 

For solitude like this is populous, 
And its abundant life of sky and sun, 
High-floating clouds, low mists, and wheeling birds, 
And waves that ripple shoreward all day long, 
Whether the tide is setting in or out, 
Forever rippling shoreward, dark and bright, 
As lights and shadows, aud the shifting winds 
Pursue each other in their endless play, 
Is more than the companionship of man. 

4778 R. H. Stoddard : Hymn to the Sea. 
Solitude delighteth well to feed on mauy thoughts ; 
There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, 
The precious poetry of life shall gild its leaden cares ; 
There, as thou walkest by the sea beneath the gentle stars, 
Many kindling seeds of good will sprout within thy soul ; 
Thou shalt weep in Solitude, — thou shalt pray in Solitude. 
Thou shalt sing for joy of heart, and praise the grace of 

Solitude. 

4779 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Solitude. 
Man dwells apart, though not alone, 

He walks among his peers unread ; 

The best of thoughts which he hath known, 

For lack of listeners are not said. 

4780 Jean Ingelow : Afternoon at a Parsonage. After- 

thought. 
Still this great solitude is quick with life. 
Myriads of insects, gaudy as the flowers 
They flutter over, gentle quadrupeds, 
And birds, that scarce have learned the fear of man, 
Are here, and sliding reptiles of the ground, 
Startlingly beautiful. The graceful deer 
Boundslio the wood at my approach. The bee 



Fills the savannas with his murmurings. 

4781 William Cullen Bryant : The Prairies. 
I am left alone. 

I have no friends and want none. My own thoughts 
Are my sole companions. 

4782 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Ft. iii. 2, 



528 SOXNET — SORROW, 

SONNET — see Love. 
If when I look on thee and hear thy voice, 
In a low whisper'd melody, alone; 
When it is breathing in its softest tone, 
All the deep feelings of my heart rejoice; 
Oh ! what were it to sit beside thee long, 
And gaze on thy bright looks and thy dark eyes, 
And hear thy tender words and thy sweet song, 
As sweet as if it floated from the skies ! 

! what were it to know that thou art mine, 
Indissolubly mine ! that thou wilt be 

For ever as an angel unto me, 
Whether the clay be dark or future shine, 
Giving me, in the bliss of loving thee, 
A portion of the bliss they call divine ! 

4783 Bohn : Ms, 
SOPHISTRY — see Philosophy. 

Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart, 
Trite sentences, hard terms of art, 
To vulgar ears seemed so profound, 
They fancied learning in the sound. 

4784 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 14. 
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, 

And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, 

So sophistry cleaves close to and protects 

Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. 

4785 Cowper : Progress of Error. Line 285. 

SORROW — see Care, Grief, Ilnowledg-e, Memory, Mis- 
chief, Misfortune, Mourning-. 
Give sorrow words : the grief that does not speak 
Whispers the o'erfrau°:ht heart, and bids it break. 

4786 Shales. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Here I and sorrow sit ; 

Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. 

4787 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, — 

Makes the night morning, and the noontide night. 

4788 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, 

Doth burn the heart to cinders. 

4789 Shaks. : Titus And. Act ii. Sc. 5. 
One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, 

That may succeed as his inheritor. 

4790 " Shaks. : Pericles. Act i. Sc. 4. 

1 have that within which passeth show ; 
These, but the trappings and the suits of woe. 

4791 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2 



SORROW. 529 

One fire burns out another's burning ; 
One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish ; 
Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; 
One desperate grief cures with another's languish : 
Take thou some new infection to the eye, 
And the rank poison of the old will die. 

4792 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act i. Sc. 2, 
When sorrows come, they come not single spies. 

But in battalions ! 

4793 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
One woe doth tread upon another's heel, 

So fast they follow. 

4794 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears 

But the free comfort which from thence he hears ; 
But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow 
That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow. 

4795 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Alas ! I have not words to tell my grief: 

To vent my sorrow would be some relief : 
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain ; 
We groan, but cannot speak, in greater pain. 

4796 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 1425. 
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, 

Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown ; 
No traveller ever reach'd that blest abode, 
"Who found not thorns and briars in his road. 

4797 Couper : Epistle to an Afflicted Protestant Lady. 
Xothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. 

4798 Bailey : Festns. Sc. Home. 
Sorrow preys upon 

Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it 
Erom its sad visions of the other world 
Than calling it at moments back to this; 
The busy have no time for tears. 

4799 Byron : Tico Foscari. Act iv. Sc. L 
Yet disappointed joys are woes as deep 

As any man's clay-mixture undergoes. 
Our least of sorrows are such as we weep ; 
'Tis the vile daily drop on drop which wears 
The soul out (like the stone) with petty cares. 

4800 Byron: Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 20. 
And o'er that fair broad brow were wrought 

The intersected lines of thought ; 
Those furrows, which the burning share 
Of sorrow ploughs untimely there : 
Scars of the lacerating mind, 
Which the soul's war doth leave behind. 

4801 Byron : Parisina. St. 2Q 



530 SORROW. 

Ah, the sweet young rose of hope is dead — 
'Twill never bloom again ! 
And the tears I shed for the beautiful dead, 
They fall like the desolate rain. 

4802 William Winter : Murmur of the Rain. 
'Tis better that our griefs should not spread far. 

4803 George Eliot : Armgart. Sc. 5. 

There is no flock, however watched and tended, 
But one dead lamb is there ! 
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, 
But has one vacant chair. 

4804 Longfellow ; Resignation. 

The air is full of farewells to the dying, 
And mournings for the dead. 

4805 Longfellow : Resignation. 

Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions 
Not from the ground arise, 
But oftentimes celestial benedictions 
Assume this dark disguise. 

4806 Longfellow: Resignation. 

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; 
It rains, and the wind is never weary; 
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, 
But at every gust the dead leaves fall, 
And the day is dark and dreary. 

4807 Longfelloiv : The Rainy Day. 

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary ; 

It rains, and the wind is never weary; 

My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past, 

But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, 

And the days are dark and dreary. 

4808 Longfellow : TJie Rainy Day. 
But O ! for the touch of a vanish' cl hand, 

And the sound of a voice that is still ! 

4809 Tennyson : Break, break, break. 
Never morning wore 

To evening, but some heart did break. 

4810 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. vi. St. 2. 
This is truth the poet sings, 

That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier 
things. 

4811 Tennyson : Locksley Hall. St. 38. 
Tell me what is sorrow? It is an endless sea. 

And what is joy? It is a little pearl, 
Bound which the waters whirl. 

4812 R. LI. Stoddard: Sorrow and Joy. 



SORROW— SOUL. 531 

Tell me what is sorrow? It is a gloomy cage. 
And what is joy? It is a little bird, 
Whose song therein is heard. 

4813 R. H. Stoddard : Sorrow and Joy. 

Tell me what is sorrow? It is a garden-bed. 
And what is joy? It is a little rose, 
Which in that garden grows. , 

4814 B. H. Stoddard: Sorrow and Joy, 

Everywhere — 



Sorrow, the heart must bear, 

Sits in the home of each, conspicuous there. 

Many a circumstance, at least, 

Touches the very breast. 

For those 

Whom any sent away, — he knows : 

And in the live man's stead, 

Armor and ashes reach 

The house of each. 

4815 Bobert Browning : Agamemnon, 

Great sorrows cannot speak. 

4816 John Donne : Elegy xi. Death. 

Affliction is a mother, 
Whose painful throes yield many sons, 
Each fairer than the other. 

4817 Henry Vaughan: Thou That Knovfst. 

To each his sufferings : all are men 
Condemn'd alike to groau ; 
The tender for another's pain, 
The unfeeling for his own. 

4818 Gray: Ode. On Eton College. St. 10. 



SOUL — see Eternity, Futurity, Immortality. 
Heuce, thou suborn'd informer ! a true soul, 
When most impeach'd, stands least in thy control. 

4819 Shades. : Sonnet exxv. 

But whither went his soul, let such relate 
Who search the secrets of the future state : 
Divines can say but what themselves believe ; 
Strong proofs they have, but not demonstrative : 
Eor, were all plaiu, then all sides must agree, 
And faith itself be lost in certainty. 
To live uprightly then is sure the best, 
To save ourselves, aud not to damn the rest. 

4820 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. ill. Line 2120. 



532 SOUL. 

The Soul, secure in her existence, smiles 

At the drawn dagger, and defies its point : 

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself 

Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years: 

But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, 

Unhurt amidst the war of elements, 

The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds ! 

4821 * Addison : Cato. Act v. Sc. 1. 

It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate, 

To shape the outward to its own estate. 

If right itself, then, all around is well; 

If wrong, it makes of all without a hell. 

So multiplies the Soul its joys or pain, 

Gives out itself, itself takes back again. 

Transformed by thee, the world hath but one face. 

4822 B. H. Dana : Thoughts on the Soul. 
Is not the mighty mind, that son of heaven ! 

By tyrant life dethroned, imprison'd, pain'd? 
By death enlarg'd, ennobled, deified? 
Death but entombs the body; life the soul. 

4823 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 455. 

Who tells me he denies his soul's immortal, 
Whate'er his boast, has told me he's a knave ; 
His duty, 'tis to love himself alone, 
Nor care though mankind perish, if he smiles, 
Who thinks ere long the man shall wholly die, 
Is dead already ; nought but brute survives. 

4824 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 1168. 

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends. 

4825 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 2, 

The light of love, the purity of grace, 
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole — 
And, oh ! that eye was in itself a soul ! 

4826 Byron : Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 6. 
He had kept 

The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept. 

4827 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 57. 
Wander at will, 

Day after day, — 
Wander away, 
Wandering still — 
Soul that canst soar ! 
Body may slumber : 
Body shall cumber 
Soul-flight no more. 

4828 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz. Prologue. 



SOUND — SPECULATION. 533 

SOUND. 

Sweet is every sound, 
Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; 
Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, 
The moan of cloves in immemorial elms, 
And murmuring of innumerable bees. 

4829 Tennyson : The Princess. Canto vii. 

SPAIN. 

Not all the blood at Talavera shed, 

Not all the marvels of Barossa's fight, 

Not Albuera lavish of the dead, 

Have won for Spain her well-asserted right. 

When shall her olive-branch be free from blight? 

When shall she breathe her from the blushing toil ? 

How many a doubtful day shall sink in night, 

Ere the Frank robber turn him from his spoil. 

And Freedom's stranger-tree grow native of the soil ! 

4830 ^ Byron: Gh. Harold. Canto i. St. 90. 

Fair land ! of chivalry the old domain. 
Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain ! 
Though not for thee with classic shores to vie 
In charms that fix th' enthusiast's pensive eye ; 
Yet hast thou scenes of beauty, richly fraught 
With all that wakes the glow of lofty thought ; 
Fountains, and vales, and rocks, whose ancient name 
High deeds have raised to mingle with their fame. 

4831 Mrs. Hemans : Abencerrage. Canto ii. Line, 1. 

SPECTACLES. 

Between nose and eyes a strange contest arose, 
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; 
The point in dispute was. as all the world knows, 
To which the said spectacles ought to belong. 

4832 Cowper : Eeport of an Adjudged Ca§( 



SPECULATION — see Chance, Gambling-. 

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes 
Which thou dost glare with ! 

4833 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

All's to be fear'd where all is to be gain'd. 

4834 Byron : Werner. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



534: SPECULATION— SPEECH. 

The history of humankind to trace 

Since Eve, the first of dupes, our doom unriddled, 

A certain portion of the human race 

Has certainly a taste for being diddled. 

Witness the famous Mississippi dreams ! 

A rage that time seems ouly to redouble — 

The Banks, Joint-Stocks, and all the flimsy schemes. 

For rolling in Pactolian streams 

That cost our modern rogues so little trouble 

No matter what, to pasture cows on stubble 

To twist sea-sand into a solid rope, 

To make French bricks and fancy bread of rubble, 

Or light with gas the whole celestial cope — 

Only propose to blow a bubble, 

And Lord ! what hundreds will subscribe for soap ! 

4835 Hood : A Black Job. 



SPEECH — see Language, Talking, Words. 

I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 

4836 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 

We must speak by the card, or equivocation will undo us. 

4837 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Eucle am I in my speech 
And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace. 

4838 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Speech is but broken light upon the depth 
Of the unspoken ; even your loved words 
Float in the larger meaning of your voice 
As something dimmer. 

4839 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i. 

Speech is the golden harvest that followeth the flowering 
of thought. 

4840 X upper : Proverbial Phil. Of Speaking. 

Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man 

4841 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Speaking 

Speech? is that all? And shall an actor found 
An universal fame on partial ground? 
Parrots themselves speak properly by rote, 
And, in six months, nry clog shall howl by note. 
I laugh at those who, when the stage they tread, 
Neglect the heart, to compliment the head ; 
With strict propriety their cares confined 
To weigh out words, while passion halts behind: 
To syllable-dissectors they appeal. 

4842 Churchill : Bosciad. Line 951- 



SPENDTHRIFT— SPIRES. 535 

SPENDTHRIFT — see Extravagance. 
After he scores, lie never pays the score : 

He ne'er pays after debts, take it before. 

4843 Shaks. : AIVs Well. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Squandering wealth was his peculiar art : 

Nothing went unrewarded but desert. 

Beggar'd by fools, whom still he fouud too late; 

He had his jest, and they had his estate. 

4844 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 559. 
Let friends of prodigals say what they will, 
Spendthrifts at home, abroad are spendthrifts still. 

4845 Churchill : Candidate. Line 519. 
Spendthrift alike of money and of wit, 

Always at speed, and never drawing bit. 

4846 Cov-per : Table Talk. Line 685. 

SPENSER— see Poets. 
Nor shall my verse that elder bard forget, 
The gentle Spenser, fancy's pleasing son ; 
Who, like a copious river, poured his song 
O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground : 
Nor thee, his ancient master, laughing sage, 
Chaucer, whose native manners-painting verse, 
Well-moralized, shines through the Gothic cloud 
Of time and language o'er thy genius thrown. 

4847 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1574. 
SPHERE. 

The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either 
man or woman. 

4848 Elizabeth Oakes Smith : Ms. 
SPIDER. 

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! 
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. 

4849 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 217. 
SPIRES. 

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise? 

4850 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 261. 
How the tall temples, as to meet their gods, 

Ascend the skies ! 

4851 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 781. 
Ye swelling hills and spacious plains ! 

Besprent from shore to shore with steeple towers, 
And spires whose " silent finger points to heaven." ! 

4852 Wordsworth : Excursion. Bk. vi. Line 17 

1 Compare Coleridge : The Friend. No. 14. 



536 SPIRIT-RAPPING — SPLEEN. 

SPIRIT-RAPPING — see Ghosts. 
Hark ! on the wainscot now it knocks I 
'• If thou'rt a ghost," cried Orthodox 
With that affected solemn air 
Which hypocrites delight to wear, 
And all those forms of consequence 
Which fools adopt instead of sense ; 
" If thou'rt a ghost, who from the tomb 
Stalk'st sadly silent through this gloom, 
In breach of nature's stated laws, 
For good, or bad, or for no cause, 
Give now nine knocks; like priests of old, 
Nine we a sacred number hold." 
4853 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. ii. Line 307 

SPIRITS. 
I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
Why. so can I ; or so can anj^ man : 
But will they come, when you do call for them? 

4851 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1 

Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone? 
And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye? 

4855 Shaks. : Henry VIII Act iv. Sc. 2, 
There's a spirit above, and a spirit below, 

A spirit of joy, and a spirit of woe, 
The spirit above is the spirit divine, 
The spirit below is the spirit of wine. 

4856 Ms. Written about 1825, on the vaults below Port- 

[men Chapel, Baker St. 

SPLEEN. 

Hail, wayward Qr.aen ! 
AVho rule the sex to fifty from fifteen ; 
Parent of vapors, and of female wit, 
Who give the hysteric, or poetic fit, 
On various tempers act by various ways, 
Make some take physic, others scribble plays : 
Who cause the proud their visits to delay, 
And send the godly in a pet to pray. 

4857 Pope : R. of the Lock. Canto iv. Line 57. 

The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; 

The low'riug eye, the petulance, the frown, 

And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, 

And mar the face of beauty, when no cause 

For sucji immeasurable woe appears ; 

These Flora banishes, and gives the fair 

Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own. 

4858 Cowper : Task. Bk. i. Line 455. 



SP C R TING — SPRING. 537 

SPORTING — see Child, Gambling. 

See from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, 
And mounts exulting on triumphant wings ; 
Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, 
Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. 

4859 Pope : Windsor Forest. Line 111. 
Ah, nut-brown partridges ! ah, brilliant pheasants ! 

And ah, ye poachers ! — 'tis no sport for peasants. 

4860 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiii. St. 75. 

Thick around 
Thunders the sport of those, who with the gun 
And dog, impatient bounding at the shot, 
Worse than the season desolate the fields. 

4861 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 788. 

He learn'd the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, 
And how to scale a fortress or — a nunnery. 

4862 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto i. St. 38. 



SPRING — see April, May, Months, Seasons. 
When daisies pied, and violets blue, 
And lady-smocks all silver white, 
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, 
Do paint the meadows with delight. 

4863 Shaks. : Love's L, Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. Song. 
In that soft season, when descending show'rs 

Call forth the greens, and wake the rising fiow'rs ; 
When opening'buds salute the welcome day, 
And earth relenting feels the genial ray. 

4864 Pope: Temple of Fame. Line 1. 
What change has made the pastures sweet 

And reached the daisies at my feet, 
And cloud that wears a golden hem ? 
This lovely world, the hills, the sward — 
They all look fresh, as if our Lord 
But yesterday had finished them. 

4865 Jean Ingelow : Reflections. 
" Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come ! " — 

Oh ! Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason, 
How could'st thou thus poor human nature hum? 
There's no such season. 

4866 Hood: Spring. 
Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come; 

And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, 
While music wakes around, veiled in a shower 
Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 

4867 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 1, 



538 SPRING. 

See where surly Winter passes off, 

Far to the north, and calls his ruffian blasts : 

His blasts obey, and quit the howling hill, 

The shattered forest and the ravished vale ; 

While softer gales succeed, at whose kind touch, 

Dissolving snows in livid torrents lost, 

The mountains lift their green heads to the sky. 

4868 Thomson: /Seasons. Spring. Line 11 

At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, 

And the bright Bull receives him. Then no more 

Th' expansive atmosphere is cramp'cl with cold; 

But, full of life and vivifying soul, 

Lifts the light clouds sublime, and spreads them thin, 

Fleecy and white, o'er all surrounding heaven. 

4869 Tliomson : Seasons. Sirring. Line 26. 

Still let my song a nobler note assume, 

And sing th' infusive force of Spring on man; 

When heaven and earth, as if contending, vie 

To raise his being, and serene his soul. 

Can he forbear to join the general smile 

Of Nature? Can fierce passions vex his breast? 

4870 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 858. 
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, 

Kock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. 

4871 Cowper : Tirocinium. Line 43. 

Spring is strong and virtuous, 
Broad-sowing, cheerful, plenteous, 
Quickening underneath the mould 
Grains beyond the price of gold. 
So deep and large her bounties are, 
That one broad, long midsummer day 
Shall to the planet overpay 
The ravage of a year of war. 

4872 Emerson : May-Day. Line 248. 
Mighty nature bounds as from her birth. 

The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth ; 
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, 
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. 

4873 Byron : Lara. Canto ii. St. 1. 
O fresh-lit dawn ! immortal life ! 

O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true ! 

4874 E. C. Stedman : Betrothed Anew. St. 6. 
Showers and sunshine bring, 

Slowly, the deepening verdure o'er the earth; 
To put their foliage out, the woods are slack, 
And one by one the singing-birds come back. 

4875 William Cullen Bryant : Spring in Town. 



SPRING. 539 

The breath of Spring-time at this twilight hour 
Comes through the gathering glooms, 
And bears the stolen sweets of many a flower 
Into my silent rooms. 

4876 William Cullen Bryant : May Evening. 
Alas ! bright Spring ! not long 

Shall I enjoy thy pleasant influence: 

For thou shalt die the summer heat among, 

Sublimed to vapor in his fire intense, 

And, gone forever hence, 

Exist no more ; no more to earth belong, 

Except in song. 

4877 Albert Pike : To Spring. 
It was in the prime 

Of the sweet spring-time, 
In the linnet's throat 
Trembled the love-note, 
And the love-stirred air 
Thrilled the blossoms there. 
Little shadows danced, 
Each a tiny elf, 
Happy in large light 
And the thinnest self. 

4878 George Eliot : Spanish Gijpsy. Bk. i. Song. 
The trumpet winds have sounded a retreat, 

Blowing o'er land and sea a sullen strain ; 

Usurping March, defeated, flies again, 

And lays his trophies at the Winter's feet. 

And lo ! where April, coming in his turn, 

In changeful motleys, half of light and shade, 

Leads his belated charge, a delicate maid, 

A nymph with dripping urn. 

4879 R. H. Stoddard: Spring. 
Up comes the primrose, w T onclering ; 

The snowdrop droopeth by; 
The holy spirit of the spring 
Is working silently. 

4880 George Macdonald : Songs of the Spring Days. 
Sweet is the air with the budding haws, and the valley 

stretching for miles below 
Is white with blossoming cherry-trees, as if just covered 
with lightest snow. 

4881 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv. 
Winter is past ; the heart of Nature warms 

Beneath the wrecks of unresisted storms ; 

Doubtful at first, suspected more than seen, 

The southern slopes are fringed with tender green. 

4882 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Spring 



540 SPRING. 

The butterfly springs on its new-born wings. 

The dormouse starts from his wintry sleeping ; 

The flowers of earth find a second birth, 

To light and life from the darkness leaping : 

The roses and tulips will soon resume 

Their youth's first perfume and primitive bloom. 

4883 Horace Smith : The Flower 

The bud is in the bough, and the leaf is in the bud, 
And Earth's beginning now in her veins to feel the blood, 
Which, warmed by summer suns in the alembic of the vine, 
From her founts will overrun in a ruddy gush of wine. 
The perfume and the bloom that shall decorate the flower, 
Are quickening in the gloom of their subterranean bower : 
And the juices meant to feed trees, vegetables, fruits, 
Unerringly proceed to their pre-appointed roots. 

4884 Horace Smith : First of March. 

Welcome, all hail to thee! welcome, young Spring! 
Thy sun-ray is bright on the butterfly's wing. 
Beauty shines forth in the blossom-robed trees ; 
Perfume floats by on the soft southern breeze. 

The hedges, luxuriant with flowers and balm, 
Are purple with violets, and shaded with palm; 
The zephyr-kiss'cl grass is beginning to wave, 
Fresh verdure is decking the garden and grave. 

4885 Eliza Cook: Spring. 

Spring, Spring, beautiful Spring, 

Laden with glory and light you come ; 

With the leaf, the bloom, and the butterfly's wing, 

Making our earth a fairy home. 

The primroses glitter — the violets peep ; 

And zephyr is feasting on flower and bloom. 

Arouse, ye sluggards, what soul shall sleep 

While the lark's in the sky, and the bee's on the palm? 

The sweetest song, and the loudest string, 

Should pour a welcome to beautiful Spring. 

4886 Eliza Cook: Spring- 
Uprose the wild old winter-king, 

And shook his beard of snow; 

" I hear the first young harebell ring, 

'Tis time for me to go ! 

Northward o'er the icy rocks, 

Northward o'er the sea, 

My daughter comes with sunny locks : 

This land's too warm for me ! " 

4887 Charles Godfrey Leland : Spring. 



SPRING — S TARS. 54 1 

Fled now the sullen murmurs of the North, 
The splendid raiment of the Spring peeps forth. 

4888 BloomfieM : Spring. The Farmer's Boy. 

STAGE — see Actors. 
The stage I chose — a subject fair and free — 
"lis yours — 'tis mine — 'tis public property. 
All common exhibitions open lie, 
For praise or censure, to the common eye. 
Hence are a thousand hackney writers fed; 
Hence Monthly Critics earn their daily bread. 
This is a general tax which all must pay, 
From those who scribble, down to those who play. 

4889 Churchill: Apology. Line 186. 

STARS — see Moon, Night, Sky. 

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 

4890 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV Act v. Sc. 4. 
Look, how the floor of heaven 

Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. 
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; 
Such harmony is in immortal souls : 
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. 

4891 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. t. 
The stars of the night 

"Will lend thee their light, 

Like tapers clear without number ! 

4892 Herrick : Aph. Night Piece. To Julia. 
Lo ! from the dread immensity of space 

Returning, with accelerated course, 
The rushing comet to the sun descends : 
And as he sinks below the shading earth, 
With awful train projected o'er the heavens, 
The guilty nations tremble. 

4893 Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 1703. 
But who can count the stars of heaven, 

Who sing their influence on this lower world? 

4894 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 528. 
One sun by day, by night ten thousand shine, 

And light us deep into the Deity ; 

How boundless in magnificence and might ! 

O, what a confluence of ethereal fires, 

From urns unnumber'd, down the steep of heaven, 

Streams to a point, and centres in my sight ! 

4895 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 748. 



542 STARS. 

The sky 
Spreads like an ocean hung on high, 
Bespangled with those isles of light 
So wildly, spiritually bright. 
Whoever gaz'd upon them shining, 
And turn'd to earth without repining, 
Nor wish'd for wings to flee away, 
And mix with their eternal ray? 

4896 Byron: Siege of Corinth. St. 1L 

Oh, thou beautiful 
And unimaginable ether ! and 
Ye multiplying masses of increased 
And still increasing lights ! what are ye? what 
Is this blue wilderness of interminable 
Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen 
The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? 
Is your course measur'cl for ye? Or do ye 
Sweep on in your unbounded revelry 
Through an aerial universe of endless 
Expansion, — at which my soul aches to think, — 
Intoxicated with eternity? 

4897 Byron : Cain. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Ye stars ! which are the poetry of Heaven, 
If in your bright leaves we would read the fate 
Of men and empires, — 'tis to be forgiven, 
That in our aspirations to be great, 
Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, 
And claim a kindred with you ; for ye are 
A beauty and a mystery, and create 
In us such love and reverence from afar, 
That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a 
star. 

4898 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 88. 

The stars hang bright above her dwelling 
Silent, as though they watch'cl the sleeping earth. 

4899 Coleridge : Dejection. St. 8. 

The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand, 
And, haply, there the spirits of the blest 
Dwell, clothed in radiance, their immortal vest. 

4900 Wordsworth : Misc. Sonnets. Pt. ii. Sonnet 25. 

Stars 
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields 
Of heaven. 

4901 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Wood and Water. 

The stars are images of love. 

4902 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea. 



STARS. 543 

The night is calm and cloudless, 

And still as still can be, 

And the stars come forth to listen 

To the music of the sea. 

They gather, and gather, and gather, 

Until they crowd the sky, 

And listen in breathless silence, 

To the solemn litany. 

4903 Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. v. 
There is no light in earth or heaven 

But the cold light of stars ; 

And the first watch of night is given 

To the red planet Mars. 

4904 Longfellow : The Light of Stars. St. 2. 
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, 
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the 

angels. 

4905 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. I. iii. Line 83. 
The very stars 

Tremble above, as though the Voice Divine 
Beverberated through the dread expanse. 

4906 Anna Katharine Green. Sunrise from the Mountains. 
The sad and solemn night 

Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires ; 

The glorious host of light 

Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires ; 

All through her silent watches, gliding slow, 

Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go. 



And thou dost see them rise, 

Star of the Pole ! and thou dost see them set. 

Alone, in thy cold skies. 

4907 William Cullen Bryant: Hymn to the North Star. 
Now only here and there a little star 

Looks forth alone. 

4908 William Cullen Bryant : The Constellations. 
Oh, Constellations of the early night 

That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, 
And made the darkness glorious ! I have seen 
Your rays grow dim upon the horizon's edge, 
And sink behind the mountains. I have seen 
The great Orion, with his jewelled belt, 
That large-limbed warrior of the skies, go down 
Into the gloom. Beside him sank a crowd 
Of shining ones. 

4909 William Cullen Bryant : The Constellations. 
The eternal jewels of the short-lived night. 

4910 Mary Mapes Dodge : The Stars. 



544 STARS — STATESMEN. 

They wait all day unseen by us, unfelt; 

Patient they bide behind the day's full glare; 

And we who watched the dawn when they were there, 

Thought we had seen them in the daylight melt, 

While the slow sun upon the earth-line knelt. 

4911 Mary Mapes Dodge : The Stars. 

In the stillness of the night, 
Quick rays of intermingling light 
Sparkle from star to star. 

4912 James Montgomery : To Cynthia. 

Stars are of mighty use : the night 

Is dark and long ; 

The road is foul ; and where one goes right, 

Six may go wrong. 

One twinkling ray, 

Shot o'er some cloud, 

May clear much way, 

And guide a crowd. 

4913 Henry Vaughan: Joy of My Life. 
Host of spies, 

The stars, shine in their watches. 

4914 Henry Vaughan: Midnight. 

The milky way chalkt out with suns. 

4915 Henry Vaughan: Sun-Days. 

STATESMEN — see Dignity, Parliament, Patriotism, Poli- 
tics. 

Forbear, you things 
That stand upon the pinnacles of state, 
To boast your slippery height ! when you do fall, 
You dash yourselves in pieces, ne'er to rise : 
And he that lends you pity, is not wise. 

4916 Ben Jonson : Sejanus. Act v. Sc. 10. 

An honest statesman to a prince, 
Is like a cedar plauted by a spring ; 
The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree 
Rewards it with his shadow. 

4917 Webster: Duchess of Malfi. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

You have not, as good patriots should do, studied 

The public good, but your particular ends : 

Factious among yourselves ; preferring such 

To offices and honors, as ne'er read 

The elements of saving policy ; 

But deeply skilFcl in all the principles 

That usher to destruction. 

4918 Massing er : Bondman. Act i. Sc. 3. 



STA TESMEN— STILLNESS. 545 

For as two cheats, that play one game, 
Are both defeated of their aim ; 
So those who play a game of state, 
And only cavil in debate, 
Altho' there's nothing lost nor won, 
The public bus'ness is undone, 
Which still the longer 'tis in doing, 
Becomes the surer way to ruin. 

4919 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Lins 155 

Statesman, yet friend to truth ! of soul sincere, 

In action faithful, and in honor clear ; 

Who broke no promise, served no private end, 

Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 

Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 

And prais'd, unenvied, by the muse he lov'd. 

4920 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. v. Line 67 

Who's in or out, who moves this grand machine, 
Nor stirs my curiosity nor spleen ; 
Secrets of state no more I wish to know 
Than secret movements of a puppet-show ; 
Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, 
Unseen the hand which guides the master wire. 

4921 Churchill : Night. Line 257 



STATION. 

What is station high? 
'Tis a proud mendicant; it boasts, and begs; 
It begs an alms of homage from the throng, 
And oft the throng denies its charity. 

4922 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 287. 



STATURE. 

In small proportion we just beauties see, 
And in short measures life may perfect be. 
4923 Ben Jonson : Good Life, Long Life. 



STILLNESS —see Silence. 

A lonely stillness, so like death, 
So touches, terrifies all things, 
That even rooks that fly o'erhead 
Are hush'd, and seem to hold their breath, 
To fly with muffled wings, 
And heavy as if made of lead. 
4924 Joaquin Miller ; Californian. Pt. iil 



546 STOICS — STORM. 

m 

STOICS— see Pride. 
As monumental bronze, unchang'd his look ; 
A soul that pity touch' cl, but never shook; 
Train'd from his tree-rock'd cradle to his bier 
The tierce extreme of good and ill to brook ; 
Impassive — fearing but the shame of fear — 
A stoic of the woods — a man without a tear. 

4925 Campbell : Gertrude of Wyoming. Pt. i. St. 23. 

STORM — see Silence, Tempest, Wind. 
Plash! 

Lightning, I swear ! — there's a tempest brewing ! 
Crash ! 

Thunder, too — swift-footed lightning pursuing ! 
The leaves are troubled, the winds drop dead, 
The air grows ruminant overhead — 
Splash ! 

That great round drop fell pat on my nose. 
Plash ! crash ! splash 1 — 
I must run for it, I suppose. 
O what a flashing, and crashing, and splashing, 
The earth is rocking, the skies are riven — 
Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, 
Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven. 

4926 Robert Buchanan : Fine Weather on the Digentia. 

[Horatius Cogitandibus. St. 16. 
We often see, against some storm, 
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, 
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below 
As hush as death. 

4927 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
A red morn that ever yet betoken'd 

Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, 
Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds, 
Gust and foul flaws to herdsmen and to herds. 

4928 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 453. 
A boding silence reigns, 

Dread through the dun expanse ; save the dull sound 
That from the mountain, previous to the storm, 
Eolls o'er the muttering earth, disturbs the flood, 
And shakes the forest-leaf without a breath. 
Prone, to the lowest vale, the aerial tribes 
Descend ; the tempest-loving raven scarce 
Dares wing the dubious dusk. In rueful gaze, 
The cattle stand, and on the scowling heavens 
Cast a deploring eye ; by man forsook, 
Who to the crowded cottage hies him fast, 
Or seeks the shelter of the downward cave. 

4929 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1118. 



STORM— STORY. 547 

Defeating oft the labors of the year, 
The sultry South collects a potent blast. 
At first the groves are scarcely seen to stir 
Their trembling tops, and a still murmur runs 
Along the soft-inclining fields of corn ; 
But as the aerial tempest fuller swells, 
And in one mighty stream, invisible, 
Immense, the whole excited atmosphere 
Impetuous rushes o'er the sounding world. 

4930 Thomson: Seasons. Autumn. Line 311. 
A mighty wind, like a leviathan, 

Ploughed through the brine, and from these solitudes 
Sent Silence frightened. 

4931 T. B. Aldrich : Pythagoras. 
The poplars showed 

The white of their leaves, the amber grain 
Shrunk in the wind, — and the lightning now 
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain ! 

4932 T. B. Aldrich : Before the Rain. 
The clouds are scudding across the moon, 

A misty light is on the sea; 

The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, 

And the foam is flying free. 

4933 Bayard Taylor: Storm Song. 
Unsparing as the scourge of war, 

Blasts follow blasts, and groves dismantled roar. 

4934 Bloomfield : Winter. The Farmer's Boy. 
The winds with hymns of praise are loud, 

Or low with sobs of pain, — 
The thunder-organ of the cloud, 
The dropping tears of rain. 

4935 Whittier : The Tent on the Beach. Abraham Davenport. 
A thousand miles from land are we, 

Tossing about on the roaring sea — 

From billow to bounding billow cast, 

Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast: 

The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds; 

The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds; 

The mighty cables, and iron chains, 

The hull, which all earthly strength disdains — 

They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone 

Their natural hard proud strength disown. 

4936 Barry Cornwall : Stormy Petrel 

STORY. 

Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, 
Long, long ago, long, long ago. 

4937 Thomas Haynes Bayly : Long, Long Ago- 



548 STOR Y — STRENGTH. 

A story, in which native humor reigns, 
Is often useful, always entertains ; 
A graver fact enlisted ou your side 
May furnish illustration, well applied ; 
But sedentary weavers of loug tales 
Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails. 
'Tis the most asiniue employ on earth, 
To hear them tell of parentage and birth, 
And echo conversations dull and dry, 
Embellished with, — He said, — and, So said 1. 

4938 Cowper : Conversation. Line 203 
I cannot tell how the truth may be ; 

I say the tale as 'twas said to me. 

4939 Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto ii. St. 22. 

STRANGENESS. 
'Twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 
'Twas pitiful : 'twas wondrous pitiful. 

4940 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 

STRAWBERRY. 
The strawberry grows underneath the nettle ; 
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best 
Neighbor'd by fruit of baser quality. 

4941 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1. 

STREAMS — see Brooks. 
The current that with gentle murmur glides, 
Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage; 
But, when his fair course is not hindered, 
He makes sweet music with the enamell'd stones, 
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge 
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. 

4942 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
Streams, as if created for his use, 

Pursue the track of his directing wand, 
Sinuous or straight, now rapid and now slow, 
Now murmuring soft, now roaring in cascades. 

4943 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 774. 

STRENGTH. 

O, it is excellent 
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. 

4944 Shaks. : M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
But Hercules himself must yield to oclcls ; 

And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. 

4945 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 1. 



STRENG TH— STUD Y. :, 49 

What is strength, without a double share 
Of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burdensome; 
Proudly secure, yet liable to fall 
By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, 
But to subserve where wisdom bears command. 

4946 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 53. 
To be strong 

Is to be happy ! 

4947 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. ii. 

STRIKES. 
A mechanic his, labor will often discard 
If the rate of his pay he dislikes ; 
But a clock, — and its case is uncommonly hard, — 
Will continue to work though it strikes. 

4948 Hood : Epigram on the Superiority of Machinery. 

STRIVING. 
When workmen strive to do better than well 
They do confound their skill in covetousness. 

4949 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell ; 

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 

4950 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. 

STUDY. 

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 
That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks ; 
Small have continual plodders ever wou, 
Save base authority from others' books. 

4951 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Study evermore is overshot ; 

While it doth study to have what it would, 
It doth forget to do the thiug it should : 
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 
'Tis won, as towns with fire ; so won, so lost. 

4952 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Universal plodding prisons up 

The nimble spirits in the arteries ; 

As motion, and long-during action tires 

The sinewy vigor of the traveller. 

4953 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you : 

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'eiij — 
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 

4954 Shaks. : Tarn, of the &. Act i. Sc. 1. 



550 STUDY— SUCCESS. 

So man that thinks to force and strain 
Beyond its natural sphere, his brain, 
In vain torments it on the rack, 
And, for improving, sets it back. 

4955 Butler : Sat. on Weakness & Misery of Man. Line 215 
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, 

Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought : 
Constant attention wears the active mind, 
Blots out our powers, and leaves a blank behind. 

4956 Churchill : Ep. to Hogarth. Line 645. 
If not to some peculiar end design'd 

Study's the specious trifling of the mind, 

Or is at best a secondary aim, 

A chase for sport alone, and not for game. 

4957 Young : Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 67. 

STUPIDITY — see Folly, Simplicity. 
For blocks are better cleft with wedges, 
Than tools of sharp or subtle edges, 
And dullest nonsense has been found 
By some to be the most profound. 

4958 Butler: Upon An Hypocritical Nonconformist. Pin- 

[daric Ode. 4. Line 82. 
STYLE — see Authors, Language, Poetry. 
The lives of trees lie only in the barks, 
And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks. 

4959 Butler : Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning. Line 211. 
In all you write be neither low nor vile : 

The meanest theme may have a proper style. 

4960 Dryden: Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 79. 

SUBMISSION — see Obedience. 

Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, 
With bated breath, and whispering humbleness, 
Say this? 

4961 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. 
You shall be as a father to my youth : 

My voice shall sound as you do prompt mine ear: 
And I will stoop and humble my intents 
To your well-practis'd, wise directions. 

4962 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV Act v. Sc. 2. 

SUCCESS — see Applause, Fate, Industry, Perseverance. 
Didst thou never hear 
That things ill got had ever bad success? 

4963 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
'Tis a consummation 

Devoutly to be wish'd. 

4964 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



5 UCCESS — S UICIDE. 551 

Life lives only in success. 

4965 Bayard Taylor : Annan's Wooing. St. 5. 
One thing is forever good; 

That one thing is Success. — 

4966 Emerson : Fate. 

"Tis not in mortals to command success ; 

But we'll do more, Sempronius — we'll deserve it. 

4967 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 2. 
What though success will not attend on all, 

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. 

4968 Smollett: Advice. Line 207. 

SUFFERANCE. 

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. 

4969 Shahs. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. 
The poor beetle that we tread upon, 

In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. 

4970 Shaks. : M. for M. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

SUICIDE — see Death, Despair, Immortality. 
Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life 
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. 

4971 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
I do find it cowardly and vile, 

For fear of what might fall, so to prevent 
The time of life. 

4972 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act v. Sc. 1. 
To be, or not to be, that is the question : 

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer 

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 

And by opposing end them? To die — to sleep ; — 

No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end 

The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks 

That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation 

Devoutly to be wish'd. 

4973 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 

The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay, 
The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 
When he himself might his quietus make 
With a bare bodkin? 

4974 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



552 S UICIDE — S UITORS. 

— He 
That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it •, 
And at the best shows but a bastard valor. 

4975 Massing er : Maid of Honor. Act iv. Sc. 3, 
When all the blandishments of life are gone, 

The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. 

4976 G. Sewell : The Suicide. Front Martial. Bk. xi. Epis. 56. 

If there's an hereafter, 
And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd 
And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man, 
Then must it be an awful thing to die ; 
More horrid yet to die by one's own hand. 

4977 Blair: Grave. Line 398. 

Our time is fix'd ; and all our days are number'd ! 
How long, how short, we know not : this we know, 
Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, 
Nor dare to stir till heaven shall give permission. 

4978 Blair : Grave. Line 417. 
To run away 

From this world's ills, that, at the very worst, 
Will soon blow o'er, thinking to mend ourselves 
By boldly venturing on a world unknown, 
And plunging headlong in the dark ! — 'tis mad ! 
No frenzy half so desperate as this. 

4979 , Blair: Grave. Line 425. 

How! leap into the pit our life to save? 
To save our life leap all into the grave. 

4980 Cowper : Needless Alarm. Line 107. 
My spirit shrunk not to sustain 

The searching throes of ceaseless pain ; 
Nor sought the self-accorded grave 
Of ancient fool and modern knave. 

4981 Byron : Giaour. Line 1021. 
He, with delirious laugh, the dagger hurl'd, 

And burst the ties that bound him to the world ! 

4982 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 163. 

SUITORS. 

Mistress, look on me, 
Behold the window of my heart, mine eye, 
What humble suit attends thy answer there. 

4983 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, 
And loved to plead, lament, and sue; 
Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, 
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. 

4984 Scott: Marmion. Canto v. St. 9. 



SUMMER — SUN. 553 

SUMMER — see Indian Summer, Months, Seasons. 
From bright'niug fields of ether fair disclos'd 
Child of the sun, refulgent Summer comes, 
In pride of youth, and felt through nature's depth ; 
He comes attended by the sultry hours, 
And ever-fanning breezes, on his way : 
While, from his ardent look, the turning Spring 
Averts her blushful face ; and earth and skies, 
All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves. 

4985 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1. 
Through the open door 

A drowsy smell of flowers — gray heliotrope, 
And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette — 
Comes faintly in, and silent chorus lends 
To the pervading symphony of peace. 

4986 WJiittier : Among the Hills. Prelude. 
White clouds, whose shadows haunt the deep, 

Light mists, whose soft embraces keep 
The sunshine on the hills asleep ! 

4987 Whittier : Summer by the Lakeside. 
The weary August days are long ; 

The locusts sing a plaintive song, 
The cattle miss their master's call 
When they see the sunset shadows fall. 

4988 E. C. Stedman : Alice of Monmouth. Pt. ix. 
The air of summer was sweeter than wine. 

4989 Longfellow : T. of a Wayside Inn. Queen Sigrid, the 

[Haughty. Line 8. 
It is a sultry day ; the sun has drunk 
The dew that lay upon the morning grass ; 
There is no rustling in the lofty elm 
That canopies my dwelling, and its shade 
Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint 
And interrupted murmur of the bee, 
Settling on the sick flowers, and then again 
Instantly on the wing. 

4990 William Cullen Bryant : Summer Wind. 

SUN — see Dawn, Evening-, Morning-, Sunrise, Sunset. 
The glorious sun, 
Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist; 
Turning, with splendor of his precious eye, 
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. 

4991 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
What light through yonder window breaks ! 

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — 
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon. 

4992 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii Sc i 



554 SUN—SUNFLO WER 

Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye, 
The day to cheer, and uight's dank clew to dry. 

4993 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 3- 
As sunshine broken in the rill, 

Though turned astray, is sunshine still. 

4994 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Fire- Worshippers. 
See the sun himself ! on wings 

Of glory up the east he springs. 
Angel of light ! who from the time 
Those heavens began their march sublime, 
Hath first of all the starry choir 
Trod in his Maker's steps of fire ! 

4995 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Fire- Worshippers. 
Thou material God ! 

And representative of the Unknown, 

Who chose thee for his shadow ! Thou chief star ! 

Centre of many stars ! — which mak'st our earth 

Endurable, and temperest the hues 

And hearts of all who walk within thy rays ! 

Sire of the seasons ! Monarch of the climes, 

And those who dwell in them ! for near or far, 

Our inborn spirits have a tint of thee, 

Even as our outward aspects, — thou dost rise, 

And shine and set in glory ! 

4996 Byron : Manfred. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Busy old fool, unruly sun, 

Why dost thou thus, 

Through windows and through curtains call on us? 

4997 John Donne : The Sun-Rising- 

SUNFLOWER. 

The lofty follower of the sun, 
Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves, 
Drooping all night; and when he warm returns, 
Points her enamor'd bosom to his ray. 

4998 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 216. 
Light enchanted sunflower, thou 

Who gazest ever true and tender 
On the sun's revolving splendor ! 



Kestless sunflowers, cease to move. 

4999 Shelley: Tr. of " Magico Prodigioso" of Calderon. 

[Sc. 3. 
The heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close, 
As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets 
The same look which she turn'd when he rose. 

5000 Moore: Believe Me, If all Those Endearing Youny 

[ Charms. 



SUNFLOWER. 555 

Sunflowers by the sides of brooks, 
Turn'd to the sun. 

5001 Moore : Summer Fete. 
Ah, sunflower, weary of time, 

Who countest the steps of the sun, 
Seeking after that sweet golden clime 
Where the traveller's journey is done. 

5002 William Blake : The Sunfloiver. 
Open afresh your round of starry folds, 

Ye ardent marigolds ! 

Dry up the moisture of your golden lids, 

For great Apollo bids. 

5003 Keats : I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill. 
Eagle of flowers ! I see thee stand, 

And on the sun's noon-glory gaze ; 
With eye like his, thy lids expand, 
And fringe their disk with golden rays ; 
Though flxed on earth, in darkness rooted there, 
Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, 
Thy prospect heaven. 

5004 James Montgomery : TJie Sunflower. 
When with a serious musing I behold 

The grateful and obsequious marigold, 
How duly, every morning, she displays- 
Her open breast when Titan spreads his rays ; 
How she observes him in his daily walks, 
Still bending towards him her tender stalks. 

5005 George Wither: Emblems. 
Miles and miles of gold and green 

Where the sunflowers blow 
In a solid glow. 

5006 Robert Browning : Lovers' Quarrel. St. 6. 
A flower, I know, 

He cannot have perceived, that changes ever 
At his approach ; and in the lost endeavor 
To live his life, has parted, one by one, 
With all a flower's true graces, for the grace 
Of being but a foolish mimic sun, 
With ray-like florets round a disk-like face. 

Men call the flower the sunflower, sportively. 

5007 Robert Browning : Rudel to the Lady of Tripoli. 
Unloved, the sun-flower, shining fair, 

Ray round with flames her disk of seed. 

5008 Tennyson : Ln Memoriam. Pt. c. St. 2> 
Space for the sunflower, bright 

With yellow glow, 
To court the sky. 

5009 Caroline Gilman : To the Ursulines 



556 SUNFLO WER — SUNRISE. 

With bending head submissive I adore, 
With constant gaze my father's face explore ; 
I turn my face following where'er he turns. 
Still flx'd my pious gaze as round he burn-. 

5010 Cowley : Poemata Latina Plantarum. 

Nor shall the marigold unmentioned die, 
Which Acis once found out in Sicily ; 
She Phoebus loves, and from him draws her hue, 
And ever keeps his golden beams in view. 

501 1 Gardiner : Tr. from Rapin. 

I will not have the mad Clytie 
Whose head is turn'd by the sun. 

5012 Hood: Flowers. 

With zealous steps he climbs the upland lawn, 
And bows in homage to the rising dawn ; 
Imbibes with eagle eye the golden ray, 
And watches, as it moves, the orb of day. 

5013 Erasmus Darwin : Love of the Plants. 



SUNRISE— see Dawn, Morning", Ocean, Sun. 

Yonder comes the powerful king of day 

Kejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, 

The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow, 

Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach 

Betoken glad. Lo ! now, apparent all, 

Aslant the clew-bright earth and color'd air 

He looks in boundless majesty abroad, 

And sheds the shining clay, that burnish'd plays 

On rocks, and hills, and towers, and wandering streams. 

High gleaming from afar. 

5014 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 81. 

Prime cheerer, light ! 
Of all material beings first and best ! 
Efflux divine ! Nature's resplendent robe ! 
Without whose vesting beauty all were wrapt 
In unessential gloom ; and thou, O sun ! 
Soul of surrounding worlds ! in whom best seen 
Shines out thy Maker ! 

5015 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 90. 

When from the opening chambers of the east 
The morning springs in thousand liveries drest, 
The early larks their morning tribute pay, 
And, in shrill notes, salute the blooming day. 

5016 Thomson : The Morning in the Country. 



S UNRISE — S UNSE T. 557 

I say the sun is a most glorious sight, 
I've seen him rise full oft, indeed of late 
I have sat up on purpose all the uight, 
Which hastens, as physicians say, one's fate; 
And so all ye, who would be in the right 
In health and purse, begin your day to date 
From daybreak, and when coffin'd at fourscore, 
Engrave upon the plate, you rose at four. 

5017 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 140. 
Yonder fly his scattered golden arrows, 

And smite the hills with day. 

5018 Bayard Taylor : Poet's Journal. Third Even. 

"lis morn. Behold the kingly Day now leaps 
The eastern wall of earth with sword in hand, 
Clad in a flowing robe of mellow light, 
Like to a king that has regain'd his throne, 
He warms his drooping subjects into joy, 
That rise rejoiced to do him fealty, 
And rules with pomp the universal world. 

5019 Joaquin Miller : Ina. Sc. 2. 
The east is blossoming ! Yea, a rose, 

Vast as the heavens, soft as a kiss, 
Sweet as the presence of woman is, 
Rises and reaches, and widens and grows 
Large and luminous up from the sea, 
And out of the sea, as a blossoming tree. 

5020 Joaquin Miller : Sunrise in Venice. St. 3. 
It is right precious to behold 

The first long surf of climbing light 
Flood all the thirsty east with gold. 

5021 James Russell Lowell : Above and Below. 
The morning light, which rains its quivering beams 
Wide o'er the plains, the summits, and the streams, 

In one broad blaze expands its golden glow 
On all that answers to its glance below. 

5022 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Poetry. A Metrical Essay. 

SUNSET — see Clouds, Evening, Tempest, Twilight. 
The dying light, 
Ere it departed, swathed each mountain height 
In robes of purple ; and adown the west, 
Where sea and sky seemed mingling — breast to breast — 
Drew the dense barks of ponderous clouds, and spread 
A mantle o'er them of a royal red, 
Belted with purple — lined with amber — tinged 
With fiery gold — and blushing-purple fringed. 

5023 Chas. Mackay : Voices from the Mountains and from 

[the Crowd. Prologue. 



558 SUNSET. 

The weary sun hath made a golden set, 
And, by the bright track of his fiery car, 
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. 

5024 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act r. Sc. 3. 

"Tis sunset: to the firmament serene, 
The Atlantic wave reflects a gorgeous scene ; 
Broad in the cloudless west a belt of gold 
Girds the blue hemisphere ; above, unroll'd, 
The keen clear air grows palpable to sight, 
Imbodied in a flush of crimson light. 

5025 James Montgomery : Greenland. Canto iii. Line 344. 

Dipp'cl in the hues of sunset, wreath'd in zones, 

The clouds are resting on their mountain-thrones ; 

One peak alone exalts its glacier crest, 

A golden paradise, above the rest; 

Thither the day with lingering steps retires, 

And in its own blue element expires. 

5026 James Montgomery : Greenland. Canto v. Line 95. 

The sun was down, 
And all the west was paved with sullen fire. 
I cried " Behold ! the barren beach of hell 
At ebb of tide." 

5027 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama. Sc. 4. 

Caesar-like the sun 
Gathered his robes around him as he fell. 

5028 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama. Sc. 8. 

A day unsealed with sunset. 

5029 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama. Sc. 4. 

The mists above the morning rills 
Rise white as wings of prayer ; 
The altar-curtains of the hills 
Are sunset's purple air. 

5030 Whittier : Tent on the Beach. Abraham Davenport 

Touched by a light that hath no name, 

A glory never sung, 

Aloft on sky and mountain wall 

Are God's great pictures hung. 

How changed the summits vast and old ! 

No longer granite-browed, 

They melt in rosy mist ; the rock 

Is softer than the cloud ; 

The valley holds its breath ; no leaf 

Of all its elms is twirled : 

The silence of eternity 

Seems falling on the world. 

5031 Whittier : Sunset on the Bear camp. 



SUNSET. 559 

Yon miracle-play of night and day 
Makes dumb its witnesses. 
What unseen altar crowns the hills 
That reach up stair on stair? 

5032 Whittier : Sunset on the Bearcamp. 
In the vale beneath the hill 

The evening's growing purple strengthens. 

5033 Margaret J. Preston : Afternoon. St. 7. 
The bright-hair'd sun 

Sits in yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts, 
With brecle ethereal wove, 
O'erhaug his wavy bed. 

5034 Collins : Ode to Evening. 
Loveliest are thy setting smiles, and fair, 

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues 

That live among the clouds, and flush the air, 

Lingering and deepening at the hour of dews. 

Then softest gales are breathed, and softest heard 

The plaining voice of streams, and pensive note of bird. 

5035 William Cullen Bryant : Walk at Sunset. 
O the wondrous golden sunset of the blest October clay. 

5036 Julia G. R. Dorr : Margery Grey. St. 24. 
And topples round the dreary west 

A looming bastion fringed with fire. 

5037 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. xv. St. 5. 
Like a dying king, the parting clay, 

In calm, majestic prescience of decay, 
Lighted his pyre that he a king might die. 

5038 H. H. Boyesen : I Sat and Gazed into the Burning 
A wonderful glory of color, [Sky. 
A splendor of shifting light — 

Orange and scarlet and purple — 
Flamed in the sky to-night. 

5039 Margaret E. Sangster : A Winter Sunset, 
The clay is clone ; and slowly from the scene 

The stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, 
And puts them back into his golden quiver ! 

5040 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. i. 
The descending sun 

Seems to caress the city that he loves, 
And crowns it with the aureole of a saint. 

5041 Longfellow: Michael Angelo. Pt. i. 2. 
Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death. 

5042 Schiller : The Expectation. 
The sun is going clown, 

And I must see the glory from the hill. 

5043 George Eliot : Agatha. 



560 SUNSHINE — SUPERSTITION. 

SUNSHINE. 

See the gold sunshine patching, 
And streaming and streaking across 
The gray-green oaks ; and catching, 
By its soft brown beard, the moss. 

5044 Bailey : Festus. Sc. The Surface. 
On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall. 

5045 Schiller : Pompeii and Herculaneum. 
The sunshine on my path 

Was to me as a friend. 

5046 William Cullen Bryant : A Winter Piece. 

SUPERFLUITY. 

If ye know . 
Why ask ye, and superfluous begin 
Your message, like to end as much in vain? 

5047 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 831. 

SUPERSTITION — see Gipsies. 
" Alas ! yo\i know the cause too well : 
The salt is spilt, to me it fell. 
Then, to contribute to my loss, 
My knife and fork were laid across ; 
On Friday too ! the day I dread ! 
Would I were safe at home in bed ! 
Last night (I vow to heaven 'tis true) 
Bounce from the fire a coffin flew. 
Next post some fatal news shall tell, 
God send my Cornish friends be well ! " 

5048 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 37. 
Force first made conquest, and that conquest law, 

Till Superstition taught the tyrant awe, 

Then shar'd the tyranny, then lent it aid, 

And gods of conqu'rors, slaves of subjects made: 

She, 'midst the lightning's blaze and thunder's sound, 

When rock'd the mountains, and when groan'd the ground, 

She taught the weak to bend, the proud to pray 

To Power unseen, and mightier far than they : 

She, from the rending earth and bursting skies, 

Saw gods descend, and fiends infernal rise ; 

Here fix'd the dreadful, there the blest abodes ; 

Fear made her devils, and weak hope her gods. 

5049 Pope : Essay on 2Ia?i. Epis. iii. Line 245. 
England, a fortune-telling host, 

As num'rous as the stars could boast ; 
Matrons, who toss the cup, and see 
The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. 

5050 Churchill: Ghost. Bk. i. Line 115. 



SUPERSTITION— SUSPICION. 561 

'Tis a history 
Handed from ages down; a nurse's tale — 
Which children, open-ey'd and mouth'd, devour; 
And thus as garrulous iguorauce relates, 
We learn it and believe. 

5051 Southey : Thalaba. Bk. iv. 9 

SUPPLENESS — see Deceit, Hypocrisy. 

How hard for real worth to gain its price : 

A man shall make his fortune in a trice, 

If blest with pliant, though but sleucler sense, 

Feign'd modesty, and real impudence. 

A supple knee, smooth tongue, an easy grace, 

A curse within, a smile upon his face. 

5052 Young : Love of Fame. Satire iii. Line 251. 

SURFEIT —see Excess, Gluttony, Satiety. 

As surfeit is the father of much fast, 
So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
Turns to restraint. 

5053 Shaks. : M. for M. Act i. Sc. 3. 
They surfeited with honey, and began 

To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little 
More than a little is by much too much. 

5054 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
People may have too much of a good thing — 

Full as an egg of wisdom thus I siug. 

5055 Peter Pindar : Subjects for Painters. The Gent, and 

[his Wife. 

SURPRISE — see Amazement, Astonishment. 

The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 

5056 Pope : Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 171. 

SUSPENSE — see Crime. 

For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain 

A cool suspense, from pleasure and from pain. 

5057 Pope : Eloisa to A. Line 249. 

SUSPICION — see Conscience, Jealousy, Love. 

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath ! 
He that but fears the thing he would not know, 
Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, 
That what he feared is chanced. 

5058 Shaks. ; 2 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 1 



5G2 SWALLO W— S WIFTNESS. 

SWALLOW. 

When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, 
Warned of approaching Winter, gathered, play 
The swallow-people; and tossed wide around 
O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, 
The feathered eddy floats ; rejoicing once, 
Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. 

5059 Thomson : Seasojis. Autumn. Line 836, 

The swan, with arched neck 
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows 
Her state with oary feet. 

5060 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vii. Line 438. 
The stately-sailing swan 

Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale ; 
And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet 
Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier-isle, 
Protective of his young. 

5061 Thomson : Seasons. Spring. Line 769. 
SWEARING — see Boasting-, Oaths. 

When perjury, that heaven-defying vice, 
Sells oaths by tale, and at the lowest price, 
Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, 
To turn a penny in the way of trade. 

5062 Cowper: Table Talk. Line 419. 
And hast thou sworn, oh every slight pretence, 

Till perjuries are common as bad pence, 
While thousands, careless of the damning sin, 
Kiss the book's outside who ne'er look within? 

5063 Cowper : Expostulation. Line 388. 
Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain ; 

It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. 

5064 Herbert : Temple. Church Porch. St. 10. 
SWEETNESS. 

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 

5065 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Your words, they rob the Hybla bees, 

And leave them honeyless. 

5066 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Sweets to the sweet : farewell ! 

5067 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. 
How sweet must be the lips that guard that tongue ! 

5068 Farquhar : Constant Couple. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
SWIFTNESS. 

I go, I go; look how I go ; 

Swifter than arrow from. the Tartar's bow. 

5069 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



SWIMMING — SYMPATHY. 563 

SWIMMING — see Shipwreck. 

Cheer'd by the milder beam, the sprightly youth 

Speeds to the well-known pool, whose crystal depth 

A sandy bottom shows. Awhile he stands 

Gazing the inverted landscape, half afraid 

To meditate the blue profound below ; 

Then plunges headlong down the circling flood. 

His ebon tresses and his rosy cheek 

Instant emerge ; and through the obedient wave, 

At each short breathing by his lip repell'd, 

"With arms and legs according well, he makes, 

As humor leads, an easy-winding path; 

While, from his polish'd sides, a dewy light 

Effuses on the pleas'd spectators round. 

5070 Thomson : Seasons. Summer, Line 1246. 
How many a time have I 

Cloven with arm still lustier, breast more daring, 
The wave all roughen'd ; with a swimmer's stroke 
Flinging the billows back from my drench 'd hair, 
And laughing from my lip the audacious brine, 
Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er 
The waves as they arose, and prouder still 
The loftier they uplifted me. 

5071 Byron : Two Foscari. Act i. Sc. 1. 

SYMPATHY — see Kindness, Loss, Love, Music, Nature, 
Sensibility. 
How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping. 

5072 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act i. Sc. 1. 
What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say. 

5073 Shaks. : Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5. 
Thou hast given me, in this beauteous face, 

A world of earthly blessings to my soul, 
If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 

5074 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI Act i. Sc. 1. 
Like will to like ; each creature loves his kind, 

Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. 

5075 Herrick : Aph. Like Loves his Like. 
There's nought in this bad world like sympathy : 

'Tis so becoming to the soul and face — 
Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, 
And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace. 

5076 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 47. 
No one is so accursed by fate, 

No one so utterly desolate, 

But some heart, though unknown, 

Responds unto his own. 

5077 Longfellow: Endijmion. 



564 SYMPATHY. 

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, 

Where there is not one heart, and one mouth, and one hand? 

5078 Longfellow : Annie of Tharaw. Tr.from Simon Dach. 

[St. 12. 
Something- the heart must have to cherish, 
Must love, and joy, and sorrow learn ; 
Something with passion clasp or perish, 
And in itself to ashes burn. 

5079 Longfellow: Motto. Hyperion. Bk. ii. 

Our hearts, my love, were form'd to be 
The genuine twins of sympathy, 
They live with one sensation : 
In joy or grief, but most in love, 
Like chords in unison they move, 
And thrill with like vibration. 

5080 Moore : Sympathy. To Julia. 

Whose hearts in every thought are one, 
Whose voices utter the same wills, 
Answering, as echo doth, some tone 
Of fairy music 'mong the hills, 
So like itself we seek in vain 
Which is the echo, which the strain. 

5081 Moore : Loves of the Angels. Third AngeVs Story. 

How bless'cl the heart that has a friend 

A sympathizing ear to lend 

To troubles too great to smother? 

For as ale and porter, when flat, are restor'd 

Till a sparkling, bubbling head they afford, 

So sorrow is cheer'd by being pour'd 

From one vessel into another. 

5082 Hood : Miss Kilmansegg. Her Misery. 

Whom the heart of man shuts out, 
Sometimes the heart of God takes in, 
And fences them all round about 
With silence 'mid the world's loud din. 

5083 James Bussell Lowell : The Forlorn. St. 16. 

He who steps on stones is glad to feel 

The smallest spray of moss beneath his feet. 

5084 Anna Katharine Green : Paul Isham. 

We are much bound to them that clo succeed ; 
But, in a more pathetic sense, are bound 
To such as fail. They all our loss expound ; 
They comfort us for work that will not speed, 
And life — itself a failure. 

5085 Jean Ingelow : Failure. 



S YNODS — TALKING. 565 

SYNODS — see Creed, Religion. 
Synods are mystical bear-gardens, 
Where elders, deputies, church- wardens, 
And other members of the court, 
Manage the Babylonish sport. 

5086 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1095. 
Synods are whelps o' th' Inquisition, 

A muugrel breed of like pernicion. 

5087 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto iii. Line 1149. 



T. 

TAILOR. 

O monstrous arrogance ! thou liest, thou thread, 

Thou thimble, 

Thou yard, three-quarters, half -yard, quarter, nail, 

Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter-cricket, thou : — 

Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of thread ! 

Aw^ay thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant ; 

Or I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard, 

As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st ! 

5088 Shaks. : Tarn, of the 8. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

TALE— see Astonishment, Fear, Life, Story. 
This act is an ancient tale new told ; 
And, in the last repeating, troublesome, 
Being urged at a time unseasonable. 

5089 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. 

5090 Shaks. : Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
Who gather round, and wonder at the tale 

Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, 
That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand 
O'er some new-open'd grave, and, strange to tell, 
Evanishes at crowing of the cock. 

5091 Blair : Grave. Line 67. 

TALENTS. 

Talents angel-bright, 
If wanting w r orth, are shining instruments 
In false ambition's hand, to finish faults 
Illustrious, and give infamy renown. 

5092 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 27a 

TALKING — see Boasting-, Bores, Eloquence, Speech, 
Tongue, Words. 

You cram these words into mine ears, against 
The stomach of my sense. 

5093 Shaks. : Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1. 



566 TALKING. 

The fool hath planted in his memory 
A n army of good words ; and I do know 
A many fools that stand in better place, 
Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word 
Defy the matter. 
5094 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 5 



Our ears are cudgell'd ; not a word of his, 
But buffets better than a fist of France : 
Zounds! I was never so bethump'd with words, 
Since I first called my brother's father, dad. 

5095 Shaks. : King John. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Why, what a wasp-tongued and impatient fool 
Art thou, to break into this woman's mood ; 
Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own ! 

5096 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 3. 

We will not stand to prate ; 
Talkers are no good doers ; be assured 
We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 

5097 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act i. Sc. 3. 

I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban : 
What is your study? 

5098 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

But still his tongue ran on, the less 
Of weight it bore, with greater ease; 
And with its everlasting clack, 
Set all men's ears upon the rack. 

5099 Butler : Huclibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 443. 

They always talk who never think. 

5100 Brior: Upon this Bassage in the Scaligeriana. 

My tongue within my lips I rein, 
For who talks much must talk in vain ; 
We from the wordy torrent fly ; 
Who listens to the chatt'ring pye? 

5101 G-aij : Fables, Introduction 

Words learn' cl by rote, a parrot may rehearse, 
But talking is not always to converse ; 
Not more distinct from harmony divine, 
The constant creaking of a country sign. 

5102 Cowper : Conversation. Line 7 



TASSO — TASTE. 567 

TASSO. 
Tasso is their glory and their shame. 
Hark to his strain ! and then survey his cell! 
And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, 
And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell : 
The miserable despot could not quell 
The insulted mind he sought to quench, and blend 
With the surrounding maniacs, in the hell 
Where he had plunged it. Giory without end 
Scatter'd the clouds away — and on that name atteud. 

5103 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 36 

Peace to Torquato's injured shade ! 'twas his 

In life and death to be the mark where Wrong 

Aim'd with her poison'cl arrows, — but to miss. 

Oh, victor unsurpass'd in modern song ! 

Each year brings forth its millions ; but how long 

The tide of generations shall roll on, 

And not the whole combin'd and countless throng 

Compose a mind like thine? Though all in one 

Condens'd their scatter'd rays, they would not form a sun. 

5104 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 39. 

TASTE. 
Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find 
Two of a face as soon as of a mind. 

5105 Pope : Satire vi. Line 268. 

For what has Virro painted, built, and planted? 
Only to show how many tastes he wanted. 
What brought Sir Visto's ill-got wealth to waste? 
Some demon whispered, " Visto! have a taste." 

5106 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iv. Line 13. 

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, 
Be it in music, painting, or in song : 
But this, as well as other faculties, 
Improves with age and ripens by degrees. 

5107 Armstrong: Taste. Line 26. 

'Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, 
Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. 
Better be born with taste to little rent 
Than the dull monarch of a continent ; 
Without this bounty which the gods bestow, 
Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No. 

5108 Armstrong : Benevolence. Line 48 



568 TA TILERS — TEA. 

TATTLERS. 
Who ever keeps an open ear 
For tattlers, will be sure to hear 
The trumpet of contention ; 
Aspersion is the babbler's trade, 
To listen is to lend him aid, 
And rush into disseusion. 

5109 Cowper: Friendship. St. 17. 

TAVERNS — see Inns. 

Souls of poets dead and gone, 
What Elysium have ye known, 
Happy held or mossy cavern, 
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? 

5110 Keats: Mermaid Tavern. 
Would you have each blessing full, 

Hither fly and live with Bull, 
Feast for body, feast for mind, 
Best of welcome, taste refin'd. 
Bull does nothing here by halves, 
All other landlords are but calves. 

5111 Lord Erskine : N. Q. Sept. 8th, 186& 

TAXATION. 

These exactions 
Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are 
Most pestilent to the hearing ; and, to bear 'em 
The back is sacrifice to the load. 

5112 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2. 
By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, 

And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring 
From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, 
By any indirection. 

5113 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails ; 

And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails. 

5114 Congreve: Epis. to Sir Bichard Temple. Of Pleasing, 
What is't to us if taxes rise or fall? [Line 17. 
Thanks to our fortune, we pay none at all. 

5115 Churchill: Night. Line 263. 

TEA. 
The gentle fair on nervous tea relies, 
Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes; 
An inoffensive scandal fluttering round, 
Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound. 

5116 Crabbe: Inebriety. Line SL 



TEA CHING — TEARS. 569 

TEACHING — see Education. 
I have labored, 
And with no little study, that my teaching 
And the strong course of my authority 
Might go one way. 

5117 Shahs. : Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Teachers men honor, learners they allure; 

But learners teaching, of contempt are sure. 

Scorn is their certain meed, and smart their only cure. 

5118 Crabbe : Learned Boy. Last lines. 

TEARS — see Affection, Grief, Love, Petitions, Sympathy, 
Weeping-. 

The big round tears 
?ours'd one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase. 

5119 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
What's the matter, 

That this distempered messenger of wet, 
The many-colored Iris, rounds thine eye? 

5120 Shaks. : All's Well. Act i. Sc. 3. 
7 am not prone to weeping, as our sex 

Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, 
Perchance shall dry your pities : but I have 
That honorable grief lodg'd here, which burns 
Worse than tears drown. 

5121 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act ii. Sc. L 
Trust not those cunning waters of his eyes, 

For villany is not without such rheum ; 
And he, long traded in it, makes it seem 
Like rivers of remorse and hmocency. 

5122 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Let me wipe off this honorable dew, 

That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks ; 

My heart hath melted at a lad} T 's tears, 

Being an ordinary inundation ; 

But this effusion of such manly drops, 

This shower, blown up by tempest of the soul, 

Startles mine eyes, and makes me more amaz'd 

Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven 

Figur'd quite o'er with burning meteors. 

5123 Shaks. : King John. Ac4 v. Sc. 2. 
The pretty and sweet manner of it f orc'd 

Those waters from me which I would have stopp'd ; 
But I had not so much of man in me, 
But all my mother came into mine eyes, 
And gave me up to tears. 

5124 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 6. 



570 TEARS 

To weep, is to make less the depth of grief: 
Tears, then, for babes ; blows and revenge for me. 

5125 Shahs. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. ftn. 1. 
What I should say 

My tears gainsay : for every word I speak, 
Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes. 

5126 Shales. : 3 Henry VI Act v. Sn 4. 

Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears •■ 
Sham'd their aspects with store of childish drops. 

5127 Shaks. : Richard 111. Act i. Sc. 2. 

I did not think to shed a tear 

In all my miseries ; but thou hast fore'd me, 

Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. 

5128 Shaks.: Henry VIII Act iii. &.. 2. 
He has strangled 

His language in his tears. 

5129 Shaks. : Henry VIII Act v. Sc. L 
Touch me with noble anger ! 

O, let not women's weapons, water-drops, 
Stain my man's cheek ! 

5130 Shaks. : King Lear. Act ii. !*_. 4 
You have seen 

Sunshiue and rain at once : her smiles and tears 
Were like a better day : those happy smiles 
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to know 
What guests were in her eyes ; which parted thence, 
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. 

5131 Shaks.: King Lear. Act iv. S_n 3. 
Then fresh tears 

Stood on her cheeks, as cloth the honey-dew 
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'cl. 

5132 Shaks. : Titus And. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Venus smiles not in a house of tears. 

5133 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

' ' O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies 
In the small orb of one particular tear ! 
But with the inuudation of the eyes, 
What rocky heart to water will not wear? " 

5134 Shaks. : Lover's Complaint. Line 288, 

Our present tears here, not our present laughter, 
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. 

5135 Herrick : Noble Numbers. Tears. 

She by the river sat, and sitting there, 
She wept, and made it deeper by a tear. 

513G Herrick: Aph. Another Upon Her Weeping. 



TEARS. 571 

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, 
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 

5137 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 619. 
Thy tears are no reproach : 

Tears oft look graceful on the manly cheek ; 
The cruel cannot weep. Even friendship's eye 
Gives thee the drop it would refuse itself. 

5138 Thomson: Sophonisba. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Hide not thy tears ; weep boldly . . . and be proud 

To give the flowing virtue manly way : 
'Tis nature's mark, to know an honest heart by. 
Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt 
In soft adoption of another's sorrow. 

5139 Aaron Hill : Alzira. Act ii. 
The tear down childhood's cheek that flows, 

Is like the clewdrop on the rose ; 

When next the summer breeze comes by, 

And waves the bush, the flower is dry. 

5140 Scott: Rokeby. Cantoiv.St.il. 
A child will weep a bramble's smart, 

A maid to see her sparrow part, 
A stripling for a woman's heart : 
But woe awaits a country, when 
She sees the tears of bearded men. 

5141 Scott : Marmion. Canto v. St. 16. 
So bright the tear in Beauty's eye, 

Love half regrets to kiss it dry ; 
So sw r eet the blush of Bashfulness, 
Even Pity scarce can wish it less ! 

5142 Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 8. 
What gem hath dropp'd and sparkles o'er his chain? 

The tear most sacred, shed for others' pain, 

That starts at once — bright — pure — from pity's mine, 

Already polished by the hand divine ! 

5143 Byron: Corsair. Canto ii. St. 15. 
Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — 

In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! 
That weapon of her weakness she can wield, 
To save, subdue — at once her spear and shield; 
Avoid it — virtue ebbs and wisdom errs, 
Too fondly gazing on that grief of hers ! 
What lost a world, and bade a hero fly? 
The timid tear in Cleopatra's eye. 

5144 Byron : Corsair. Canto ii. St. 15. 
None are so desolate but something clear, 

Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd 
A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. 

5145 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 24. 



572 TEARS. 

She was a good deal shock'd ; not shock'd at tears, 
For women shed and use them at their liking; 
But there is something- when man's eye appears 
Wet, still more disagreeable and striking. 

5146 Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St 118, 
Hide thy tears — 

I do not bid thee not to shed them — 'twere 
Easier to stop Euphrates at its source 
Than one tear of a true and tender heart — 
But let me not behold them ; they unman me. 

5147 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
I wish'd but for a single tear, 

As something welcome, new and clear, 
I wish'd it then, I wish it still, 
Despair is stronger than my will. 

5148 Byron : Giaour. Line 12G3. 
When friendship or love our sympathies move, 

When truth in a glance should appear, 

The lips may beguile with a dimple or smile, 

But the test of affection's a tear. 

5149 Byron : The Tear. 
May no marble bestow the splendor of woe, 

Which the children of vanity rear ; 

No fiction of fame shall blazon my name, 

All I ask — all I wish — is a Tear. 

5150 Byron : The Tear. 
To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

5151 Wordsworth : Intimations of Immortality. 
My tears must stop, for every drop 

Hinders needle and thread. 

5152 Hood: Song of the Shirt. 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, 
Tears from the depth of some divine despair 
Eise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, 
In looking on the happy Autumn fields, 
And thinking of the days that are no more. 

5153 Tennyson : The Princess. Pt. iv. Line 21. 

The smile that illumines the features of beauty, 
When kindled by virtue, alluring appears; 
But smiles, tho' alluring, no magic can borrow, 
To vie with the softness of beauty in tears. 
The smiles that are sweetest are often deceiving; 
Too often a mask which the cold-hearted wears ; 
But a tear is the holiest offspring of feeling, 
And monarchs are weak before beauty in tears. 

5154 Bohn: Ms. 



TEARS — TEMPERANCE. 573 

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. 

5155 Campbell: PI. of Hope. PH. i. Line 180. 

TEETH. 

Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where? 
Then spoke I to my Girl, 
To part her lips, and show'd them there 
The quarrelets of Pearl. 

5156 Herrick : Rock of Rubies and Quarry of Pearls. 

TELEGRAPH, 

O star-eyed Science ! hast thou wander'd there, 
To waft us home the message of despair? 

5157 Campbell: PL of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 325. 

TEMPER — see Discretion. 

Think you, a little din can daunt mine ears? 

Have I not in my time heard lions roar? 

Have I not heard the sea, puff d up with winds, 

Page like an angry boar, chafed with sweat? 

Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, 

And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? 

Have I not in a pitched battle heard 

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? 

And clo you tell me of a woman's tongue? 

5158 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Oh ! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray 

Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-clay. 

5159 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 257= 

TEMPERANCE — see Abstinence, Old Age, Water. 
If all the world 
Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse, 
Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, 
The All-giver would be unthank'cl, would be unprais'd; 
Not half his riches known, and yet despis'd ; 
And we should serve him as a grudging master, 
As a penurious niggard of his wealth ; 
And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. 

5160 Milton : Comus. Line 720. 
Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature 

As if she would her children should be riotous 
With her abundance. She, good cateress, 
Means her provision only to the good, 
That live according to her sober laws, 
And holy dictate of spare Temperance. 

5161 Milton : Comus. Line 762, 



£ 74 TEMPERANCE — TEMPESTS. 

If thou well observe 
The rule of " Not too much" by temperance taught 
In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence 
Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, 
Till many years over thy head return ; 
So may st thou live, tiH, like ripe fruit, thou drop 
Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease 
Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature. 

51G2 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xi. Liue 530. 

Temp'rate in every place, — abroad, at home, 
Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; 
And health from either — he. in time prepares 
For sickness, age, and their attendant cares. 

5163 Crabbe : The Borough. Letter xvii. Line 198. 
TEMPESTS — see Storm, Sunset, Thunder, Wind. 

Sucldeine they see from midst of all the maine 

The surging waters like a mountaine rise, 

And the great sea, puft up with proud disdaiue, 

To swell above the measure of his guise, 

As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise. 

5164 Spenser: Faerie Queene. Bk. ii. Canto xii. St. 21. 

The southern wind 
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes ; 
And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, 
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. 

5165 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 1. 
I have seen tempests, when the scolding winds 

Have riv'd the knotty oaks ; and I have seen 
The ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and foam, 
To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds ; 
But never till to-night, never till now, 
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. 

5166 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Who shall face 

The blast that wakes the fury of the sea? 



The vast hulks 
Are whirled like chaff' upon the waves ; the sails 
Fly, rent like webs of gossamer ; the masts 
Are snapped asunder. 

5167 William Cullen Bryant: Hymn of the Sea. 
There is war in the skies ! 

Lo ! the black-winged legions of tempest arise 
O'er those sharp splinter'd rocks that are gleaming below 
In the soft light, so fair and so fatal, as though 
Some seraph burn'd through them, the thunderbolt search- 
ing 
Which the black cloud unbosom'd just now. 

5168 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. i. Canto iv. St. 12. 



TEMPESTS. 575 

Meanwhile 

The sun, in his setting, sent up the last smile 

Of his power, to baffle the storm. And, behold! 

O'er the mountains embattled, his armies, all gold, 

Rose and rested : while far up the dim airy crags, 

Its artillery silenced, its banners in rags, 

The rear of the tempest its sullen retreat 

Drew off slowly, receding in silence, to meet 

The powers of the night, which, now gathering afar, 

Had already sent forward oue bright, single star. 

5169 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. i. Canto iv. St. 18. 

An horrid stillness first invades the ear, 
And in that silence we the tempest fear. 

5170 Dry den : Astrcea Redux. Line 7. 

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage ; 
Till, in the furious elemental war 
Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass, 
Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours. 

5171 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 799. 

Along the woods, along the moorish fens, 
Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm ; 
And up among the loose disjointed cliffs, 
And fractured mountains wild, the brawling brook 
And cave, presageful, send a hollow moan, 
Resounding long in listening fancy's ear. 

5172 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 66. 

And sometimes too a burst of rain, 
Swept from the black horizon, broad, descends 
In one continuous flood. Still over head 
The mingling tempest weaves its gloom, and still 
The deluge deepens ; till the fields around 
Lie sunk, and flatted, in the sordid wave. 
Sudden the ditches swell ; the meadows swim. 
Red, from the hills, innumerable streams 
Tumultuous roar ; and high above its banks 
The river lift; before whose rushing tide, 
Herds, flocks, and harvests, cottages, and swains, 
Roll mingled down ; all that the winds had spar'd 
In one wild moment ruined ; the big hopes 
And well-earned treasures of the painful year. 

5173 Thomson : Seasons. Autumn. Line 330. 
The sky 

Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder, 
In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show 
In forked flashes a commanding tempest. 

5174 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act ii. Sc. 1. 



576 TEMPESTS— TEMPTATION. 

Hark! hark! deep sounds, and deeper still, 
Are howling from the mountain's bosom : 
There's not a breath of wind upon the hill, 
Yet quivers every leaf, and drops each blossom ; 
Earth groans as if beneath a heavy load. 

5175 Byron: Heaven and Earth. Pt. i. Sc. 3 
Far aloug 

From peak to peak, the rattling crags among 
Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, 
But every mountain now hath found a tongue, 
And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, 
Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud. 

5176 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 92. 
The night grows wondrous dark : deep-swelling gusts 
And sultry stillness take the rule by turns ; 

Whilst o'er our heads the black and heavy clouds 
Roll slowly on. This surely bodes a storm. 

5177 Joanna Baillie : Bayner. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

TEMPTATION — see Saints. 

How many perils doe enfold 
The righteous man to make him daily fall. 

5178 Spenser: Faerie Queene. Bk. i. Canto viii. St. 1 
Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 

The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; 
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us 
In deepest consequence. 

5179 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 
To fly the boar, before the boar pursues, 

Were to incense the boar to follow us, 

And make pursuit where he did mean no chase. 

5180 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Between the acting of a dreadful thing 

And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : 
The genius and the mortal instruments 
Are then in council ; and the state of man, 
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then 
The nature of an insurrection. 

5181 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
'Tis the temptation of the devil 

That makes all human actions evil ; 
For saints may do the same things by 
The spirit, in sincerity, 
Which other men are tempted to, 
And at the devil's instance do : 
And yet the actions be contrary, 
Just as the saints and wicked vary. 

5182 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 23a 



TEMPTATION— THANKFULNESS. 577 

The veriest hermit in the nation 

May yield, God knows, to strong temptation. 

5183 Pope : Im. of Horace. Bk. ii. Satire vi. Line 181. 

But who can view the ripen'd rose, nor seek 
To wear it ? who can curiously behold 
The smoothness and the sheen of beauty's cheek, 
Nor feel the heart can never all grow old? 

5184 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 11. 

TENDERNESS. 
Higher than the perfect song 
For which love longeth, 
Is the tender fear of wrong, 
That never wrongeth. 

5185 Bayard Taylor: Improvisations. Pt. v. 

TERROR — see Alarm. 
The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd, 
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven ; 
The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the earth, 
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful change. 

5186 Shaks. : Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 4 

THAMES— see Rivers. 

0, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream 
My great example, as it is my theme ! 
Though deep, yet clear: though gentle, yet not dull; 
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full. 

5187 Denham : Cooper's Hill. Line 189. 

The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, 
Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, 
Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, 
And seas but join the regions they divide; 
Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, 
And the new world launch forth to seek the old. 

5188 Pope : Windsor Forest. Line 397. 

THANKFULNESS — see Gratitude. 
The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 

5189 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Evermore thanks, the exchequer of th' poor; 
Which, till my infant fortune comes to years, 
Stands for my bounty. 

5190 Shaks. : Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3 
Thanks to men 

Of noble minds, is honorable meed. 

5191 Shaks. : Titus And. Act i. Sc. 2, 



578 THANKFULNESS — THIRST. 

Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, 
The bee's collected treasures sweet, 
Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet 
The still small voice of gratitude. 

5192 Gray: Ode for Music. Line 61. 

THEATRICALS — see Actors, Drama, Stage. 

Immortal Rich! how calm he sits at ease, 
'Mid snows of paper, and fierce hail of pease ; 
And, proud his mistress' orders to perform, 
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. 

5193 Pope: Dunciad. Bk. iii. Line 261 

THEFT. 

I'll example you with thievery : 
The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea : the moon's an arrant thief, 
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : 
The sea's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves 
The moon into salt tears : the earth's a thief, 
That feeds and breeds bj r a composture stolen 
From general excrement : each thing's a thief. 

5191 Shales. : Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Every true man's apparel fits j r our thief. 

5195 Shales. : M. for M. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
And easy it is 

Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know. 

5196 Shaks. : Titus. And. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Your thief looks 

Exactly like the rest, or rather better; 

'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon, 

That wise men know your felon by his features. 

5197 Byron : Werner. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
THEORY. 

'Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine 
On vain refinements vainly to refine, 
To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, 
To boast of apathy when out of pain, 
And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, 
Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules 
Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault 
That into practice they can ne'er be brought. 

5198 Churchill : Farewell. Line 47. 

THIRST — see Water. 
That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath 
Of those that die the soldier's fiery death, 
In vain impels the burning mouth to crave 
One drop — the last — to cool it for the grave. 

5199 Byron: Lara. Canto ii. St. IS 



THIRTY-FIVE — THO UGHT. 5 7§ 

THIRTY-FIVE. 
Ladies, stock and tend your hive, 
Trifle not at thirty-five ! 
For, howe'er we boast and strive, 
Life declines from thirty-five ; 
He that ever hopes to thrive, 
Must begin by thirty-five. 

5200 Dr. Johnson : To Mrs. Thrale, when thirty-five. 

Of all the barb'rous Middle Ages, that 
Which is most barb'rous is the Middle Age 
Of man ; it is — I really scarce know what ; 
But when we hover between fool and sage, 
And don't know justly what Ave would be at, — 
A period something like u printed page, 
Black letter upon fool's-cap, while our hair 
Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were ; — 

Too old for youth — too young at thirty-five, 

To herd with boys, or hoard with good three-score — 

I wonder people should be left alive ! 

But since they are, that epoch is a bore : 

Love lingers still, although 'twere late to wive ; 

And as for other love, the illusion's o'er ; 

And money, that most pure imagination, 

Gleams only through the dawn of its creation. 

5201 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto xii. Sts. 1 and 2. 

rHOUGHT — see Mind, Reflection. 
I and my bosom must debate awhile, 
And then I would no other company. 

5202 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. 

5203 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Guard well thy thought ; our thoughts are heard in heaven. 
5201- Young: Night Thoughts. Xight ii. Line 95. 

Thoughts shut up, want air, 
And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. 

5205 Young : Xight Thoughts. Night ii. Line 468. 

Thought alone is eternal. 

5206 w Given Meredith : Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto v. St, 16. 

Thoughts, like a loud and sudden rush of wings, 
Regrets and recollections of things past, 
With hints and prophecies of things to be, 
And inspirations, which, could they be things, 
And stay with us, and we could hold them fast, 
Were our good angels. — these I owe to thee. 

5207 Longfellow: Two Rivers. Sonnet Hi 



580 TEO UGI1T — THREA TS. 

Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, 

Scatters from her pictured urn 

Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. 

5208 Gray : Progress of Poesy, iii. 3. 
Thought is the measure of life. 

5209 C.G-.Leland: TheBeturnof 
When our thoughts are born, 

Though they be good and humble, one should mind 
How they are reared, or some will go astray 
And shame their mother. 

5210 Jean Ingeloiv : Gladys and her Island. Line 157. 
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which 
Men are and ought to be accountable, — 

If not to Thee, to those they influence. 

5211 Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Town. 
The ground 

Of all great thoughts is sadness. 

5212 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea. 

One thought 
Settles a life, an immortality. 

5213 Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Town. 
The value of a thought cannot be told. 

5214 Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Town. 
Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose 

runs, . 

And the thoughts of men are widened with the process ol 
the suns. 

5215 Tennyson : Locksley Hall. St. 69. 
No thought which ever stirred 

A human breast should be untold. 

5216 Bobert Browning : Paracelsus. Sc. 2. 
Thought leapt out to wed with Thought 

Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. 

5217 Tennyson : In Alemoriam. Pt. xxiii. St. 4. 

THREATS — see Defiance, Honesty. 

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, 
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till 
Thou hast howl'cl away twelve winters. 

5218 Shaks. : Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2. 
I'll note you in my book of memory. 

To scourge you for this apprehension; 
Look to it well, and say you are well warn'd. 

5219 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Unhand me, gentlemen ; — 

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me. 

5220 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc 4 



TEREA TS — THRIFT. 58 1 

Hence, 
Horrible villain ! or I'll spurn thine eyes 
Like balls before me ; I'll imhair thy bead ; 
Thou shalt be whipt with wire, and stew"d in brine, 
Smarting in ling'ring pickle. 

5221 " Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Leave wringing of your hands : Peace ; sit you down, 

And let me wring your heart : for so I shall'. 

If it be made of penetrable stuff; 

If damned custom have not braz'd it so, 

That it be proof and bulwark against sense. 

5222 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

I pr'ythee take thy fingers from my throat ; 
Sir, though I am not splenetive and rash, 
Yet have I something in me dangerous, 
Which let thv wiseness fear : awav thy hand. 

5223 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. 

For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl : 
He that stirs next to carve for his own rage, 
Holds his soul light ; he dies upon his motion. 

522-1 Shaks.: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Set hills on hills betwixt me and the man 
That utters this, and I will scale them all; 
And from the utmost top fall on his neck, 
Like thunder from a cloud. 

5225 Beaumont and Fletcher: Philaster. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Back to thy punishment, 
False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, 
Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue 
Thv ling'ring. 

5226 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 699. 

Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent: 

For if thou utt'rest but a single word . 

A cough or hem. to cross me in my speech, 

I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, 

To bellow with the damn'd ! 

5227 Joanna Baillie : Basil. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

THRIFT — see Caution, Economy. 
This was a way to thrive, and he was blest ; 
And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not. 

5228 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3 



582 THUNDER — TIME. 

THUNDER — see Tempest. 
A storm-cloud lurid with lightning, 
And a cry of lamentation, 
Repeated and again repeated, 
Deep aud loud 
As the reverberation 
Of cloud answering uuto cloud, 
Swells and rolls away in the distance, 
As if the sheeted 
Lightning retreated, 
Baffled and thwarted by the wind's resistance. 

5229 Longfelloiv : Chrislus. Golden Legend. Epilogue, 
TIME — see Age, Decay, Decision, Dispatch, Life, Mortality^ 

Mutability. 

Still the Years roll on 
More gently, but with not less mighty sweep. 
They gather up again and softly bear 
All the sweet lives that late were overwhelmed 
And lost to sight, all that in them was good, 
Noble, and truly great, aud worthy of love. 

5230 William Cullen Bryant : Flood of Years. 
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time. 

5231 Shaks. : Tv:. Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. 

5232 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Time is like a fashionable host, 

That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand ; 
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, 
Grasps-in the coiner : Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 

5233 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Come what come may ; 

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. 

5234 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 
I wasted time, and now cloth time waste me. 

5235 Shaks. : Richard II. Act v. Sc. 5. 
What's past, and what's to come, is strew'd with husks, 
And formless ruin of oblivion. 

5236 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
The end crowns all ; 

And that old common arbitrator, Time, 
Will one clay end it. 

5237 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iv. Sc. 5. 
Time's the king of men, 

For he's their parent, and he is their grave, 

And i>ives them what he will, not what they crave. 

5238 Shaks. : Pericles. Act ii. Sc. 3. 



TIME. 583 

Make use of time, let not advantage slip; 
Beauty within itself should not be wasted : 
Fair flowers, that are not gather'cl in their prime 
Rot and consume themselves in little time. 

5239 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 129 
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, 

So do our minutes hasten to their end ; 

Each changing place with that which goes before, 

In sequent toil all forwards do contend. 

5240 Shaks. : Sonnet lx. 
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, 

And delves the parallels iu beauty's brow, 

Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, 

And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. 

5241 Shaks. : Sonnet lx. 
O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out 

Against the wreckful siege of batteriug clays, 
AY hen rocks impregnable are not so stout, 
ISTor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? 

5242 Shaks. : Sonnet lxv. 
Time's glory is to calm contending kings, 

To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light, 

To stamp the seal of time in aged things, 

To wake the morn and sentinel the night, 

To wrong the wronger till he render right, 

To ruinate proud buildings with thy hours, 

And smear with dust their glittering golden towers. 

5243 Shaks. : E. of Lucrece. Line 939. 
Gather ye rosebuds while yc may, 

Old time is still a-flying ; 

And this same flower that smiles to-day, 

To-morrow will be dying. 

5244 Herrick : To Virgins to Make Miich of Time. 
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, 

Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, 

And marching single in an endless file. . . . 

To each they offer gifts after his will, 

Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all. 

5245 Emerson : Days. 
Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! 
Loitering slow, the Future creepeth — 
Arrow-swift, the Present sweepeth — 

And motionless forever stands the Past. 

5246 Schiller : Sentences of Confucius. Time. 
Forever haltless hurries Time, the Durable to gain. 

Be true, and thou shalt fetter Time with everlasting chain. 

5247 Schiller: The Immutable. 



584 TIME. 

Time conquers all, and we must Time obey. 

5248 Pope : Pastorals. Winter. Line 88 

Art is long, and Time is fleeting, 
And our hearts, though stout and brave, 
Still, like muffled drums, are beating 
Funeral marches to the grave. 

5249 Longfellow : Psalm of Life. 
Time rides with the old 

At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds 

See the near landscape fly and flow behind them, 

While the remoter fields and dim horizons 

Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them, 

So in old age things near us slip away, 

And distant things go with us. 

5250 Longfelloio : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 3. 

The bell strikes one. We take no note of time 
But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, 
Is wise in man. 

5251 Young : Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 55. 

We see Time's furrows on another's brow, 
And death intrench'd, preparing his assault ; 
How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 

5252 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 627. 
Time is eternity, 

Pregnant with all eternity can give ; 
Pregnant with all that makes Archangels smile. 
Who murders time, he crushes iu the birth 
A power ethereal, only not adored. 

5253 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 107. 

Time wasted is existence ; used, is life. 

5254 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 152. 

Nought treads so silent as the foot of time ; 
Hence we mistake our Autumn for our prime. 

5255 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 483. 
Time destroyed, 

Is suicide where more than blood is spilt. 

5256 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 292. 

Youth is not rich iu time, it may be poor ; 
Part with it as with money, sparing ; pay 
No moment but in purchase of its worth ; 
And what it's worth ask death-beds, they can tell. 

5257 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 48. 

Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, 
And tottering empires rush by their own weight. 

5258 Armstrong : A. of Preserving Health. Bk. ii. Line 542. 



TIME. 585 

Catch! then, Oh! catch, the transient hour ; 
Improve each moment as it flies ; 
Life's a short summer — man a flower — 
He dies — alas ! how soon he dies ! 

5259 Dr. Johnson : Winter. 
Noiseless falls the foot of time 

That only treads on flowers. 

5260 Spencer: Lines to Lady A. Hamilton. 
Time is hastening on, and we 

What our father's are shall be, — 
Shadow-shapes of memory ! 
Joined to that vast multitude 
Where the great are but the good. 

5261 Whittier : To my Old Schoolmaster. 
Time rolls his ceaseless course. The race of yore, 

Who danced our infancy upon their knee, 
And told our marvelling boyhood legends store, 
Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, 
How are they blotted from the things that be ! 
How few, all weak and wither'cl, of their force 
Wait, on the verge of dark eternity, 
Like stranded wrecks, the tide returning hoarse, 
To sweep them from our sight ! 

5262 Scott : Lady of the Lake. Canto iii. St. 1. 

" Where is the world? " cries Young, at eighty. " Where 
The world in which a man was born? " Alas ! 
Where is the world of eight years past? 'Twas there — 
I look for it — 'tis gone, a globe of glass 
Cracked, shivered, vanished, scarcely gazed on ere 
A silent change dissolves the glittering mass. 
Statesmen, chiefs, orators, queens, patriots, kings, 
And dandies, all are gone on the wind's wings. 

5263 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xi. St. 76. 

O Time ! Why dost not pause? Thy scythe so dirty 
With rust, should surely cease to hack and hew. 
Reset it ; shave more smoothly, also slower, 
If but to keep thy credit as a mower. 

5264 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 53. 
O Time ! the beautifier of the dead, 

Adorner of the ruin, comforter 
And only healer when the heart hath bled — 
Time ! the corrector where our judgments err, 
The test of truth, love, — sole philosopher ! 

5265 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 130. 
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, — 

Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 

5266 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 182 



586 TIME — TITHES. 

Out upon time ! it will leave no more 

Of the things to come than the things before ! 

Out upon time ! who forever will leave 

But enough of the past for the future to grieve. 

5267 Byron : Siege of Corinth. St. 18 
Still on it creeps, 

Each little moment at another's heels, 

Till hours, clays, years, and ages are made up 

Of such small parts as these, and men look back, 

Worn and bewilder'd, wond'ring how it is. 

Thou travellest like a ship in the wide ocean, 

Which hath no bounding shore to mark its progress ; 

Time ! ere long I shall have clone with thee. 

5268 Joamia Baillie : Bayner. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Believe me, Time's of monstrous use ; 

But, ah! how subject to abuse ! 

It seems that with him, folks were often cloy'd; 

1 do pronounce it, Time's & public good, 
Just like a youthful Beauty — to be woo'd, 
Made much of, and be properly enjoy'cl. 

5269 . Peter Pindar : Lyric Odes. Ode xix. 1785- 
Oh ! never chicle the wing of time, 

Or say 'tis tardy in its flight ! 

You'll And the days speed quick enough, 

If you but husband them aright. 

The span of life is waning fast ; 

Beware, unthinking youth, beware! 

Thy soul's eternity depends 

Upon the record moments bear ! 

5270 Eliza Cook: Time. 

TIME-SERVING. 
That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain 
And follows but for form, 
Will pack, when it begins to rain, 
And leave thee in the storm. 

5271 Shaks. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

TITHES. 

This priest he merry is aud blithe 

Three quarters of a year, 

But oh ! it cuts him iike a scythe, 

When tithiug-time draws near. 

He then is full of frights and fears, 

As one at point to die, 

And long before the day appears 

He heaves up many a sigh. 

5272 Cowper : Yearly Distress. St. 2. 



TITLES — TOBA CCO. 587 

TITLES — see Ancestry, Honor, Nobility. 

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives ; 

Aud where there is no difference in men's worth, 

Titles are jests. 

5273 Beaumont and Fletcher : King or No King. Acti. Sc. 1. 
Titles are marks of honest men and wise ; 

The fool or knave that wears a title, lies. 

5274 Young : Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 137. 
Titles, the servile courtier's lean reward, 

Sometimes the pay of virtue, but more oft 

The hire which greatness gives to slaves aud sycophants. 

5275 Bowe : Jane Shore. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Titles of honor acid not to his worth, 

Who is himself an honor to his titles. 

5276 Ford : Lady's Trial. Act i. Sc. 3. 

TOASTS. 

Quiet days, fair issue, and long life. 

5277 Shaks. : Tempest. Act iv. Sc. L 
To the old, long life and treasure ; 

To the young, all health and pleasure. 

5278 Ben Jonson : Metamorphosed Gipsies. Song. 
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen, 

Here's to the widow of fifty ; 

Here's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, 

And here's to the housewife that's thrifty ; 

Let the toast pass : 

Drink to the lass, 

I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. 

5279 Sheridan: School for Scandal. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

TOBACCO— see Smoking-, Snuff. 

Tobacco, an outlandish weed, 

Doth in the land strange wonders breed ; 

It taints the breath, the blood it dries, 

It burns the head, it blinds the eyes ; 

It dries the lungs, scourgeth the lights, 

It 'numbs the soul, it dulls the sprites; 

It brings a man into a maze, 

And makes him sit for others' gaze; 

It mars a man, it mars a purse, 

A lean one fat, a fat one worse ; 

A white man black, a black man white, 

A night a clay, a day a night ; 

It turns the brain like cat in pan, 

And makes a Jack a gentleman. 

5280 Fairholt : J. Payne. Collier's M:j. 



588 TOBA CCO — TOIL. 

Carmen 
Are got into the yellow starch, and chimney sweepers 
To their tobacco, aud strong waters. 

5281 Ben Jonson : Devil is an Ass. Act i. Sc. 1< 
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys. 
Unfriendly to society's chief joys, 

Thy worst effect is banishing for hours 
The sex whose presence civilizes ours : 
Thou art indeed the drug a gardener wants, 
To poison vermin that infest his plants. 

5282 Cowper : Conversation. Line 251. 

TO-DAY. 

To-day is ours ; what do we fear? 
To-day is ours ; Ave have it here. 
Let's treat it kindty, that it may 
Wish, at least, with us to stay. 
Let's banish business, banish sorrow; 
To the gods belongs to-morrow. 

5283 Cowley : The Epicure. 
Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; 

And in one little word, our life, what is it but — To-day? 

5284 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of To-day. 
Thou art no dreamer, O thou stern To-day ! 

The dead past had its dreams ; the real is thine. 

5285 Julia C. B. Dorr : Three Days. 
What dost thou bring to me, O fair To-day, 

That comest o'er the mountains with swift feet? 

5286 Julia C. B. Dorr : To-day. 

TOIL — see Industry, Labor, "Work. 
Toil, and be strong; by toil the flaccid nerves 
Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone : 
The greener juices are by toil subdued, 
Mellow'd, and subtilis'd ; the vapid old 
Expell'd, and all the rancor of the blood. 

5287 Armstrong : Art of Preserving Health. Bk. iii. Line 39. 
He chooses best, whose labor entertains 

His vacant fancy most ; the toil you hate 

Fatigues you soon, and scarce improves your limbs. 

5288 Armstrong : Art of Preserving Health. Bk. iii. Line 167. 
The body . . . 

Much toil demands ; the lean elastic less. 
While winter chills the blood and binds the veins. 
No labors are too hard; by those you 'scape 
The slow diseases of the torpid year, 
Endless to name. 

5289 Armstrong : Art of Preserving Health. Bk. iii. Line 357 



TOIL — TO-MORRO W. 589 

Toil, and be glad ! let industry inspire 

Into your quickened limbs her buoyant breath ! 

Who does not act is dead ; absorbed entire 

In miry sloth, no pride, no joy he hath : 

O leaden-hearted meu, to be in love with death! 

5290 Thomson : Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. St. 54. 
There is a time when toil must be preferr'd, 

Or joy, by mistimed fondness, is undone. 

5291 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 798. 

TO-MORROW. 
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
To the last syllable of recorded time ; 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. 

5292 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5. 
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, 

To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise ; 
Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight 
With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, 
How grateful will appear her dawning rays, 
As favors unexpected doubly please. 

5293 Congreve : Letter to Cobham. 
To-morrow ! never yet was born 

In earth's dull atmosphere a thing so fair — 
Never tripped, with footsteps light as air, 
So glad a vision o'er the hills of morn. 

5294 Julia C. R. Dorr : Three Days. 
O, fair To-morrow, what our souls have missed 

Art thou not keepiug for us, somewhere, still? 
The buds of promise that have never blown — 
The tender lips that we have never kissed — 
The song whose high, sweet strain eludes our skill, 
The one white pearl that life hath never known. 

5295 Julia C. R. Dorr : Three Days. 
There is no morrow : Though before our face 

The shadow named so stretches, we alway 
Tail to o'ertake it, hasten as we may. 

5296 Margaret J. Preston : One Day, 
To-morrow comes, and we are where? 

Then let us live to-day. 

5297 Schiller : The Victory Feast. St. 13. 
A shining isle in a stormy sea, 

We seek it ever with smiles and sighs ; 
To-day is sad. In the fair To-be, 
Serene and lovely To-morrow lies. 

5298 Mary Clemmer : To-morrow. 



590 TO-MORRO \V— TONGUE. 

To-morrow is that lamp upon the marsh, which a traveller 
never reachcth; 

To-morrow, the rainbow's cup, coveted prize of ignorance ; 

To-morrow, the shifting anchorage, dangerous trust of 
mariners ; 

To-morroAV, the wrecker's beacon, wily snare of the 
destroyer. 

Reconcile conviction with delay, and To-morrow is a fatal 
lie; 

Frighten resolutions into action, To-morrow is a whole- 
some truth. 

5299 Tapper : Proverbial Phil. Of To-morrow. 
Par off I hear the crowing of the cocks, 

And through the opening door that time unlocks 
Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep. 

5300 Longfellow : To-morrow. 
To-morrow is a satire on to-day, 

And shows its weakness. 

5301 Young : Old Man's Relapse. Line 6. 
In human hearts what bolder thought can rise, 

Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn? 
Where is to-morrow ? 

5302 Young : Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 373. 
To-morrow's action ! Can that hoary wisdom, 

Borne down with years, still dote upon to-morrow, — 

That fatal mistress of the young, the lazy, 

The coward, and the fool, condemn'd to lose 

A useless life in waiting for to-morrow ; 

To gaze with longing eyes upon to-morrow, 

Till interposing death destroys the prospect ! 

5303 Dr. Johnson : Irene. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? 

Whom young and old, and strong and weak, 
Eich and poor, through joy and sorrow, 
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek — 
In thy place — ah ! well-a-day ! 
We find the thing we fled — To-day. 

5304 Shelley : To-morrow. 

TONGUE — see Eloquence, Language, Loquacity, Talking. 
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. 

5305 Shales.: Com. of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Oh that delightful engine of her thoughts, 

That blabb'd them with such pleasing eloquence, 
Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage, 
Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung 
Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear. 

5306 Shaks. : Titus And. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



TONG UE — TRADE. 5 9 1 

"While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. 

5307 " Shaks. : Tempest. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein 

Omit the oaths which true wit cannot need ; . 
Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin : 
He pares his apple that will cleanly feed. 

5308 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 11. 
Sacred interpreter of human thought, 

How few respect or use thee as they ought ! 
But all shall give account of every wrong, 
Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue ; 
Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, 
Or sell their glory at a market-price ! 

5309 Cowper : Conversation. Line 23. 

TOOTHACHE. 
There was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the toothache patiently. 

5310 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1. 

TOWN. 

The town divided, each runs several ways, 
As passion, humor, int'rest, party sways, 
Things of no moment, color of the hair, 
Shape of a leg, complexion brown or fair, 
A dress well chosen, or a patch misplac'd, 
Conciliate favor, or create distaste. 

5311 Churchill: Rosciad. Line 37. 

TRADE. 

But times are alter'd ; trade's unfeeling train 
Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain ; 
Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, 
Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose. 

5312 ' Goldsmith : Des. Village. Line 63. 
Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds 

A stream of liberal and heroic deeds ; 
The swell of pity, not to be confined 
Within the scanty limits of the mind. 

5313 Cowper: Charity. Line 244. 
If a boundless plenty be the robe, 

Trade is the golden girdle of the globe, 
Wise to promote whatever end he means, 
God opens fruitful Nature's various scenes, 
Each climate needs what other climes produce, 
And offers something to the general use ; 
No land but listens to the common call, 
And in return receives supply from all. 

5314 Cowper : Charity. Line 85, 



592 TRADE — TEA VELLING. 

In every age aud clime we see, 
Two of a trade can ne'er agree. 

5315 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 21. 

TRAINING. 
Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted ; 
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, 
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. 

5316 Shaks.: 2 Henry VI Act iii. Sc. 1. 

TRAITOR — see Rebellion, Treason. 

Remember him, the villain, righteous heav'n! 
In thy great day of vengeance blast the traitor, 
And his pernicious counsel, who, for wealth, 
For power, the pride of greatness, or revenge, 
"Would plunge his native land in civil wars. 

5317 Rowe : Jane Shore. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

TRANSLATION. 

Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. 

5318 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

TRANSPORT — see Passion. 

On such a theme 'tis impious to be calm ; 
Passion is reason, transport temper, here ! 

5319 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 639. 

TRANSUBSTANTIATION. 

He was the Word that spake it, 
He took the bread and brake it ; 
And what that Word did make it, 
I do believe and take it. 

5320 John Donne : On the Sacrament. 1 

TRAVELLING — see Authors,, Home. 

When I was at home, I was in a better place ; 
But travellers must be content. 

5321 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

To a wise man all the world's his soil : 
It is not Italy, nor Prance, nor Europe, 
That must bound me, if my fates call me forth. 

5322 BenJonson: Volpone. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

1 These lines have been variously assigned as well as misquoted, but the 
author of them is undoubtedly Donne. Sherlock, in his " Practical Chris- 
tian," 1698, gives them as follows : 

" Christ was the Word, and spake it, 
He took the bread and brake it; 
And what the Word doth make it, 
That I believe and take it." 



TEA YELLING — TREASON. 593 

The man who, with undaunted toils 
Sails unknown seas to unknown soils, 
With various wonders feasts his sight : 
What stranger wonders does he write ! 
We read, and in description view 
Creatures which Adam never knew : 
For, when we risk no contradiction 
It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction. 

5323 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 10. 
Travel is a ceaseless fount of surface education, 

But its wisdom will be simply superficial, if thou add not 
thoughts to thiugs. 

5324 Tupper : Proverbial Phil, Of Things. 
In travelling 

I shape myself betimes to idleness 
And take fools' pleasures. . . . 

5325 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i. 
Returning he proclaims by many a grace, 

By shrugs and strange contortions of his face, 
How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, 
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. 

5326 Cowper : Prog, of Error. Line 413. 
I can't but say it is an awkward sight 

To see one's native land receding through 
The growing waters : it unmans one quite, 
Especially when life is rather new. 

5327 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 12. 
There is nothing gives a man such spirits, 

Leavening his blood as cayenne doth a curry, 

As going at full speed — no matter where its 

Direction be, so 'tis but in a hurry, 

And merely for the sake of its own merits ; 

For the less cause there is for all this flurry, 

The greater is the pleasure in arriving 

At the great end of travel — which is driving. 

5328 Byron : Don Juan. Canto x. St. 72. 

She hau resolved that he should travel through 

All European climes, by land or sea, 

To mend his former morals, and get new, 

Especially in France and Italy, 

(At least this is the thing most people do). 

5329 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 191- 

TREASON — see Danger, Deceit, King's, Sedition, Traitor. 
Treason doth never prosper : what's the reason? 
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 

5330 Sir John Harrington : Epigrams. Bk. iv. Epigram 5, 



594 TREASON— TREES. 

Thou art a traitor, and a miscreant ; 
Too good to be so, and too bad to live. 

5331 Shaks. : Richard II. Act i Sc. 1. 
Treason is but trusted like the fox ; 

Who, ne'er so tame, ' so cherish'd, and lock'd up, 
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. 

5332 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2. 
That man, that sits within a monarch's heart, 

And ripens in the sunshine of his favor, 
Would he abuse the countenance of the king, 
Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach, 
In shadow of such greatness ! 

5333 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Treason and murther, ever kept together, 

As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose. 

5334 Shaks. : Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
So Judas kiss'd his master, 

And cried — All hail! when as he meant — all harm. 

5335 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 7. 
Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried ; 

Successful crimes alone are justified. 

5336 Dryden : Medals. Line 207. 
Is there not some chosen curse, 

Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, 
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man 
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin? 

5337 Addison : Cato. Act i. Sc. 1. 
The man, who pauses on the paths of treason, 

Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. 

5338 Aaron Hill : Henry V. Act 1. 
I know that there are angry spirits 

And turbulent mutterers of stifled treason, 
Who lurk in narrow r places, and walk out 
Muffled to whisper curses to the night ; 
Disbanded soldiers, discontented ruffians, 
And desperate libertines who brawl in taverns. 

5339 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act iv. Sc. 1 
Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave, 

Whose treason, like a deadly blight, 
Comes o'er the councils of the brave, 
And blasts them in their hour of might — ! 

5340 Moore : Lalla Rookh. Fire-Worshippers. 
TREES — see Garden, Oak. 

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun 
Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look 
On a departing lover — most sereue. 

5341 Robert Brovming : Pauline. Line 726. 

1 This reading is given by A. AUott in his " England's Parnassus," 1600. 



TREES. 595 

Father, thy hand 
Hath reared these venerable columns, thou 
Didst weave this verdant roof. Thou didst look down 
Upon the naked earth, and, forthwith, rose 
All these fair ranks of trees. They, in thy sun, 
Budded, and shook their green leaves in thy breeze, 
And shot towards heaven. 

oof 2 William C ull en Bryant : Forest Hymn. 

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned 

To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. 

And spread the roof above them — ere he framed 

The lofty vault, to gather and roll back 

The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, 

Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, 

And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks 

And supplication. 

5343 William Cullen Bryant : Forest Hymn. 
These shades 

Are still the abodes of gladness; the thick roof 

Of green and stirring branches is alive 

And musical with birds, that sing and sport 

In wantonness of spirit; while below 

The squirrel, with raised paws and form erect, 

Chirps merrily. 

5344 William Cullen Bryant : Inscription for the Entrance 

[to a Wood. 
So bright in death I used to say, 
So beautiful through frost and cold ! 
A lovelier thing I know to-day, 
The leaf is growing old, 
And wears in grace of duty done, 
The gold and scarlet of the sun. 

5345 Margaret E. Sangster : A Maple Leaf. 

Sure thou did'st flourish once ! and many springs, 
Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, 
Passed o'er thy head ; many light hearts and wings, 
Which now are dead, loclg'd in thy living bowers. 

And still a new succession sings and flies ; 

Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot 

Towards the old and still-enduring skies ; 

While the low violet thrives at their root. 

5346 Henry Vaughan: The Timber. 

Woodman, spare that tree ! 
Touch not a single bough ! 
In youth it sheltered me, 
And I'll protect it now. 

5347 George P. Morris : Woodman, Spare that Tree- 



59G TREES— TROY. 

The trees were gazing up into the sky, 

Their bare arms stretched in prayer for the snows. 

5348 Alexander Smith : A Life-Dram*. Sc. 2. 

TRIALS. 
We learn through trial. 

5349 Margaret J. Preston : Attainment. St. 7. 

TRICKERY. 

That for ways that are dark 
And for tricks that are vain, 
The heathen Chinee is peculiar. 

5350 Bret Harte : Plain Language from Truthful James. 

TRIFLER. 

Whether he measure earth, compute the sea, 
Weigh sunbeams, carve a fly, or spit a flea, 
The solemn trifler with his boasted skill 
Toils much, and is a solemn trifler still. 

5351 Coivper : Charity. Line 353. 

TRIFLES. 
Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, 
Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys. 

5352 * Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

It is a note 
Of upstart greatness to observe and watch 
For these poor trifles, which the noble mind 
Neglects and scorns. 

5353 Ben Jonson : Sejanus. Act v. Sc. 8. 
Trifles themselves are elegant in him. 

5354 Pope : Epis. to dfiss Blount. Line 4. 
Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; 

Small sands the mountain, moments make the year ; 
And trifles life. 

5355 Young : Love of Fame. Satire vi. Line 193. 

TRINITY. 

Since you're learn'd in Greek, let's see 
Something against the Trinity. 

5356 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 10. 

TROY. 

Troy, for ten long years, her foes withstood, 
And daily bleeding bore th' expense of blood : 
Now for thick streets it shows an empty space, 
Or only fill'd with tombs of her own perish'd race, 
Herself becomes the sepulchre of what she was. 

5357 Dnjden : Pyth. Philosophy. (Ovid's Met. xv.) Line 630. 



TRUTH. 597 

rRUTH — see Falsity, Fiction, Honor, Lies, Oaths, Philos- 
ophy, Roses. 
The truth you speak cloth lack some gentleness, 
And time to speak it in ; you rub the sore, 
When you should bring the plaster. 

5358 Shaks. : Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
This is all as true as it is strange ; 

Nay, it is teu times true ; for truth is truth 
To th' end of reckouing. 

5359 Shaks. : M. for M. Act v. Sc. 1. 
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 

5360 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
If circumstances lead me, I will find 

Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed 
Within the centre. 

5361 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : 

The eternal years of God are hers ; 
But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, 
And dies among his worshippers. 

5362 William Cullen Bryant : The Battle-field. 
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie ; 

A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 

5363 Herbert : Temple. Church Porch. St. 13. 
Thy actions to thy words accord ; thy words 

To thy large heart give utterance due ; thy heart 
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. 

5364 Milton : Par. Regained. Bk. iii. Line 9. 
Yet all of us hold this for true, 

No faith is to the wicked due ; 
For truth is precious and divine, 
Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. 

5365 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto II. Line 255. 
True as the dial to the sun, 

Although it be not shiu'cl upon. 

5366 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto ii. Line 175. 
Truth has such a face and such a mien, 

As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. 

5367 Dryden: Hind and Panther. Pt. i. Line 33. 
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true, 

Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. 

Without good breeding, truth is disapprov'd ; 
That only makes superior sense belov'd. 

5368 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 13, 
Truth . . . needs no flowers of speech. 

5369 Pope : Satire iv. Line 3. 



598 TRUTH. 

Princes, like beauties, from their youth 
Are strangers to the voice of Truth. 

5370 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 1. 

Truth ! why shall every wretch of letters 

Dare to speak truth against his betters ! 

Let ragged virtue stand aloof, 

Nor mutter accents of reproof; 

Let ragged wit a mute become, 

When wealth and power would have her dumb. 

5371 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. iii. Line 875. 

Truths on which depend our main concern, 
That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, 
Shine by the side of every path we tread 
With such a lustre, he that runs may read. 

5372 Cowper : Tirocinium. Line 77. 

Marble and recording brass decay, 
And, like the 'graver's memory, pass away; 
The works of man inherit, as is just, 
Their author's frailty, and return to dust ; 
But Truth divine forever stands secure, 
Its head as guarded, as its base is sure ; 
Fixed in the rolling flood of endless years, 
The pillar of the eternal plan appears ; 
The raving storm and dashing wave defies, 
Built by that Architect who built the skies. 

5373 Cowper: Conversation. Line 551. 

" Can this be true?" an arch observer cries, — 
" Yes," rather moved, " I saw it with these e) r es. 
Sir ! I believe it on that ground alone ; 
I could not had I seen it with my own." 

5374 Cowper : Conversation. Line 231. 

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, 
And all are slaves beside. 

5375 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 133. 

All truth is precious, if not all divine, 

And what dilates the pow'rs must needs refine. 

5376 Cowper: Charity. Line 331. 

'Tis strange, but true, for truth is always strange ; 
Stranger than fiction ; if it could be told, 
How much would novels gain by the exchange ! 
How differently the world would men behold! 
How oft would vice and virtue places change : 
The new world would be nothing to the old, 
If some Columbus of the moral seas 
Would show mankind their soul's antipodes. 

5377 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 101. 



TRUTH. 599 

All that I know is, that the facts I state 
Are true as truth has ever been of late. 

5378 Byron : Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 85. 

Truth's fountains may be clear — her streams are muddy, 
Aud cut through such cauals of contradiction, 
That she must often uavigate o'er fiction. 

5379 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xv. St. 88. 

No words suffice the secret soul to show 
And truth denies all eloquence to woe. 

5380 Byron : Corsair. Canto iii. St. 22. 

Truth is one ; 
And, in all lands beneath the sun, 
Whoso hath eyes to see may see 
The tokens of its unity. 

5381 Whittier : Miriam. 

Truth ! Truth ! where is the sound 
Of thy calm, unflatt'ring voice to be found? 
"We may go to the Senate, where Wisdom rules, 
And find but deceiv'd or deceiving fools : 
Who dare trust the sages of old, 
When one shall unsay what another has told? 
And even the lips of childhood and youth 
But rarely echo the tone of Truth. 

5382 . Eliza Cook: Truth. 
Who never doubted, never half believed, 

Where doubt, there truth is, 'tis her shadoAv. 

5383 Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Tovm. 

The truth of truths is love. 

5384 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Another and a Better World. 

The nimble lie 
Is like the second-hand upon a clock ; 
We see it fly ; while the hour-hand of truth 
Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, 
And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike 
Till it has reached the goal. 

5385 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. III. v. 

Weakness never needs be falseness : truth is truth in each 

degree 
Thunderpealed by God to Nature, whispered by my soul to 

me. 

5386 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz. Line 150. 

Truth is truth howe'er it strike. 

5387 Robert Browning : La Saisiaz. Line 198. 

Truth is more than a dream and a song. 

5388 Schiller : The Hostage. Last St. 



600 TRUTH— TULIPS. 

Truth is eternal, and the Son of Heaven, 

Bright effluence of th' immortal ray. 

Chief cherub, and chief lamp, of that high sacred Seven, 

Which guard the throne by night, and are its light by day ; 

First of God's darling attributes. 

5389 Swift: Ode to Dr. Wm. Saner oft. 
To-day abhorr'cl, to-morrow adored, 

So round and round we run ; 

And ever the Truth comes uppermost. 

5390 Charles Mackay : Eternal Justice. St. 2. 
1 love love : truth's no cleaner thing than love. 

5391 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. iii. Line 735. 
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all 

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 

5392 Keats : Ode on a Grecian Urn. 
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. 

5393 James Russell Lowell : Present Crisis. St. 8. 
Truth needs not, . . . the eloquence of oaths. 

5394 Peter Pindar : A Benevolent Epistle to John Nichols. 
The sages say, Dame Truth delights to dwell, 

Strange mansion ! in the bottom of a well. 
Questions are, then, the windlass and the rope 
That pull the grave old gentlewoman up. 

5395 Peter Pindar : Birthday Ode. 

Flattery's the turnpike road to Fortune's door — 
Truth is a narrow lane, all full of quags 
Leading to broken heads, abuse, and rags, 
And workhouses, — sacl refuge for the poor ! — 
Flattery's a Mountebank so spruce — gets riches ; 
Truth, a plain Simon Pure, a Quaker Preacher, 
A Moral Mender, a disgusting Teacher, 
That never got a sixpence by her Speeches ! 

5396 Peter Pindar : Lyric Odes. [1785.] Ode ix. 
Truth needs not, John, the eloquence of oaths, 

Not more so than a decent suit of clothes 
Requires of broad gold lace th' expensive glare, 
That makes the linsey-woolsey million stare. 

5397 Peter Pindar : Benevolent Epistle to Nichols. 

TULIPS. 

Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays 

Her idle freaks ; from family diffused 

To family, as flies the father-clust, 

The varied colors run ; and while they break 

On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, 

With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 

5398 Thomson ; Seasons. Spring. Line 539, 



TURKEYS— TWICKENHAM. 601 

TURKEYS — see Eating. 
How bless'd, how envied were our life, 
Could we but 'scape the poulterer's knife ! 
But man, curs'd man, on turkeys preys, 
And Christmas shortens all our days : 
Sometimes with oysters we combine, 
Sometimes assist the savory chine. 
From the low peasant to the lord, 
The turkey smokes on every board. 

5399 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 88. 

TURNPIKE ROAD. 

What a delightful thing's a turnpike road ! 

So smooth, so level, such a mode of shaving 

The earth, as scarce the eagle in the broad 

Air can accomplish, with his wide wings waving; 

Had such been cut in Phaeton's time, the god 

Had told his son to satisfy his craving 

With the York mail ; — but onward as we roll, 

" Surgit amari aliquid " — the toll ! 

5400 Byron : Don Juan. Canto x. St. 78. 

TURTLE. 
Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow, 
It almost makes me wish, I vow, 
To have two stomachs, like a cow! 
And lo ! as with the cud, an inward thrill 
Upheaved his waistcoat and disturb'd his frill, 
His mouth was oozing, and he work'cl his jaw — 
" I almost think that I could eat one raw ! " 

5401 Hood: The Turtles. 

TWICKENHAM. 
Know, all the distant din that world can keep, 
Rolls o'er my grotto and but soothes my sleep. 
There, my retreat the best companions grace, 
Chiefs out of war and statesmen out of place. 
There, St. John mingles with my friendly bowl 
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 

5402 Pope : Satire i. Line 123. 
Thou who shalt stop where Thames' translucent wave 
Shines, a broad mirror, through the shady cave, 

Where lingering drops from mineral roofs distiL, 
And pointed crystals break the sparkling rill ; 
Unpolish'd gems no ray on pride bestow, 
And latent metals innocently glow. 
Approach. Great nature, studiously behold 
And eye the mine without a wish for gold. 

5403 Pope; On his Grotto at Twickenham. 



C02 TWICKENHAM— TWILIGHT. 

Slow let us trace the matchless Yale of Thames ; 

Pair-winding up to where the Muses haunt, 

In Twickenham's bowers, and for their Pope implore. 

5404 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 1427. 

TWILIGHT — see Evening-, Morning-, Night, Sunrise, Sunset. 
Soft hour ! which wakes the wish and melts the heart 
Of those who sail the seas, on the first day 
When they from their sweet friends are torn apart; 
Or fills with love the pilgrim on his way, 
As the far bell of vesper makes him start, 
Seeming to weep the dying day's decay; 
Is this a fancy which our reason scorns? 
Ah ! surely nothing dies but something mourns ! 

5405 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 108. 
The moon is bleached as white as wool, 

And just dropping under; 
Every star is gone but three, 
And they hang far asunder, — 
There's a sea-ghost all in gray, 
A tall shape of wonder ! 

5406 Jean Ingelow : S. of the Night Watches. Morn. Watch. 
The summer's songs are hushed. Up the lone shore 

The weary waves wash sadly, and a grief 
Sounds in the wind, like farewells fond and brief : 
The cricket's chirp but makes the silence more. 

5407 Celia Thaxter : Twilight. St. 3. 
Peacefully 

The quiet stars came out, one after one ; 
The holy twilight fell upon the sea, 
The summer day was clone. 

5408 Celia Tliaxter : A Summer Day. St. 15. 
Fades the light, 

And afar 

Goeth day, cometh night, 

And a star 

Leadeth all 

Speedeth all 

To their rest. 

5409 Bret Harte : Cadet Grey. Canto ii. St. 27. 
The air is full of hints of grief, 

Strange voices touched with pain — 
The pathos of the falling leaf 
And rustling of the rain. 

5410 T. B. Aldrich : Landscape. Ticilight. 
The deathbed of a day, how beautiful. 

5411 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Library and Balcony 



TWILIGHT— TYRANNY. 603 

The west is broken into bars 
Of orange, gold, and gray; 
Gone is the sun, come are the stars, 
And night infolds the day. 

5412 George Macdonald: Songs of the Summer Nights, 

One by one the flowers close, 

Lily and dewy rose 

Shutting their tender petals from the moon : 

The grasshoppers are still ; but not so soon 

Are still the noisy crows. 

5413 Christina G. Rossetti. Twilight Calm. 
The sky is blue above, 

And cool the green sod lies below ; 
It is the hour that claims for love 
The halcyon moments as they flow. 

5414 James T Fields : Summer-Evening Melody. 
The summer day is closed — the sun is set : 

Well they have done their office, those bright hours, 
The latest of whose train goes softly out 
In the red west. 

5415 William Cullen Bryant : An Evening Reverie. 
Still Twilight, welcome ! Rest, how sweet art thou ! 
Now eve o'erhangs the western cloud's thick brow ; 

The far-stretch'd curtain of retiring light, 

With fiery treasures fraught ; that on the sight 

Flash from its bulging sides, where darkness lowers, 

In Fancy's eye, a chain of mould'ring tow'rs; 

Or craggy coasts just rising into view, 

Midst jav'lins dire and darts of streaming blue. 

5416 Bloomfield : The Farmer's Boy. Slimmer. 
O Twilight ! spirit that dost render birth 

To dim enchantments — melting heaven to earth — 
Leaving on craggy hills and running streams 
A softness like the atmosphere of dreams. 

5417 Mrs. Norton : Picture of Twilight. 

TYRANNY — see Aggression, Mercy, Necessity, Treason. 
I grant him bloody, 
Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, 
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin 
That has a name. 

5418 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 3 
How can tyrants safely govern home, 

Unless abroad they purchase great alliance. 

5419 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
He hath no friends but what are friends for fear; 
Which, in his dearest need, will fly from him. 

5420 Shaks. : Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2 



604 TYRANNY. 

Till now you have gone on, and fill'd the time 
With all licentious measure, making your wills 
The scope of justice ; till now, myself, and such 
As slept within the shadow of your power. 
Have wander'd with our travers'd arms, and breath'd 
Our sufferance vainly. 

5421 Shaks. : Timon of A. Act v. Sc. 5. 

I knew him tyrannous ; and tyrants' fears 
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years. 

5422 Shaks. : Pericles. Act i. Sc. 2. 

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 

5423 Shaks. : Pericles. Act i. Sc. 2. 

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known — 
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own. 

5424 Herrick: Aph. Kings and Tyrants. 

The tyrant should take heed to what he cloth, 
Siuce every victim-carrion turns to use, 
And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, 
Against each piled injustice, 
of 25 Mrs. Browning : Casa Guidi Windows. Pt. ii. Line 673. 

Each animal, 
By natural instinct taught, spares his own kind: 
But man. the tyrant man ! revels at large, 
Freebooter unrestrain'd, destroys at will 
The whole creation ; men and beasts his prey, 
These for his pleasure, for his glory those. 

5426 Somerville : Field Sports. Line 94. 

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that 

Of blood and chains? The despotism of vice — 

The weakness and the wickedness of luxury — 

The negligence — the apathy — the evils 

01 sensual sloth — produce ten thousand tyrants, 

Whose delegated cruelty surpasses 

The worst acts of one energetic master, 

However harsh and hard in his own bearing. 

5427 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Tyranny 
Is far the w>rst of treasons. Dost thou deem 
None rebels except subjects? The prince who 
Neglects or violates his trust is more 
A brigand than the robber-chief. 

5428 Byron ■ Tico Foscan. Act ii. Sc. L 



UNCERTAINTY— USURPATION. 005 

U. 

UNCERTAINTY. 
Really, if a man won't let us know 
That he's alive, he's dead, or should be so. 

5429 Byron : Beppo. St. 35. 

UNCLE — see Relation. 

Tut, tut ! 
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle. 

5430 Shaks. : Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

UNFAITHFULNESS. 

Who should be trusted, when one's own right hand 

Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus, 

I am sony I must never trust thee more, 

But count the world a stranger for thy sake. 

The private wound is deepest. 

5431 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 

UNITY. 

Two souls with but a single thought, 
Two hearts that beat as one. 

5432 Maria White Lowell : Ingomar the Barbarian. Act ii. 

UNKINDNESS— see Friendship. 

In nature there's no blemish but the mind ; 
None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind. 
Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous evil 
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil. 

5433 Shaks. : * Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
This was the most unkindest cut of all. 

5434 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 2, 

USEFULNESS. 
Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, 
But to the earth some special good cloth give ; 
Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : 
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; 
And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. 

5435 Shaks. : Rom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, 

But gold that's put to use, more gold begets. 

5436 Shaks.: Venus and A. Line 767. 

USURPATION. 
A sceptre, snatch'd with an unruly hand, 
Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd. 

5437 Shaks. : King John. Act iii. Sc. 4 



606 US URPA TION— VALOR. 

Though usurpers sway the rule awhile, 

Yet heavens are just, aud time suppresseth wrongs. 

5^38 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



VACUITY — see Folly, Stupidity. 

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes, 
And gaping mouth that testified surprise. 

5439 Dryden : Cym. and Iph. Line 107. 
He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, 

And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 

5440 . Dryden : Cym. and Iph. Line 84. 
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come, 

Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. 

5441 Pope: Epigram. 

VALENTINES, VALENTINE'S DAY. 
Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, 
Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day; 
But by their flight I never can divine 
When I shall couple with my Valentine. 

5442 Herrick : Aph. To His Valentine. 
Apollo has peeped through the shutter, 

And awaken'd the witty and fair ; 
The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, 
The twopenny post's in despair ; 
The breath of the morning is fliuging 
A magic on blossom, on spray, 
And cockneys and sparrows are singing 
In chorus on Valentine's Day. 

5443 Praed : Song for the ltth of February. 
On paper curiously shaped 

Scribblers to-day of every sort, 
In verses Valentines y'clep'd, 
To Venus chime their annual court. 
I too will swell the motley throng, 
And greet the all auspicious day, 
Whose privilege permits my song, 
My love thus secret to convey. 

5444 Bohn: Ms. 

VALOR — see Contempt, Courage. 
Fear to do base unworthy things is valor; 
If they be done to us, to suffer them, 
Is valor too. 

5445 Ben Jonson : New Inn. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



VALOR — VARIETY. 007 

When valor preys on reason, 
It eats the sword it fights with. 
54-46 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 11. 

CANITY. 
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant 
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 

5447 Shaks.: Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Hev clay, what a sweep of vanity comes this way. 

5448 Shaks.': Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Where now, ye lying vanities of life ! 

Ye ever-tempting, ever-cheating train! 

Where are ye now? and what is your amount? 

Vexation, disappointment, and remorse. 

Sad, sickening thought! and yet deluded man, 

A scene of crude disjointed visions past, 

And broken slumbers, rises still resolved, 

With new-flushed hopes, to run the giddy round. 

5449 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 209. 
But one admirer has the painted lass ; 

Nor finds that one, but in her looking-glass. 

5450 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 213. 
What dotage will not Vanity maintain? 

What web too weak to catch a modern brain? 

5451 Cowper: Expostulation. Line 630. 
Ecclesiastes said that " all is vanity " — 

Most modern preachers say the same, or show it 

By their examples of true Christianity : 

In short, all know, or very soon may know it ; 

And in this scene of all-coufessed inanity, 

By saint, by sage, by preacher, and by poet, 

Must I restrain me through the fear of strife, 

From holding up the nothingness of life? 

5452 Byron : Don Juan. Canto vii. St. 6. 

VARIETY — see Change. 
Variety's the source of joy below. 
From whence still fresh revolving pleasures flow; 
In books and love, the mind one end pursues, 
And only change the expiring flame renews. 

5453 Gay : Epistles. To Bernard Lintot. Line 41. 
Nature, through all her works, in great degree, 
Borrows a blessing from variety. 

Music itself her needf ul aid requires 

To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires. 

5454 Churchill : Apology. Line 370. 
Variety's the very spice of life, 

That gives it all its flavor. 

5455 Cowper : Task. Bk. ii. Line 606. 



608 VARIETY— VENICE. 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variet} r . 

5456 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Now, by two-headed Janus, 

Nature hath f ram'd strange fellows in her time : 

Some that will evermore peep through their eyes, 

And laugh, like parrots, at a bagpiper; 

And other of such vinegar aspect, 

That they'll not show their teeth iu way of smile, 

Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 

5457 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. } 

VENGEANCE. 

I shall see 
The winged vengeance overtake such children. 

5458 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iii. Sc. f. 
In high vengeance there is noble scorn. 

5459 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. Iv. 

VENICE. 
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, 
A palace and a prison on each hand : 
I saw from out the wave her structures rise 
As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : 
A thousand years their cloudy wings expand 
Around me, and a dying glory smiles 
O'er the far times, when many a subject land 
Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, 
Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles. 

5460 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 1. 
In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, 

And silent rows the songless gondolier ; 
Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, 
And music meets not always now the ear : 
Those days are gone, but Beauty still is here. 
States fall, arts fade, but Nature doth not die, 
Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, 
The pleasant place of all festivit} r , 
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy ! 

5461 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 3. 
I loved her from my boyhood ; she to me 

Was as a fairy city of the heart, 

Rising like water-columns from the sea, 

Of joy the sojourn, and of wealth the mart; 

And Otway, Eadcliffe, Schiller, Shakespeare's art, 

Had stamp'd her image in me. 

5462 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 18. 



l^EXICE — VERB OS IT Y. 609 

It must not be ; there is no power in Venice 

Can alter a decree established : 

'Twill be recorded for a precedent ; 

And many an error, by the same example, 

TTill rush into the state. 

5463 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
VENISON — sec Eating-. 

Thanks, my lord, for j r our venison, for finer or fatter 
Ne'er ranged in a forest, or smoked in a platter ; 
The hannch was a picture for painters to study, 
The fat was so white, aucl the lean was so ruddy. 

5464 Goldsmith : Haunch of Venison. Line 1. 

VENTURING — see Ambition, Danger, Daring. 

Things out of hope are compass'cl oft with venturing. 

5465 Shaks. : Venus and A. Line 567 „ 

VENUS— see Love. 

Creator Venus, genial power of love, 
The bliss of men below, and gods above ! 
Beneath the sliding sun thou ruuu'st thy race, 
Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place ; 
For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear, 
Thy month reveals the spring, and opens all the year; 
Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly, 
Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky, 
And birds to lays of love their tuneful notes apply ; 
For thee the lion loathes the taste of blood. 

5466 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 1405 

O Venus, hail! all hail, immortal Queen! 

Thou reign'st unbounded o'er the human scene, 

Where the bright Thames shines forth in azure pride, 

To where the Ganges rolls its foamy tide, 

Where the redundant Nile expands his course, 

Or Niagara throws her headlong force; 

Still from the east to west, from pole to pole, 

Thou e'er shalt rule great Sovereign of the whole. 

5467 Bohn: Ms, 

VERBOSITY — see Poetry, Poets. 

Of little use, the man you may suppose, 
Who says in verse what others say in prose ; 
Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, 
And (though no soldier) useful to the state. 
What will a child learn sooner than a song? 
What better teach a foreigner the tongue? 
What's long or short, each accent where to place? 
And speak in public with some sort of grace? 

5468 Pope : Satire v. Line 201. 



610 VERBOSITY— VICE. 

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; 
All at her work the village maiden sings ; 
Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around, 
Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. 

5-469 Gifford: Contemplation. 

I was a poet too ; but modern taste 
Is so refined and delicate and chaste, 
That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, 
Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. 
Thus, all success depending on an ear, 
And thinking I might purchase it too dear, 
If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, 
And truth cut short to make a period round, 
I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse 
Than caper in the morris-dance of verse. 

5470 Covjper: Table Talk. Liue 511. 

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the 
staple of his argument. 

5471 Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act v. Sc. 1. 

\TICE — see Crime, Sin, Usefulness. 
There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 

5472 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. 

5473 Shaks. : Pericles. Act i. Sc. 1. 
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 

Make instruments to plague us. 

5474 Shaks. : King Lear. Act v. Sc. 3. 
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; 

And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. + 

5475 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

O, what a mansion have those vices got 
Which for their habitation chose out thee, 
Where beauty's veil doth cover every blot, 
And all things turn to fair that eyes can see ! 

5476 Shaks. : Sonnet xcv. 

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, 
And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. 

5477 Milton: Comus. Line 760. 
Xo penance can absolve our guilty fame ; 

Nor tears, that wash out sin, can wash out shame. 

5478 Prior: Henry and Emma. Line 312. 
Count all th' advantage prosp'rous vice attains, 

'Tis but what virtue flies from, and disdains. 

5479 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 89 



VICE— VICTORY. 611 

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, 
As to be hated needs but to be seen ; 
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, 
We first endure, theu pity, then embrace. 

5480 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 217. 
When to mischief mortals bend their will, 

How soon they find fit instruments of ill ! 

5481 Pope : R. of Lock. Canto iii. Line 125. 
When men of infamy to grandeur soar, 

They light a torch to show their shame the more, 
Those governments which curb not evils, cause ! 
And a rich knave's a libel on our laws. 

5482 Young: Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 149. 
Ah, Vice ! how soft are thy voluptuous ways ! 

While boyish blood is mautling, who can 'scape 
The fascination of thy magic saze? 

5483 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 65. 

VICE-CHANCELLORS. 

Vice-Chancellors, whose knowledge is but small 
And Chancellors, who nothing know at all: 
Ill-brook'd the generous spirit in those days 
When learning was the certain road to praise. 

5484 Churchill : Author. Line 25. 

VICISSITUDE — see Misfortune. 

But yesterday the word of Csesar might 

Have stood against the world ; now Ties he there, 

And none so poor to do him reverence. 

5435 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

VICTORIA — see Royalty. 

Broad based upon her people's will, 

And compassed by the inviolate sea. 

5486 Tennyson : To the Queen. 

VICTORY — see Battle, War. 
0, such a day. 
So fought, so follow'd, and so fairly won, 
Came not, till now, to dignify the times, 
Since Caesar's fortunes. 

5487 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, 

And we are grae'd with wreaths of victory. 

5488 Shaks. : 3 Henry Yl. Act v. Sc. 3. 
There is a tear for all that die, 

A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; 
But nations swell the funeral cry, 
And Triumph weeps above the brave. 

5489 Byron : Death of Sir Peter Parker. 



612 VILLAGER— VILLAINY, 

VILLAGER, VILLAGES. 

The villager, born humbly and bred hard, 
Content his wealth, and poverty his guard, 
In action simply just, in conscience clear, 
By guilt untainted, undisturircl by fear, 
His means but scanty, aud his wants but few, 
Labor his business, and his pleasure too, 
Enjoys more comforts in a single hour 
Than ages give the wretch condemn' d to power. 

5490 Churchill : Gotham. Bk. iii. Line 117. 
He that deems his leisure well bestow'd 

In contemplation of a turnpike road, 

Is occupied as well, employs his hours 

As wisely, and as much improves his powers, 

As he that slumbers in pavilions graced 

With all the charms of an accomplish'd taste. 

5491 Cowper : Retirement. Line 505. 
Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, 

That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets, 
Tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze 
With all a July suu's collected rays, 
Delight the citizen, who gasping there, 
Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air. 

sweet retirement, who would balk the thought 
That could afford retirement, or could not? 

'Tis such an easy walk, so smooth and straight, — 

The second milestone fronts the garden gate ; 

A step if fair, and if a shower approach 

You find safe shelter in the next stage-coach, 

There prisou'd in a parlor snug and small, 

Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall, 

The man of business and his friends compress'd, 

Forget their labors, and yet find no rest ; 

But still 'tis rural, — trees are to be seen 

From every window, and the fields are green. 

5492 Cowper : Retirement. Line 481. 

VILLAINY. 
Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; 
That when I note another man like him 

1 may avoid him. 

5493 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The multiplying villainies of nature 

Do swarm upon him. 

5494 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 1. 
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, 

Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame. 

5495 Shaks. : King John. Act iv. Sc. 2, 



VILLAINY— VIRTUE. 613 

Things ill-got had ever bad success. 
549G Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

VIOLET — sec Flowers. 
What thought is folded iu thy leaves ! 
"What tender thought, what speechless pain ! 
I hold thy faded lips to miue, 
Thou darling of the April rain. 

5497 T. B. Aldrich : The Faded Violet, 

VIRGINS —see Celibacy, Nun. 
What tender maid but must a victim fall 
To one man's treat, but for another's ball? 
When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand, 
If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand? 
With varying vanities, from every part, 
They shift the moving toyshop of their heart ; 
Where wigs with wigs, sword-knots with sword-knots strive, 
Beaux banish beaux, and coaches coaches drive. 

5498 Pope: R. of the Lock. Canto i. Line 95. 

VIRTUE — see Conduct, Modesty, Puritans, Usefulness, 
Vice. 

I held it ever, 
Virtue and knowledge were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches ; careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend ; 
But immortality attends the former, 
Making a man a god. 

5499 Shaks. : Pericles. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do ; 
Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike 
As if we had them not. 

5500 Shaks. : M. for M. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, 
Do breed love's settled passions in my heart. 

5501 Shaks. : 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 5. 

Til leave my son my virtuous deeds behind ; 
And would my father had left me no more ! 
For all the rest is held at such a rate, 
As brings a thousandfold more care to keep, 
Than in possession any jot of pleasure. 

5502 . Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
We write in water. 

5503 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. 



614 VIRTUE. 

Assume a virtue, if you have it uot. 

5504 Skaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. { 

Virtue ma}- be assail'd, but never hurt; 
Surpris'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd ; 
Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, 
Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. 

5505 Milton : Comus. Line 589. 

Shall ignorance of good and ill 
Dare to direct th' eternal will? 
Seek virtue; and, of that possess'd, 
To Providence resign the rest. 

5506 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 39. 

Why to true merit should they have regard? 
They know that virtue is its own reward. 

5507 Gay : Epistles. To Methuen. Line 41. 

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor, 
Content to dwell in decencies for ever. 

5508 Tope: Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 163. 

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, 
Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree. 

5509 Tope : Essay on Man. Epis. ii. Line 231 

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 
'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdaius : 
And grant the bad what happiness they would, 
One they must want — which is, to pass for good. 

5510 Tope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 89. 

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, 
What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? 

5511 Tope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 149. 

What nothing earthly gives, or cau destroy — 

The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy, — 

Is virtue's prize; a better would you fix? 

Then give humility a coach and six, 

Justice a conqueror's sword, or truth a gown, 

Or public spirit, its great cure, a crown. 

5512 Tope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 167. 

Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) 
Virtue alone is happiness below. 

5513 Tope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 309. 

Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 
'Tis just alike to Virtue and to me ; 
Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, 
She's still the same belov'd contented thing. 

5514 Tope : Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue i. Line 137. 



VIRTUE 615 

What, what is virtue, but repose of mind, 
A pure ethereal calm, that knows no storm ; 
Above the reach of wild Ambition's wind, 
Above those passions that this world deform, 
And torture man. 

5515 Thomson: Castle of Indolence. Canto i. St. 16, 

Ah ! whither now are fled 
Those dreams of greatness? those unsolid hopes 
Of happiness? those longings after fame? 
Those restless cares? those busy bustling days? 
Those gay-spent, festive nights? those veering thoughts, 
Lost between good and ill, that shared thy life? 
All now are vanished ! Virtue sole survives, 
Immortal never-failing friend of man. 
His guide to happiness on high. 

5516 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 1023 

Believe the muse, the wintry blast of death 
Kills not the buds of virtue ; no, they spread, 
Beneath the heavenly beams of brighter suns, 
Thro' endless ages, into higher powers. 

5517 Thomson : Seasons. Summer. Line 581. 

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; 
'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. 

5518 Collins : Oriental Eclogues. Selim. Line 5. 

The virtuous to those mansions go 
Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, 
Where, leading up a jocund band, 
Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, 
Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, 
Pipes softest music through the vales, 
And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, 
With velvet carpet spread the ground; 
With livelier blush where roses bloom, 
And every shrub expires perfume. 

5519 Churchill : Ghost. Bk. ii. Line 401. 

Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, 
Which takes not solid virtue for its ground. 

5220 Churchill: Gotham. Bk. iii. Line 207. 

Whatever farce the boastful hero plays, 
Virtue alone has majesty iu death. 

5521 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 651- 

Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures, 
That life is long, which answers life's great end. 
The time that bears no fruit, deserves no name ; 
The man of wisdom is the man of vears. 

5522 Young : Night TJwughts. Night v. Line 772. 



616 VIRTUE- VOICE. 

Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; 

Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fali. 

5523 Young: Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 312, 
Virtue, our present peace, our future prize, 

Man's unpreearious, natural estate, 
Improvable at will, in virtue lies ; 
Its tenure sure; its income is diviue. 

5524 Young : Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 470. 
Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, 

Is the best gift of heaven ; a happiness 
That, even above the smiles and frowns of fate, 
Exalts great Nature's favorites ; a wealth 
That ne'er encumbers, nor can be transferr'd. 

5525 Armstrong : A. of Preserving Health. Bk. iv. Line 284. 
Virtue and sense are one ; aud trust me still 

A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. 

Virtue (for mere good nature is a fool) 

Is sense and spirit with humanity. 

'Tis sometimes angry, and its frown confounds ; 

'Tis even vindictive, but in vengeance just, 

Knaves fain would laugh at it; some great ones dare; 

But at his heart the most undaunted son 

Of Fortune dreads its name and awful charms. 

5526 Armstrong : A. of Preserving Health. Bk. iv. Line 2G5. 
The only amaranthine flower on earth 

Is virtue, the only lasting treasure, truth. 

5527 Cowper : Task. Bk. iii. Line 266. 
In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, 

Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar! 

5528 Byron : Don Juan. Canto i. St. 17. 

VIXEN. jjoubt not her care should be 
To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd stool, 
And paint your face, and use you like a fool. 

5529 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act i. Sc. 1. 

VOCATION — see Labor, Work. 
'Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation. 

5530 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act i. Sc. 2. 

VOICE — see Eloquence, Singing-. 

Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman. 

5531 Shaks. : King Lear. Act v. Sc. 3. 
Her voice changed like a bird's : 

There grew more of the music and less of the words. 

5532 Robert Browning : Flight of the Duchess. St. 15. 



VOICE — WAITERS. 6 1 7 

His voice no touch of harmony admits, 
Irregularly deep, aud shrill by fits ; 
The two extremes appear like man and wife, 
Coupled together for the sake of strife. 

5533 Churchill : Bosciad. Line 1003. 

VOLCANO. 

The dread volcano ministers to good : 
j Its smother'd flames might undermine the world : 
Loud JEtnas fulminate in love to man. 

5534 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 489. 

VOWELS. 
We are little airy creatures, 
All of different voice and features ; 
One of us in glass is set, 
One of us you'll find in jet, 
T'other you may see in tin, 
And the fourth a box within. 
If the fifth you should pursue, 
It can never fly from you. 

5535 Swift : On the Vowels, 

VOWS — see Oaths. 
Unheedf ul vows may heedf ully be broken. 

5536 Shales. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 6. 

No man takes or keeps a vow, 

But just as he sees others do ; 

Nor are they 'blig'd to be so brittle 

As not to yield and bow a little : 

For as best temper'd blades are found, 

Before they break, to bend quite round; 

So truest oaths are still more tough, 

And tho' they bow, are breaking proof. 

5537 Butler : Hudibras' Epis. to his Lady. Line 75 



W. 

WAITERS. 
Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion. 

5538 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
You loggerheaded and unpolished grooms ! 

What, no attendance? no regard? no duty? 
Where is the foolish knave I sent before? 

5539 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act iv Sc. 1- 



618 WALDENSES — WANT. 

WALDENSES. 
Aveuge, O Lord! thy slaughtered saints, whose bones 
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; 
Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, 
When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, 
Forget not. 

5540 Milton : Sonnet xviiL 

WALKING-STICKS. 
Let beaux their canes with amber tipt produce ; 
Be theirs for empty show, but thine for use. 

Imprudent men Heaven's choicest gifts profane ; 
Thus some beneath their arm support the cane, 
The dirty point oft checks the careless pace, 
And miry spots thy clean cravat disgrace. 
Oh ! may I never such misfortune meet ! 
May no such vicious walkers crowd the street ! 

5541 Gay : Trivia. Bk. i. Line 67. 

WALL-FLOWER — see Flowers. 
The wall-flower ! the wall-flower ! 
How beautiful it blooms ! 
It gleams above the ruin'd tower, 
Like sunlight over tombs ; 
It sheds a halo of repose 
Around the wrecks of time ; — 
To beauty give the flaunting rose — 
The wall-flower is sublime. 

5542 Moir: The Wall-Flower. 

WANDERING. 
But me, not destin'd such delights to share, 
My prime of life in wandering spent and care : 
Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue 
Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; 
That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, 
Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; 
My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, 
And find no spot of all the world my own. 

5543 Goldsmith : Traveller. Line 23. 

WANT — see Compassion, Distress, Poverty. 
The grave Sir Gilbert holds it for a rule, 
That ev'ry man in want is knave or fool. 
" God cannot love (says Blunt, with tearless eyes) 
The wretch he starves " — and piously denies : 
But the good bishop, with a meeker air, 
Admits and leaves them Providence's care. 

5544 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 101. 



WAR. 619 

WAR — see Battle, Discord, Duelling, Fighting", Murder, 
Peace, Soldiers, Victory, Warrior. 

Shall we upon the footing of our land 
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise, 
Insinuation, parley, and base truce, 
To arms invasive? 

5545 Shaks. : King John. Act v. Sc. 1. 
The arms are fair, 

When the intent for bearing them is just. 

5546 Shaks. : 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Now all the youth of England are on Are, 

And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies ; 
Now thrive the armorers, and honor's thought 
Keigns solely in the breast of every man. 

5547 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Chorus. 
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; 

Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 
In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man 
As modest stillness and humility : 
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, 
Then imitate the action of the tiger : 
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. 

5548 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Dying like men, though buried in your dunghills, 

They shall be fam'd ; for there the sun shall greet them, 
And draw their honors reeking up to heaven; 
Leaving their earthly parts to choke your clime. 

5549 Shaks. : Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3- 
To my shame, I see 

The imminent death of twenty thousand men, 
That, for a fantasy and trick of fame, 
Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot 
Whereon the numbers canuot try the cause, 
Which is not tomb enough, and continent, 
To hide the slain. 

5550 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act-iv. Sc. 4. 
O war, thou son of hell, 

Whom angry heav'ns do make their minister, 
Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part 
Hot coals of vengeance ! — Let no soldier fly ; 
He that is truly dedicate to war 
Hath no self-love : nor he that loves himself. 

5551 Shaks. : 2 Henry VL Act v. Sc. 2. 
Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France ; 

For ere thou can'st report I will be there, 
The thunder of my cannon shall be heard ; 
So hence ! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath. 

5552 Shaks. : King John. Act i. Sc. I. 



620 WAR. 

Thus far into the bowels of the laud 
Have we march'd on without impediment. 

5553 Shaks. : Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, 

The name of valor. 

5554 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Cry i4 Havock," and let slip the dogs of war. 

5555 Shaks. : Jul. Caesar. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Tell me, he that knows, 

Why such daily cast of brazen cannon, 

And foreign mart for implements of war : 

Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task 

Does not divide the Sunday from the week : 

What might be toward, that this sweaty haste 

Doth make the night joint-laborer with the day; 

Who is't that can inform me? 

5556 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1- 
Shall we go throw away our coats of steel, 

And wrap our bodies in black mourning gowns, 
Xumb'ring our Ave Marias with our beads? 
Or shall we on the helmets of our foes 
Tell our devotion with revengeful arms? 

5557 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Theirs not to make reply, 

Theirs not to reason why, 
Theirs but to do and die. 

5558 Tennyson: Charge of the Light Brigade. 
Cannon to right of them, 

Cannon to left of them, 
Cannon in front of them. 

5559 Tennyson : Charge of the Light Brigade. 
Bloody wars at first began, 

The artificial plague of man. 
That from his own invention rise, 
To scourge his own iniquities ; 
That if the heavens should chance to spare 
- Supplies of constant poison'd air, 
They might not, with unfit delay, 
For lingering destruction stay ; 
Nor seek recruits of death so far, 
But plague themselves with blood and war. 

5560 Butler : Sat. Upon the Weakness and Misery of Man. 
War. he sung, is toil and trouble; [Line 105. 
Honor, but an empty bubble ; 

Never ending, still beginning, 
Fighting still, and still destroying. 

5561 Dryden : Alex. Feast. Line 99 



WAR. 621 

War ! that in a moment 

Lay'st waste the noblest part of the creation, 
The boast and masterpiece of the great Maker, 
That wears in vain th' impression of his image, 
Unprivileged from thee ! 

5562 Bov.e : Tamerlane. Act i. Sc. I. 

Death is the universal salt of states ; 

Blood is the base of all things — law and war. 

5563 Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Country Town. 
My voice is still for war. 

Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate 
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death? 

5564 Addison: Goto. Act ii. Sc. L 

Intestine war no more our passions wage, 
And giddy factions bear away their rage. 

5565 Pope : Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. St. 2. 

Cease to consult, the time for action calls, 
War, horrid war, approaches to your walls ! 

5566 Pope : Iliad. Bk. ii. Line 966- 
Ez fer war, I call it murder, — 

There you hev it plain an' flat; 
I don't want to go no f urder 
Than my Testyment fer that. 

5567 " James Bussell Lowell : Biglow Papers. No. 1. 

One to destroy, is murder by the law. 
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; 
To murder thousands takes a specious name, 
War's glorious art. and gives immortal fame. 

5568 Young : Love of Fame. Satire vii. Line 55. 

And when the fight becomes a chase, 
Those win the day that win the race; 
And that which would not pass in fights, 
Has done the feat with easv flights. 

5569 Butler: Hudioras". Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 291. 

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, 
Kings would not play at. 

5570 Oowper: Task. Bk. v. Line 186. 
All was prepared — the fire, the sword, the men 

To wield them in their terrible array. 

The army, like a lion from his den. 

March'd forth with nerves and sinews bent to slay — 

A human Hydra, issuing from its fen 

To breathe destruction on its winding way. 

Whose heads were heroes, which cut off in vain. 

Immediately in others grew again. 

5571 Byron: Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 2. 



622 WAR. 

Three hundred cannon threw up their emetic, 
And thirty thousand muskets flung their pills 
Like hail, to make a bloody diuretic ; 
Mortality ! thou hast thy monthly bills ! 
Thy plagues, thy famines, thy physicians, yet tick, 
Like the death-watch, within our ears the ills 
Past, present, and to come ; but all may yield 
To the true portrait of one battle-field. 

5572 Byron : Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 12. 
All that the mind would shrink from, of excesses; 

All that the body perpetrates, of bad ; 

All that we read, hear, dream, of man's distresses ; 

All that the devil would do, if run stark mad; 

All that defies the worst which pen expresses 

All by which hell is peopled, or is sad 

As hell — mere mortals who their power abuse — 

Was here (as heretofore and since) let loose. 

5573 Byron : Bon Juan. Canto viii. St. 123. 
War's a brain-spattering, windpipe-slitting art, 

Unless her cause by right be sanctified. 

5574 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ix. St. 4 

By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see 

(For one who hath no friend, no brother there) 

Their rival scarfs of mix'cl embroidery, 

Their various arms that glitter in the air ! 

What gallant war-hounds rouse them from their lair, 

And gnash their fangs, loud yelling for the prey! 

All join the chase, but few the triumph share; 

The grave shall bear the chiefest prize away, 

And havoc scarce for joy can number their array. 

5575 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 40. 

War, war is still the cry, " War even to the knife ! " 

5576 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 86. 

What boots the oft-repeated tale of strife, 
The feast of vultures, and the waste of life? 
The varying fortune of each separate field, 
The fierce that vanquish, and the faint that yield? 
The smoking ruin and the crumbled wall? 
In this the struggle was the same with all. 

5577 Byron : Lara. Canto ii. St. 10. 

The death-shot hissing from afar — 

The shock — the shout — the groan of war — 

Reverberate along that vale, 

More suited to the shepherd's tale : 

Though few the numbers — theirs the strife, 

That neither spares, nor speaks for life. 

5578 Byron : Giaour. Line 641. 



WAR. 623 

Thus, as the stream and ocean greet, 
With waves that madden as they meet — 
Thus join the bands whom mutual wrong, 
And fate and fury drive along. 

5579 Byron : Giaour. Line 634. 
I own my natural weakuess ; I have not 

Yet learn' d to think of indiscriminate murder 
Without some sense of shuddering ; and the sight 
Of blood, which spouts through hoary scalps, is not, 
To me, a thing of triumph, nor the death 
Of men surprised, a glory. 

5580 Byron : Mar. Faliero. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
With common men 

There needs too oft the show of war to keep 
The substance of sweet peace, and for a king, 
'Tis sometimes better to be fear'd than lov'd. 

5581 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2. 
War is honorable 

In those who do their native rights maintain ; 
In those whose swords an iron barrier are 
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak ; • 
But is, in those who draw th' offensive blade 
For added power or gain, sordid and despicable 
As meanest office of the worldly churl. 

5582 Joanna Baillie : Ethwald. Pt. ii. Act i. Sc. 3. 
The crystal-pointed tents, from hill to hill, 

From vale to vale — until 

The heavens on endless peaks their curtain lay. 

A magical city ! spread to-night 

On hills which slope within our sight. 

To-morrow, as at the waving of a wand, 

Tents, guidons, bannerols are moved afar, — 

Bising elsewhere, as rises a morning-star 

Or the dream of Aladdin's palace in fairy-land. 

5583 E. C. Stedman : Alice of Monmouth. Pt. xi. St. 1. 
Dreary East winds howling o'er us, 

Clay-lands knee-deep spread before us ; 

Mire and ice and snow and sleet ; 

Aching backs and frozen feet; 

Knees which reel as marches quicken, 

Banks which thin as corpses thicken ; 

While with carrion birds we eat, 

Calling puddle-water sweet, 

As we pledge the health of our general, who fares as rough 

as we : 
What can daunt us, what can turn us, led to death by such 

as he? 

5584 Charles Kingsley : A March. 



G24 WAR — WATER. 

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. 

5585 Nathaniel Lee : Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous, 
Sweet is the smell of powder. 

5586 Longfellow: Courtship of Miles Standish. Pt. iv. 

[Line 135. 
WARNING — see Caution. 

Men that stumble at the threshold, 

Are well foretold that danger lurks within. 

5587 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell ; 

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 

5588 Shaks. : King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. 

WARRIOR — see Soldier. 
Not a drum w T as heard, not a funeral note, 
As his corse to the ramparts we hurried. 

5589 Chas. Wolfe : Burial of Sir John Moore. 
The painful warrior, f amoused for fight, 

After a thousand victories once foiled, 
Is from the* books of honor razed quite, 
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. 

5590 Shaks. : Sonnet xxv. 

WASHINGTON. 

Washington's a watchword such as ne'er 
Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. 

5591 Byron : Age of Bronze. St. 5. 

WATER — see Thirst. 

Till taught by pain, 
Men really know not what good water's worth : 
If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, 
Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth, 
Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, 
You'd wish yourself where truth is — in a well. 

5592 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 84. 
Wine, wine, xhy power and praise 

Have ever been echoed in minstrel lays ; 
But water, I deem, hath a mightier claim 
To fill up a niche in the temple of fame. 

Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell 
What treasures exist in the cold deep well ; 
Sink in despair on the red, parched earth, 
And then ye may reckon what water is worth. 

5593 Eliza Cook: Water. 
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 

5594 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



WA TER — ) I EALTH. G2 5 

More water glideth by the rail] 
Than wots the miller of; and easy it is 
Of a cut loaf to steal a shive. 

5595 Shaks. : Titus And. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

WAVES — see Ocean. 
Children are we 
Of the restless sea, 

Swelling in anger or sparkling in glee ; 
We follow our race, 
In shifting chase, 
Over the boundless ocean-space ! 
Who hath beheld where the race begun? 
Who shall behold it run? 
Who shall behold it run? 

5596 Bayard Taylor : The Waves. 
The wares are full of whispers wild and sweet ; 

They call to me, — incessantly they beat 
Along the boat from stern to curved prow. 

5597 Celia Thaxter: Off Shore. St. 8. 
Waves which vainly seek 

To utter all the storj' of the sea' 
And die in music with the tale untold. 
5593 Anna Katharine Green : Paul Isnam. 

WEAKNESS — see Tears. 
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, 
Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms ! 

5599 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Ye gods, it doth amaze me, 

A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world, 
And bear the palm alone. 

5600 Shaks. : Jul. Ccesar. Act i. Sc. 2. 
If weakness may excuse, 

What murderer, what traitor, parricide, 
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? 
All wickedness is weakness : that plea, therefore, 
With God or man will gain thee no remission. 

5601 Milton: Sam. Agonistes. Line 831. 

WEALTH — see Gold, Income, Independence, Money, 
Riches. 

If thou art rich, thou art poor: 
For, like an ass, whose back witih ingots bows, 
Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey. 
And death unloads thee. 

5602 Shaks. : 31. for 31. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



626 WEALTH. 

Yet in thy thriving still misdoubt some evil ; 
Lest gaining gain on thee, and make thee dim 
To all things else. Wealth is the conjurer's devil; 
Whom when he thinks he hath, the devil hath him. 
Gold thou may'st safely touch ; but if it stick 
Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. 

5603 Herbert : Temple. Church Porch. St. 28. 

'Tis not those orient pearls, our teeth, 
That you are so transported with : 
But those we wear about our necks, 
Produce those amorous effects. 

5604 Butler : Hudibras. Lady's Answer. Line 6*5. 
We frequently misplace esteem, 

By judging men by what they seem, 

To birth, wealth, power, we should allow 

Precedence, and our lowest bow. 

5605 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 3. 

We know that wealth well understood, 
Hath frequent power of doing good ; 
Then fancy that the thing is done, 
As if the power and will were one ; 
Thus oft the cheated crowd adore 
The thriving knaves that keep them poor. 

5606 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 3. 

Can wealth give happiness? look round, and see 
What gay distress ! what splendid misery ! 
Whatever fortune lavishly can pour, 
The mind annihilates, and calls for more. 

5607 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 379. 

To purchase heaven, has gold the power? 
Can gold remove the mortal hour? 
In life, can love be bought with gold? 
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? 
No ; all that's worth a wish — a thought — 
Fair virtue gives unbrib'd, unbought ; 
Cease, then, on trash thy hopes to bind, 
Let nobler views engage thy mind. 

5608 Dr. Johnson : To a Friend. 

Perhaps he hath great projects in his mind, 
To build a college, or to found a race, 
An hospital, a church — and leave behind 
Some dome surmounted by his meagre face, 
Perhaps he fain would liberate mankind 
Even with the very ore which makes them base ; 
Perhaps he would be wealthiest of his nation, 
Or revel in the joys of calculation. 

5609 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xii. St. 10. 



WEAL TH — WEL COME. g 2 7 

Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffus'cl; 
As poison heals, in just proportion us'd ; 
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies, 
But well dispers'd, is iucense to the skies. 

5610 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 233. 
These grains of gold are not grains of wheat ! 

These bars of silver thou canst not eat; 
These jewels and pearls and precious stones 
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones, 
Nor keep the feet of death one hour 
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. 

5611 Longfellow: Tales of a Wayside Inn. Kambalu. 
"WEEDS — see Garden. 

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; 
Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, 
And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. 

5612 Shaks. : 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
/WELCOME — see Guests, Home, Hospitality, Meeting, Salu- 
tation. 

Sir, you are very welcome to our house. 
It must appear in other ways than words, 
Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. 

5613 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1. 
A general welcome from his grace 

Salutes ye all : This night he dedicates 

To fair content, and you : none here, he hopes, 

In all this noble bevy, has brought with her 

One care abroad : he would have all as merry 

As first-good company, good wine, good welcome 

Can make good people. 

5614 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 4. 
A hundred thousand welcomes : I could weep. 

And I could laugh ; I am light and heavy : Welcome. 

5615 Shaks. : Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
To say you are welcome, were superfluous. 

5616 Shaks. : Pericles. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
I am glad to see you well ; 

Horatio, — or I do forget myself. 

5617 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Welcome ever smiles, 

And Farewell goes out sighing. 

5618 Shaks'.: Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
When Hamilton appears, then dawns the day, 

And when she disappears, begins the night. 

5619 Lansdowne : To the Duchess. 
And kind the voice and glad the eyes 

That welcome my return at night. 

5620 William Cullen Bryant : Hunter of the Prairies. 



62S WELCOME — WIDO WS. 

The atmosphere 
Breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers 
Seem full of welcomes. 

5621 Longfellow : Masque of Pandora. Pt. v. 
I hope, as no unwelcome guest, 

At your warm lireside, when the lamps are lighted, 
To have my place reserved among the rest, 
Nor stand as one uusought and uninvited ! 

5622 Longfellow : The Seaside and the Fireside. Dedication. 
Some hae meat that cauna eat; [St. 11. 
And some would eat that want it; 

But we hae meat, and we can eat, 
Sae let the Lord be thankit. 

5623 Bums : Versicles. Graces before Meat. 
WHIGS — see Politicians. 

Nought's permanent among the human race, 
Except the Whigs not getting into place. 

5624 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xi. St. 82. 
But bees, on flowers alighting, cease their hum, 

So, settling upon places, Whigs grow dumb. 

5625 Moore : Corruption. Line 161. 
WHITTINGTON. 

Be it fable or truth, about Whittington's youth, 
Which the tale of the magical ding-dong imparts ; 
Yet the story that tells of the boy and the bells, 
Has a purpose and meaning for many sad hearts. 
That boy sat him down, and look'd back on the town, 
Where merchants, and honors, and money were rife; 
With his wallet and stick, little fortuneless Dick 
Was desponding, till fairy chimes gave him new life, 



Saying, "Turn again, Whittington 



And up rose the boy, with the impulse of joy, 

And a vision that saw not the dust at his feet ; 

And retracing his road, he was found, with his load, 

In the city that gave him its loftiest seat. 

Hope, patience, and will, made him bravely fulfil 

What the eloquent tone of the chimes had foretold ; 

And that echo still came, breathing light on his name, 

When by chance his hard fortune seemed rayless and cold, 

Saying " Turn again, Whittington ! " 

5626 Eliza Cook : Turn Again, Whittington 

WIDOWS. 
Why are those tears? why droops your head 
Is then your other husband dead? 
Or does a worse disgrace betide? 
Hath no one since his death applied? 

5627 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 37 



WID WS — WIND. 629 

May widows wed as often as the}' can. 
And ever for the better change their man ; 
And some devouring plague pursue their lives, 
Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. 

5628 Dryden : Wife of Bath. Line 543. 
Thus, day by day, and month by month, we pass'd ; 

It pleas'd the Lord to take my spouse at last. 
I tore my gown, I soil'd my locks with dust. 
And beat my breasts — as wretched widows must : 
Before my face my handkerchief I spread, 
To hide the flood of tears I did — not shed. 

5629 Pope: Wife of Bath. Line 297. 

"WILFULNESS. 

Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed ; 
For what I will, I will, and there au end. 

5630 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V Act i. Sc. 3. 
To wilful men, 

The injuries, that they themselves procure 
Must be their schoolmasters. 

5631 Shaks. : King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
The star of the unconquered will. 

5632 Longfellow: Light of Stars. 

WILLOW — see Trees. 

Tree of the gloom, o'erhangiug the tomb, 
Thou seem'st to love the churchyard sod ; 
Thou ever art found on the charnel ground, 
Where the laughing and happy have rarely trod. 
When thy branches trail to the wintry gale, 
Thy wailing is sad to the hearts of men ; 
When the world is bright in a summer's light, 
'Tis only the wretched that love thee then. 
The golden moth aud the shiniug bee 
Will seldom rest on the Willow-tree. 

5633 Eliza Cook: Willow-Tree. 
WIND — see Hurricane. Storm, Tempest. 

Except wind stands as never it stood, 
It is an ill wind turns none to good. 

5634 Tusser : Moral Reflection on the Wind. 
What wind blew you hither, Pistol? 

Not the ill wind which blows none to good. 

5635 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 3. 
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. 

5636 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI Act ii. Sc. 5. 
As winds come lightly whispering from the west, 
Kissing, not ruffling the blue deep's serene. 

5637 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 70 



630 WIND. 

The morning wind the mead hath kissed ; 

It leads in narrow lines 

The shadows of the silver mist, 

To pause among the pines. 

5638 Buskin : The Battle of Montenotte. St. 5. 

i" loved the Wind. 
Whether it kissed my hair and pallid brow ; 
Whether with sweets my sense it fed, as now; 
Whether it blew across the scudding maiu ; 
Whether it shrieked above a stretch of plain ; 
Whether, on autumn clays, in solemn woods, 
And barren solitudes, 

Along the waste it whirled the withered leaves ; 
Whether it hummed around my cottage eaves, 
And shook the rattliug doors, 
And died with long-drawn sighs, on hleak and dreary 

moors ; 
Whether in winter, when its trump did blow 
Through desolate gorges dirges of despair, 
It drove the snow-flakes slantly down the air, 
And piled the drifts of snow; 
Or whether it breathed soft in vernal hours, 
And filled the trees with sap, and filled the grass with 

flowers. 

5639 B. H. Stoddard : Carmen Natures Triumphale. 

I hear the wind among the trees 
Playing celestial symphonies; 
I see the branches downward bent 
Like ke} 7 s of some great instrument. 

5640 Longfellow : A Day of Sunshine. 

The wind is rising ; it seizes and shakes 
The doors and window-blinds, and makes 
Mysterious moanings in the halls ; 
The convent-chimneys seem almost 
The trumpets of some heavenly host, 
Setting its watch upon our walls ! 

5641 Longfellow : Christus. Abbot Joachim. 

A gentle wind of western birth, 
From some far summer sea, 
Wakes daisies in the wintry earth. 

5642 George Macdonald : Songs of The Spring Days. 

Boughs are daily rifled 
By the gusty thieves, 
And the book of Nature 
Getteth short of leaves. 

5643 Mood : The Seasons. 



WIND — WINDOWS. 631 

The wind breathes not, and the wave 
Walks softly as above a grave. 
56-14 Bailey : Festus. Sc. The Surface. 

A melancholy sound is in the air, 

A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail 

Arouud my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night. 

5645 William Cullen Bryant : A Bain Dream. 

Ye winds, ye unseen currents of the air, 

Softly ye played a few brief hours ago ; 

Ye bore the murmuring bee ; ye tossed the air 

O'er maiden cheeks, that took a fresher glow ; 

Ye rolled the round white cloud through depths of blue ; 

Ye shook from shaded flowers the lingering dew ; 

Before you the catalpa's blossoms flew, 

Light blossoms, dropping on the grass like snow. 

5646 William Cullen Bryant : The Winds. 

Do not the bright June roses blow- 
To meet thy kiss at morning hours? 

5647 William Cullen Bryant : The West Wind. 

I hear the howl of the wind that brings 
The long drear storm on its heavy wings. 

5648 William Cullen Bryant : Bispah. 

Full fast the leaves are dropping 
Before that wandering breath. 

5649 William Cullen Bryant : My Autumn Walk. 

The hushed winds their sabbath keep. 

5650 William Cullen Bryant : Summer Ramble. 
Is not thy home among the flowers? 

5651 William Cullen Bryant : The West Wind. 
The bitter-sweet, the haunting air 

Creepeth, bloweth everywhere ; 
It preys on all, all prey on it, 
Blooms in beauty, thinks in wit, 
Stings the strong with enterprise, 
Makes travellers long for Indian skies. 

5652 Emerson : May-day. Line 261. 

We wait for thy coming, sweet wind of the south ! 
For the touch of thy light wings, the kiss of thy mouth; 
For the yearly evangel thou bearest from God, 
Resurrection and life to the graves of the sod ! 

5653 Whittier: April. 

WINDOWS. 

Storied windows richly dight, 
Casting a dim religious light. 

5654 Milton: II Penseroso. Line 159. 



632 WINE. 

WINE — see Drinking-, Spirits. 

thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be 

known by, let us call thee devil. 
5855 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

What cannot wine perform? It brings to light 
The secret soul, it bids the coward fight : 
Gives being to our hopes, and from our hearts 
Drives the dull sorrow, and inspires new arts. 
Is there a wretch whom bumpers have not taught 
A flow of words, and loftiness of thought? 
Even in th' oppressive grasp of poverty 
It can enlarge, and bid the soul be free. 

5656 Francis's Horace. Epis. i. v. 

So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on 

The mountain's top, his lofty haven, 

And all the passengers he bore, 

Were on the new world set ashore, 

He made it next his chief design 

To plant, and propagate a vine, 

Which since has overwhelm'd and drown'd 

Ear greater numbers, on dry ground, 

Of wretched mankind, one by one, 

Than all the flood before had done. 

5657 Butler : Sat. upon Drunkenness. Line 105. 

Wine makes Love forget its care, 
And mirth exalts a feast. 

5658 Pamell : Anacreontic, "Gay Bacchus, etc." St. 2. 

Erom wine what sudden friendship springs ! 

5659 Gay : Fables. Pt. ii. Eable 6. 

1 would not always dread the bowl, 

Nor ev'ry trespass shun. The feverish strife 
Eous'd by the rare debauch subdues, expels 
The loit'ring crudities that burden life, 
And like a torrent, full and rapid, clears 
The obstructed tubes. 

5660 Armstrong : Art of Preserving Health. Bk. ii. Line 460. 

Oh, seldom may the fated hours return 

Of drinking deep ! I would not daily taste, 

Except when life declines, even sober cups 

Weak with'ring Age no rigid law forbids 

With frugal nectar smooth and slow, with balm, 

The sapless habit daily to bedew, 

A.nd give the hesitating wheels of life 

Gliblier to play. 

5661 Armstrong : Art of Preserving Health. Bk. ii. Line 482. 



WINE — WINTER. 633 

Few things surpass old wine ; and they may preach 
Who please — the more because they preach in vain — 
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, 
Sermons and soda-water the clay after. 

5662 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 178. 

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires 
The young, makes weariness forget his toil, 
And fear her danger : opens a new world 
When this, the present, palls. 

5663 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2. 

WINTER — see December, January, Seasons. 
When icicles hang h}' the wall,. 
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 
And Tom bears logs into the hall, 
And milk comes frozen home in pail, 
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, 
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 
To-who, 

Tu-wit, to-who, a merry note, 
While greasy Joan cloth keel the pot. 

5664 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. Song. 

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, 
Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, 
Vapors, and clouds, and storms. 

5665 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 1. 

Now, when the cheerless empire of the sky 
To Capricorn the Centaur Archer yields, 
And fierce Aquarius stains th' inverted year ; 
Hung o'er the farthest verge of heaven, the sun 
Scarce spreads o'er ether the dejected day; 
Faint are his gleams and ineffectual shoot 
His struggling rays, in horizontal lines, 
Through the thick air. 

5666 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 41. 

All nature feels the renovating force 
Of winter, only to the thoughtless eye 
In ruin seen. The frost-contracted glebe 
Draws in abundant vegetable soul, 
And gathers vigor for the coming year. 
A stronger glow sits on the lively cheek 
Of ruddy fire ; and luculent along 
The purer rivers flow : their sullen deeps, 
Transparent, open to the shepherd's gaze 
And murmur hoarser at the fixing frost. 

5667 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 704, 



634 WINTER. 

Miserable they ! 
"Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, 
Take their last look of the descending sun, 
While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, 
The long, long night, incumbent o'er their heads, 
Falls horrible. 

5668 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 920, 
Dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, 

And reigns tremendous o'er the conquer'd year. 
How dead the vegetable kingdom lies : 
How dumb the tuneful : Horror wide extends 
His desolate domain. 

5669 Thomson : Seasons. Winter. Line 1016. 
The ckty is ending, 

The night is descending ; . 
The marsh is frozen, 
The river dead. 

5670 Longfellow : An Afternoon in February. 
But Winter. has yet brighter scenes — he boasts 
Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows . 

Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods 

All flushed with many hues. Come when the rains 

Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, 

While the slant sun of February pours 

Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach! 

The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps, 

And the broad arching portals of the grove 

Welcome thy entering. 

5671 William Cullen Bryant : A Winter Piece. 
No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, 

But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 

5672 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 171. 
I crown thee king of intimate delights, 

Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, 
And all the comforts that the lowly roof 
Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours 
Of long, uninterrupted evening, know. 

5673 Covrper: Task. Bk. iv. Line 139. 

Winter ! ruler of the inverted year, 

Thy scatter'cl hair with sleet-like ashes fill'd, 
Thy breath congeal' d upon thy lips, thy cheeks 
Fring'd with a beard made white with other snows 
Than those of age ; thy forehead wrapt in clouds, 
A leafless branch thy sceptre, and thy throne 
A sliding car indebted to no wheels, 
But urged by storms along its slippery way ; 

1 love thee, all unlovely as thou seem'st, 
And dreaded as thou art. 

5674 Cowper : Task. Bk. iy. Line 12Q 



WINTER — WISDOM. 635 

When winter stern his gloomy front uprears, 

A sable void the barren earth appears : 

The meads no more their former verdure boast, 

Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; 

The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, 

And wildly murmur for the Spring's return; 

From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, 

Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, 

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, 

Mocks^the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies. 

5675 Crabbe : Inebriety. Line 9. 
Every winter, 

When the great sun has turned his face away, 

The earth goes down into the vale of grief. 

And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, 

Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay — 

Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. 

5676 Charles Kingsley : Saint's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

WISDOM — see Knowledge, Newton, Self-Knowledge. 
Wisdom and fortune combating together, 
If that the former dare but what it can, 
No chance may shake it. 

5677 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 1L 

Let time that makes you homely, make you sage, 
The sphere of wisdom is the sphere of age. 

567^- Parnell: Elegy. To an Old Beauty. Line 35 

All foreign wisdom doth amount to this, 
To take all that is given, whether wealth, 
Or love, or language ; nothing comes amiss : 
A good digestion turneth all to health. 

5679 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 6G. 

What is it to be wise? 
'Tis but to know how little can be known ; 
To see all others' faults, and feel your own. 

5680 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 260 

Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, 
And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive, — 
What is she, but the means of happiness? 
That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool. 

5681 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 500. 

The clouds may drop down titles and estates ; 
Wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought; 
Sought before all ; (but how unlike all else 
We seek on earth!) 'tis never sought in vain. 

5682 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 627 



636 WISDOM— WISHES. 

Wisdom, awful wisdom, which inspects, 
Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers, 
Seizes the right, and holds it to the last : 
How rare! In senates, synods, sought in vain; 
Or, if there found, 'tis sacred to the few. 

5683 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 1254 
Teach me my days to number, and apply 

My trembling heart to wisdom. 

5684 Young : Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 1314. 

Be wise with speed ; 
A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 

5685 Young : Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 281. 
Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart 

Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. 

5686 Cowper : Expostulation. Line 636. 
Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom 

utter. 
To what shall their rarity be likened? What price shall 

count their worth? 
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches, 
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. 

5687 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Words of Wisdom. 

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; 
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argu- 
ment. 

5688 Tupper : Proverbial Phil. Of Faith. 
The stream from Wisdom's well, 

Which God supplies, is inexhaustible. 

5689 Bayard Taylor : Wisdom of All 
The bearing and the training of a child 

Is woman's wisdom. 

5690 Tennyson : Princess. Pt. v. Line 470. 

WISHES — see Desire. 
Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 

5691 Shaks. : 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, 

Each gift of nature, and each grace of art. 

5692 Johnson : Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 15. 
Wishing, of all employments, is the worst. 
Philosophy's reverse ; and health's decay ! 

5693 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 71. 
Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines. 

5694 Young : Night Thoughts. Night v. Line 662. 

Every wish 
Is like a prayer, with God. 

5695 Mrs. Broioning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. ii. Line 1091 



WISHES — WIT. 637 

In idle wishes fools supinely stay ; 

Be there a will, — and wisdom finds a way. 

5696 Crabbe : Birth of Flattery. Line 194 
WIT — see Brevity, Jests, Knowledge, Learning, Nonsense, 

Vacuity. 
Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit ; 
By and by it will strike. 

5697 Shaks. : Tempest. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Leave this keen encounter of our wits, 

And fall somewhat into a slower method. 

5698 Shaks. : Richard III. Act i. Sc. 2. 
A hit, a very palpable hit. 

5699 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking 

Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer; 
Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking : 
But if thou want it, buy it not too dear. 
Many affecting wit beyond their power, 
Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. 

5700 Herbert : Temple. Church Torch. St. 41. 
By wit we search divine aspect above, 

By wit we learn what secrets science yields, 
By wit we speak, by wit the mind is rul'd, 
By wit we govern all our actions ; 
Wit is the loadstar of each human thought, 
Wit is the tool by which all things are wrought. 

5701 Robert Greene : From Alcida. Verses under a Carving 

[of Mercury. 
Wit, says an author that I do not know, 
Is like Time's scythe — cuts down both friend and foe ; — 
Beady each object, tiger-like, to leap on ! 
" Lord ! what a butcher this same wit ! " 

5702 Feter Pindar : Lyric Odes. Ode xvii. 1785. 
Great wits and valors, like great states, 

Do sometimes sink with their own weights. 

5703 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 269. 
We grant, altho' he had much wit, 

He was very shy of using it ; 
As being loth to wear it out, 
And therefore bore it not about ; 
Unless on holy-days, or so, 
As men their best apparel do. 

5704 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 45. 
Too much or too little wit 

Do only render th' owner fit 
For nothing, but to be undone 
Much easier than if they'd none. 

5705 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 567 



538 WIT. 

All wit does but divert men from the road 
In which things vulgarly are understood, 
And force Mistake and Ignorance to own 
A better sense than commonly is known. 

5706 Butler : Jlisc. Thoughts. Line 673. 

Great wits are sure to maduess near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 

5707 Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 163. 

Some, to whom Heaven in wit has been profuse, 
Want as much more to turn it to its use ; 
For wit and judgment often are at strife, 
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. 

5708 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i. Line 80. 

Some to conceit alone their taste confine, 
And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line ; 
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; 
One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit. 

5709 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 89. 

True wit is nature to advantage dress'cl, 
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd. 
Something whose truth, convinc'd at sight, we find, 
That gives us back the image of our mind. 

5710 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 97. 

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, 

Por works may have more wit than does 'em good, 

As bodies perish through excess of blood. 

5711 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 102. 

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 

5712 Pope : Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 90. 

The pride of nature would as soon admit 
Competitors in empire as in wit ; 
Onward they rush at fame's imperious call, 
And, less than greatest, would not be at all. 

5713 Churchill : Apology. Line 29. 

Against their wills, what numbers ruin shun. 
Purely through want of wit to be undone : 
Nature has shown, by making it so rare, 
That wit's a jew T el which we need not wear. 

5714 Young : Epis. to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 79. 

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume, 
The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. 
Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound ; 
When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam ; 
Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. 

5715 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viiL Line 1266. 



WIT — WITCHES. 639 

Wit, how delicious to man's dainty taste ! 
? Tis precious as the vehicle of sense; 
But, as its substitute, a dire disease ; 
Pernicious talent! flatter'd by the world, 
By the blind world, which thinks the talent rare. 
Wisdom is rare — wit abounds. 
Passion can give it ; sometimes wine inspires 
The lucky flash, and madness rarely fails. 

5716 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 1239. 
As in smooth oil, the razor best is whet, 

So wit is by politeness sharpest set; 

Their want of edge from their offence is seeu : 

Both pain us least when exquisitely keen. 

5717 Young: Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 119. 
What though wit tickles? tickling is unsafe, 

If still 'tis painful while it makes us laugh ; 
Who, for the poor renown of being smart, 
Would leave a sting within a brother's heart. 

5718 Young : Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 111 
He says but little, and that little said 

Owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead; 
His wit invites you by his looks to come, 
But when you knock, it never is at home. 

5719 Cowper : Conversation. Line 301 
A Christian's wit is inoffensive light, 

A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight; 
Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 
'Tis always active on the side of truth. 

5720 Cowper : Conversation. Line 599. 

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, 
Treat those of common parts with proud disdain; 
The powers that wisdom would, improving, hide, 
They blaze abroad, with inconsid'rate pride ; 
While yet but mere probationers for fame, 
They seize the honor they should then disclaim : 
Honor so hurried to the light must fade, 
The lasting laurels flourish in the shade. 

5721 Crabbe : Patron. Line 229 
True wit is like the brilliant stone, 

Dug from the Indian mine, 

Which boasts two different pow'rs in one, 

To cut as well as shine. 

5722 Notes and Queries. Aug. 11th, 1866. 

WITCHES. 
How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags, 
What is't you do? 

5723 Shaks. ; Macbeth. Act iv. Sc, 1. 



640 WITCHES— WIVES. 

What are these, 
So wither'd, and so wild in their attire; 
That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, 
And yet are on't. 

5724 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Midnight hags, 

By force of potent spells, of bloody characters, 
And conjurations, horrible to hear, 
Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep, 
And set the ministers of hell at work. 

5725 Rov;e : Jane Shore. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

WIVES— see Love, Marriage. 
Happy in this, she is not yet so old, 
But she may learn; happier than this, 
She is not bred so dull but she can learn; 
Happiest of all, is, that her gentle spirit 
Commits itself to yours, to be directed. 

5726 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

What? I ! I love ! I sue ! I seek a wife ! 
A woman that is like a German clock, 
Still a repairiug, ever out of frame, 
And never going aright; being a watch, 
But being watch'd that it may still go right ! 

5727 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

She is mine own ; 
And I as rich in having such a jewel, 
As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

5728 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, 
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 

5729 Shaks. : Mer. W. of W. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

I will be master of what is mine own : 

She is my goods, my chattels ; she is my house, 

My household-stuff/ my field, my barn, 

My horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing. 

5730 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act iii. Sc. 2 
I am asham'd, that women are so simple 

To offer war where they should kneel for peace; 
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, 
When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. 

5731 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2 C 
Should all despair 

That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind 
Would hang themselves. 

5732 Shaks. : Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. 



WIVES. 641 

You are iny true and honorable wife; 
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. 

5733 Shahs. : Jul. Cassar. Act ii. Sc. 1= 

As for my wife, 
I would you had her spirit in such another : 
The third o' the world is yours ; which with a snaffle 
You may pace easy, but not such a wife. 

5734 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
What thou bidd'st 

Unargued I obey ; so God ordains : 

God is thy law ; thou mine : to know no more 

Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. 

5735 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. iv. Line 635. 

Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, 
Thy wish, exactly to thy heart's desire. 

5736 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. vni. Line 450. 
Nothing lovelier can be found 

In woman, than to study household good, 
And good works in her husband to promote. 

5737 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 232. 

The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, 
Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, 
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. 

5738 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 267 

The man to Jove his suit pref err'd ; 
He begg'd a wife ; his prayer was heard. 
Jove wonder'd at his bold addressing: 
For how precarious is the blessing ! 

5739 Gay : Fables. Pt. i. Fable 39. 
What so pure, which envious tongues will spare? 

Some wicked wits have libell'd all the fair, 

With matchless impudence they style a wife, 

The dear-bought curse, and lawful plague of life ; 

A bosom serpent, a domestic evil, 

A night invasion, and a mid-clay devil; 

Let not the wise these sland'rous words regard, 

But curse the bones of ev'ry living bard. 

5740 Pope : January and May. Line 43. 

Horses (thou say'st) and asses men may try, 
And ring suspected vessels ere they buy ; 
But wives, a random choice, untried they take; 
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake; 
Then, nor till then, the veil's removed away, 
And all the woman glares in open day. 

5741 Pope: Wife of Bath. Line 100. 



642 WIVES— WOE. 

One word can charm all wrongs away, — 
The sacred name of Wife. 

5742 Oliver Wendell Holmes : Agnes. Pt, y. 
What is there in the vale of life 

Half so delightful as a wife, 

When friendship, love, and peace combine 

To stamp the marriage-bond divine? 

5743 Cowper : Love Abused. 
To no men are such cordial greetings given 

As those whose wives have made them fit for heaven. 

5744 Byron : Don Juan. Canto v. St. 154. 
Think you, if Laura had beeu Petrarch's wife, 

He would have written sonnets all his life. 

5745 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 8. 
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak ; 

She could not think, but would not cease to speak. 

5746 Crabbe : Struggles of Conscience. Line 343. 
Oh ! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, 

To find such numbers who will serve instead ; 
And in whatever state a man be thrown, 
'Tis that precisely they would wish their own. 

5747 Crabbe : Learned Boy. Line 17. 
The world well tried — the sweetest thing in life 

Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. 

5748 N. P. Willis: Lady Jane. Canto ii. St. 11. 
A courage to endure and to obey — 

A hate of gossip parlance, and of sway, 
Crown'd Isabel, through all her placid life, 
The queen of marriage — a most perfect wife. 

5749 Tennyson : Isabel. St. 2. 
A man may spare, 

And still be bare, 

If his wife be nowt, if his wife be nowt ; 

But a man may spend, 

And have money to lend, 

If his wife be owt, if his wife be owt. 

5750 Notes and Queries, Feb. 10, 1866. The Gypsy's Bhyme. 
WOE — see Adversity, Grief, Sorrow. 

So many miseries have craz'd my voice, 

That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute. 

5751 Shaks. : Bichard III. Act iv. Sc. 4. 
Woes cluster ; rare are solitary woes ; 

They love a train, they tread each other's heel. 

5752 Young : Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 63. 

No words suffice the secret soul to show, 
And truth denies all eloquence to woe. 

5753 Byron : Corsair. Canto iii. St. 22. 



WOMAN. 643 

WOMAN— see Anger, Coquette, Courtship, Frailty, Love, 
Ruling- Passion, Secrecy, Vixen, Voice. 
How the best state to know? — it is found out 
Like the best woman; —that least talked about. 

5754 Schiller : Votive Tablets. Best Governed State. 
Honor to women ! to them it is given 

To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven. 

5755 Schiller : Honor to Women. 
He bears an honorable mind, 

And will not use a woman lawlessly. 

5756 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 3. 
Women are as roses ; whose fair flower, 

Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 

5757 Shaks. : Tw. Night. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Women are frail too. 

Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves ; 
Which are as easy broke as they make forms. 
Women ! help heaven ! men their creation mar 
In profiting by them. 

5758 Shaks. : M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
We cannot fight for love, as men may do ; 

We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. 

5759 Shaks. : Mid. N. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
If ladies be but young and fair, 

They have the gift to know it. 

5760 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
What peremptory, eagle-sighted eye 

Dares look upon the heaven of her brow, 
That is not blinded by her majesty? 

5761 Shaks. : Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth, 

Unapt to toil and trouble in the world, 

But that our soft conditions, and our hearts, 

Should well agree with our external parts. 

5762 Shaks. : Tain, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. 
'Tis a good hearing, when children are toward. 

But a harsh hearing, when women are froward. 

5763 Shaks. : Tarn, of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. 
'Tis beauty, that doth oft make women proud ; 

'Tis virtue, that doth make them most admired ; 

'Tis government, that makes them seem divine. 

5764 Shaks. : 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 4. 
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible ; 

Thou, stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. 

5765 Shaks. ; 3 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 4. 



644 WOMAN. 

Two women plac'cl together makes cold weather. 

5766 Shaks. : Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 4 

A woman impudent and mannish grown 
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man 
In time of action. 

5767 Shaks. : Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc 3 

O most delicate fiend ! 
Who is't can read a woman ? 

5768 Shaks. : Cymbeline. Act v. Sc. 5. 

Proper deformity seems not in the fiend 
So horrid as in woman. 

5769 Shaks. : King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

You are pictures but of door ; 
Bells in your parlors ; wild cats in your kitchens ; 
Saints in your injuries ; devils being offended ; 
Players in your huswifery ; and huswives in your beds. 

5770 Shaks. : Othello. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Have you not heard it said full oft, 
A woman's nay doth stand for nought? 

5771 Shaks. : Pass. Pilgrim. Line 19. 

As pure and sweet, her fair brow seemed 
Eternal as the sky : 

And like the brook's low song, her voice, — 
A sound which could not die. 

5772 Whittier: Gone. 

Sweet promptings unto kindest deeds 
Were in her very look ; 
We read her face, as one who reads 
A true and holy book. 

5773 Whittier: Gone. 

Woman, they say, was only made of man : 
Methinks 'tis strange they should be so unlike ! 
It may be all the best was cut away, 
To make the woman, and the naught was left 
Behind with him. 

5774 Beaumont and Fletcher : Coxcomb. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Who trusts himself to woman, or to waves, 
Should never hazard what he fears to lose. 

5775 Oldmixon : [Governor of Cyprus]. 

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman ! 
It is so seldom heard, that, when it speaks, 
It ravishes all senses. 

5776 Massinger ; Old Law. Act iv. Sc. 2, 



WOMAN. 645 

O fairest of creation ! last and best 
Of all God's works! creature in whom excell'd 
Whatever can to sight or thought be form'd 
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! 

5777 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 896. 

Nothing lovelier can be found 
In woman, than to study household good, 
And good works in her husband to promote. 

5778 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ix. Line 232. 

Yet when I approach 
Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, 
And in herself complete ; so well to know 
Her own, that what she wills to do or say, 
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. 

5779 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. viii. Line 546. 

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill 
To turn the current of a woman's will. 

5780 Tuke : Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3. 

The souls of women are so small, 
That some believe they've none at all ; 
Or, if they have, like cripples, still 
They've but one faculty, the will. 

5781 Butler : Misc. Thoughts. Line 387. 

Women, like summer storms, awirile are cloudy, 
Burst out in thunder and impetuous showers : 
But straight the sun of beauty dawns abroad, 
And all the fair horizon is serene. 

5782 Rowe: Tamerlane. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Beshrew my heart, but it is wond'rous strange ; 

Sure there is something more than witchcraft in them, 

That masters ev'n the wisest of us all. 

5783 Rowe : Jane Shore. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

O woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee 
To temper man ; we had been brutes without you. 
Angels are painted fair to look like you : 
There's in you all that we believe of heaven, 
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, 
Eternal joy, and everlasting love. 

5784 Otway : Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Where is the man who has the power and skill 
To stem the torrent of a woman's will? 
For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; 
And if she won't, she won't ; so there's an end on't. 

5785 Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane 
John Field, Canterbury. {Examiner: May 31, 1829.] 



646 WOMAN. 

Women, with a mischief to their kind, 

Pervert, with bad advice, our better mind. 

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, 

And made her man his paradise forego, 

Where at heart's ease he lived ; and might have been 

As free from sorrow as he was from sin. 

For what the devil had their sex to do, 

That, born to folly, they presumed to know, 

And could not see the serpent in the grass? 

But I myself presume, and let it pass. 

5786 Dryden : Cock and the Fox. Line 555. 
Men can be great when great occasions call : 

In little duties women find their spheres, 

The narrow cares that cluster round the hearth. 

5787 B. II: Stoddard : Florence Nightingale. 
A pretty woman's worth some paius to see, 

Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown 
Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure. 

5788 Bobert Browning : Colombe's Birthday. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below 

Man can receive, or Providence bestow. 

5789 Fraed : Woman. 

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, 
The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears. 

5790 Gay : Beggars' Opera. Act ii. Sc. L 

Think not, when woman's transient breath is fled, 

That all her vanities at once are dead ; 

Succeeding vanities she still regards, 

And though she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards. 

Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, 

And love of ombre, after death survive. 

For when the fair in all their pride expire, 

To their first elements their souls retire : 

The sprites of fiery termagants in flame 

Mount up, and take a salamander's name. 

Soft yielding minds to water glide away, 

And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. 

The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, 

In search of mischief still on earth to roam. 

The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, 

And sport and flutter in the fields of air. 

5791 Bope: B. of the Lock. Canto i. Line 51. 

And yet believe me, good as well as ill, 
Woman's at best a contradiction still. 
Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can 
Its last best work, but forms a softer man. 

5792 Bope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 269. 



WOMAN. 647 

Men, some to business, some to pleasure take, 

Men, some to quiet, some to public strife, 
But every lady would be queen for life. 

5793 Pope : Moral Essays. Epis. ii. Line 215. 

Our grandsire, ere of Eve possessed, 

Aloue, and e'en in Paradise unblest, 

With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, 

And wander'd in the solitary shade ; 

The Maker saw, took pity, and bestow'd 

Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God. 

5794 Pope : January and May . Line 59. 

Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace 
To spin, to weep, and cully human race. 

5795 Pope: Wife of Bath. Line 160. 

First, then, a woman will, or won't, depend on't ; 
If she will do't, she will ; and there's an end on't. 
But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is, 
Pear is affront, and jealousy injustice. 

5796 Aaron Hill : Epilogue to Zara. 

TTomen were made to give our eyes delight ; 
A female sloven is an odious sight. 

5797 Young: Love of Fame. Satire vi. Line 213. 

If you resent, and wish a woman ill, 
But turn her o'er one moment to her will. 

5798 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 407. 

A shameless woman is the worst of men. 

5799 Young: Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 454. 

Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, 
A woman's noblest station is retreat ; 
Her fairest virtues fly from public sight. 

5800 Lord Lyttelton : Advice to a Lady. 

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. 

5801 James Bussell Lowell : Lrene. 
Auld nature swears, the lovely dears 

Her noblest work she classes, O ; 
Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, 
And then she made the lasses, O. 

5802 Burns : Green G-rovj the Bashes. 

One moral's plain — without more fuss; 
Man's social happiness all rests on us : 
Through all the drama — whether damn'd or not — 
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. 

5803 Sheridan: Tfie Pdvals. Epilogue. 



648 WOMAN. 

A tigress robb'd of young, a lioness, 

Or any interesting" beast of prey, 

Are similes at hand for the distress 

Of ladies who cannot have their own way. 

5804 Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 132 
She was a soft landscape of mild earth, 

Where all was harmony, and calm, and quiet, 
Luxuriant, budding; cheerful without mirth, 
Which, if not happiness, is much more nigh it 
Than are your mighty passions. 

5805 Byron : Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 53. 
I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, 

And pity lovers rather more than seamen. 

5806 Byron: Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 53. 
And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify 

A woman; so she's good, what does it signify? 

5807 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 57. 
What a strange thing is man ! and what a stranger 

Is woman ! What a whirlwind is her head, 
And what a whirlpool full of depth and danger 
i Is all the rest' about her ! Whether wed, 
Or widow, maid or mother, she can change her 
Mind like the wind ; whatever she has said 
Or done, is light to what she'll say or do ; — 
The oldest thing on record, and yet new! 

5808 Byron: Don Juan. Canto ix. St. 64 
"Petticoat influence " is a great reproach, 

Which e'en those who obey would fain be thought 

To fly from, as from hungry pikes a roach ; 

But since beneath it upon earth we're brought 

By various joltings of life's hackney coach, 

I for one venerate a petticoat — 

A garment of mystical sublimity, 

No matter whether russet, silk, or dimity. 

5809 Bxjron : Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 26. 
Some waltz ; some draw ; some fathom the abyss 

Of metaphysics ; others are content 

With music; the most moderate shine as wits, 

While others have a genius turn'd for fits. 

5810 Byron : Don Juan. Canto xii. St. 52. 
The very first 

Of human life must spring from woman's breast : 
Your first small words are taught you from her lips ; 
Your first tears quench'd by her, and your last sighs 
Too often breath'd out in a woman's hearing, 
When men have shrunk from the ignoble care 
Of watching the last hour of him who led them. 

5811 Byron : Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2 



WOMAN. 649 

Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, 
Uncertain, coy, aud hard to please, 
And variable as the shade 
By the light quivering aspen made ; 
"When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
A ministering angel thou! 

5812 Scott: Marmion. Canto vi. St. 30. 
The lif e_ of woman is full of woe ! 

Toiling on and on and on, 

With breaking heart, and tearful eyes, 

And silent lips, and in the soul 

The secret longings that arise, 

Which this world never satisfies ! 

Some more, some less, but of the whole 

Not one quite happy, no, not one ! 

5813 Longfellow : Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. ii. 
A noble type of good 

Heroic womanhood. 

5814 Longfellow: Santa Filomena. St. 11. 
"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exqui- 
site music. 

5815 Longfellow : Evangeline. Pt. I. i. Line 62. 
Thou art a woman, 

• And that is saying the best and worst of thee. 

5816 Bailey: Festus. Sc. The Drawing -Room. 
Three things a wise man will not trust, 

The wind, the sunshine of an April day, 
And woman's plighted faith. I have beheld 
The weathercock upon the steeple-point 
Steady from morn till eve ; and I have seen 
The bees go forth upon an April morn, 
Secure the sunshine will not end in showers ; 
But when was woman true? 

5817 Southey: Madoc. Pt. ii. The Tidings. Line 51. 
What will not woman, gentle woman, dare, 

When strong affection stirs her spirit up. 

5818 Southey : Madoc. Pt. ii. Caradoc and Senena. Line 132. 

Without our hopes, without our fears, 
Without the home that plighted love endears, 
Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
Oh ! what were man? — a world without a sun. 

5819 Campbell : PI. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 22, 

O woman ! whose form and whose soul 
Are the spell and the light of each path we pursue ; 
Whether sunn'd in the tropics, or chill'd at the pole, 
If woman be there, there is happiness too. 

5820 Moore: Lines Written on Leaving Philadelphia, 



650 WOMAN. 

My only books 

Were woman's looks, 

And folly's all they've taught me. 

5821 Moore : The Time Tve Lost in Wooing. 
The man, who sets his heart upon a woman, 

Is a chameleon, and doth feed on air : 

Erom air he takes his colors, holds his life — 

Changes with every wind — grows lean or fat — 

Kosy with hope, or green with jealousy, 

Or pallid with despair — just as the gale 

Varies from north to south — from heat to cold. 

Oh, woman ! woman ! thou should'st have few sins 

Of thine own to answer for ! Thou art the author 

Of such a book of follies in a man, 

That it would need the tears of all the angels 

To blot the record out ! 

5822 Bulwer-Lytton : Lady of Lyons. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Woman's grief is like a summer storm, 
Short as it is violent. 

5823 Joanna Baillie : Basil. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Woman's love is writ in water ! 
Woman's faith is traced on sand ! 

5824 W. E. Aytoun : Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers. Charles 

[Edward at Versailles. Line 201. 
Woman may err, woman may give her mind 
To evil thoughts, and lose her pure estate; 
But for one woman who affronts her kind 
By wicked passions and remorseless hate, 
A thousand make amends in age and youth, 
By heavenly pity, by sweet sympathy, 
By patient kindness, by enduring truth, 
By love, supremest in adversity. 

5825 Charles Mackay : Praise of Women. 

A rosebud set with little wilful thorns. 

And sweet as English air could make her, she. 

5826 Tennyson : Tlie Princess. Prologue. 

Woman is the lesser man. 

5827 Tennyson : Locksley Hall. St. 76. 
A woman mixed of such fine elements 

That were all virtue and religion dead 
She'd make them newly, being what she was. 

5828 George Eliot : The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. ii, 

A woman's rank 
Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: 
Therein alone she is royal. 

5829 George Eliot : Armgart. Sc. 2. 



WOMAN — WO OING. 65 1 

They the royal-hearted women are 
Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace 
For needy suffering- lives in lowliest place, 
Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, 
The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile. 

5830 George Eliot : How Lisa Loved the King. 

Her body was so slight, 
It seemed she could have floated in the sky, 
And with the angelic choir made symphony; 
But in her cheek's rich tinge, and in the dark 
Of darkest hair and eyes, she bore a mark 
Of kinship to her generous Mother Earth, 
The fervid land that gives the plumy palm-trees birth. 

5831 George Eliot : How Lisa Loved the King. 

Constant in love who tries a woman's mind, 
Wealth, beauty, wit, and all in her doth find. 

5832 Robert Greene : From Alcida. Written on Two Tables 

[at a Tomb. 

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue ; 
A string which hath no discord. 

5833 Barry Cornwall : Baffaelle and Fornarina. Sc. 2. 

Loveliest of women ! heaven is in thy soul, 
Beauty and virtue shine for ever round thee, 
Brightening each other ! thou art all divine ! 

5834 Addison : Cato. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

WOODMAN. 

Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd 
The cheerful haunts of man to wield the axe 
And drive the wedge in yonder forest drear ; 
From morn to eve his solitary task ; 
Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears, 
And tail cropp'd short, half lurcher and half cur, 
His dog attends him. 

5835 Cowper : Task. Bk. v. Line 41. 

WOOING — see Courtship. 
Woo the fair one when around 
Early birds are singing : 
When o'er all the fragrant ground 
Early herbs are springing ; 
When the brookside, bank, and grove 
All with blossoms laden, 
Shine with beauty, breathe of love, 
Woo the timid maiden. 

5836 William Cullen Bryant : Song. 



«52 WORDS. 

WORDS —see Calumny, Conversation, Eloquence, Heedless- 
ness, Letter, Slander, Talking-, Thought, Worship. 

One doth not know 
How much an ill word may empoison liking. 

5837 Shaks. : Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
" Windy attorneys to their client woes, 

Airy succeeders of intestate joys, 

Poor breathing orators of miseries ! 

Let them have scope : though what they do impart 

Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. 

5838 Shaks. : Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 4, 
They say, the tongues of dying men 

Enforce attention, like deep harmony; 

Where words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain ; 

For they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. 

5839 Shaks. : Bichard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below : 

Words without thoughts, never to heaven go. 

5840 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Words are words ; I never yet did hear, 

That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear. 

5841 Shaks. : Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. 
Some syllables are swords. 

5842 Henry Vaughan : Rules and Lessons. 
Apt words have power to 'suage 

The tumors of a troubled mind ; 
And are as balm to fester'd wounds. 

5813 Milton : Samson Agonistes. Line 184. 

Words are but pictures, true or false design'd, 
To draw the lines and features of the mind ; 
The characters and artificial draughts, 
T' express the inward images of thoughts ; 
And artists say a picture may be good, 
Although the moral be not understood ; 
Whence some infer they may admire a style, 
Though all the rest be e'er so mean and vile ; 
Applaud th' outsides of words, but never mind 
With what fantastic tawdry they are lin'd. 

5844 Butler : Sat. upon the Abuse of H. Learning. Line 223 
What you keep by you, vou may change and mend ; 

But words once spoke can never be recall'd. 

5845 Roscommon: Art of Poetry. Line 439. 

Men ever had, and ever will have, leave 
To coin new words well suited to the age. 
Words are like leaves, some wither every year, 
And every year a younger race succeeds. 

5846 Roscommon : Art of Poetry. Line 74. 



WORDS — WORK. 653 

My words are only words, and moved 
Upon the topmost froth of thought. 

5847 Tennyson : In Memoriam. Pt. li. St. 1. 

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. 

5848 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iii. 

Your words bring daylight with them when you speak. 

5849 George Eliot : Spanish Gypsy. Bk. L 
Words, however, are thiugs. 

5850 Owen Meredith : Lucile. Pt. i. Canto ii. St. 6. 

Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song. 

5851 Waller : To Mr. Creech. 

Words are things ; and a small drop of ink, 

Falling like dew upon a thought, produces 

That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. 

5852 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 88. 

WORDSWORTH — see Poets. 
Peddlers, and boats, and wagons ! O ye shades 
Of Pope and Dryden, are we come to this? 
That trash of each sort not alone evades 
Contempt, but from the bathos' vast abyss 
Floats scum-like uppermost, and these Jack Cades, 
Of sense and soug above your graves may hiss — 
The " Little Boatman," and his " Peter Bell," 
Can sneer at him who drew " Achitophel." 

5853 Byron : Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 100. 

WORK — see Labor, Vocation. 
All service is the same with God — 
With God, whose puppets, best and worst, 
Are we : there is no last nor first. 

5854 Robert Browning : Pippa Passes. Last Lines. 
Free men freely work : 

Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. 

5855 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. viii. Line 752. 

Beloved, let us love so well, 
Our work shall still be better for our love, 
And still our love be sweeter for our work, 
And both, commended, for the sake of each, 
. By all true workers and true lovers born. 

5856 Mrs. Browning : Aurora Leigh. Bk. ix. Line 950. 
It is not linen you're wearing out, 

But human creatures' lives. 

5857 Hood : Song of the Shirt. 
We live not to ourselves, our work is life. 

5858 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Home. 



654 WORK— WORLD. 

Work is its own best earthly meed, 
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng 
Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar. 

5859 Jean Ingelow : Work. 
For hearts where wakened love doth lurk, 

How fine, how blest a thing is work ! 
For work does good when reasons fail. 

5860 Jean Ingelow : Reflections. 
Work is my recreation, 

The play of faculty; a delight like that 
Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish 
In darting through the water, — 
Nothing more. 

5861 Longfellow : Michael Angelo. Pt. ii. 4. 
WORLD — see Age, Time. 

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, 
Which I with sword will open. 

5862 Shaks : Mer. W. of W. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 

A stage, where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one. 

5863 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1. 
You have too much respect upon the world : 

They lose it that do buy it with much care. 

5864 Shaks. : Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1 
O, how full of briars is this working-day world ! 

5865 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. 
O, what a world is this, when what is comely, 
Envenoms him that bears it ! 

5866 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Thon seest, we are not all alone unhappy : 

This wide and universal theatre 

Presents more woeful pageants than the scene 

Wherein we play in. 

5867 Shaks. : As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. 
This earthly world ; where to do harm 

Is often laudable; to do good, sometime, 
Accounted dangerous folly. 

5868 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iv. Sc. 2. 
How weary, stale, fiat, and unprofitable 

Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 

Eye on't ! oh, fye ! 'tis an unweeded garden, 

That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross in nature, 

Possess it merely. 

5869 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 2. 
East by hanging in a golden chain, 

This pendant world, in bigness as a star. 

5870 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. ii. Line 1051 



WORLD. 655 

There was an ancient sage philosopher, 
That had read Alexander Ross over, 
And swore the world, as he could prove, 
Was made of fighting and of love. 

5871 Butler : Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 1 

Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend ; 
The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. 
E'en kings but play ; and when their part is done, 
Some other, worse or better, mount the throne. 

5872 Dryden : Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2163. 

What is this world? — A term which men have got. 

To signify not one in ten knows what : 

A term, which with no more precision passes 

To point out herds of men than herds of asses ; 

In common use no more it means, we find, 

Than many fools in same opinions joined. 

5873 Churchill : Night. Line 353. 

Let not the cooings of the world allure thee; 
Which of her lovers ever found her true? 

5874 Young : Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 1279. 

If all the world must see the world 
As the world the world hath seen, 
Then it were better for the world 
That the world had never been. 

5875 C. G. Leland : The World and the World. 

How beautiful is all this visible world ! 

How glorious in its action and itself ! 

But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, 

Half dust, half deity, alike unfit 

To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make 

A conflict of its elements, and breathe 

The breath of degradation and of pride, 

Contending with low wants and lofty will, 

Till our mortality predominates, 

And men are — what they name not to themselves, 

And trust not to each other. 

5876 Byron : Manfred. Act i Sc. 2. 

Well — well, the world must turn upon its axis, 
And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, 
And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, 
And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails ; 
The king commands us, and the doctor quacks us, 
The priest instructs, and so our life exhales, 
A little breath, love, wine, ambition, fame, 
Fighting, devotion, dust, — perhaps a name. 

5877 Byron : Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 4 



656 WORLD — WRITING. 

This world is all a fleeting show, 

For mail's illusion given ; 

The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, • 

Deceitful shine, deceitful flow — 

There's nothing true but Heaven. 

5878 Moore : This World is all a Fleeting Show. 
The world is a great poem, and the world's 

The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts. 

5879 Bailey : Festus. Sc. Everywhere, 
O world ! so few the years we live, 

Would that the life which thou dost give 

Were life indeed ! 

Alas ! thy sorrows fall so fast, 

Our happiest hour is when at last 

The soul is freed. 

5880 Longfelloio : Coplas de Manrique. St. 49. 

WORMS. 

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king. 

5881 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

WORSHIP— see Sermons. 

There may be worship without words. 

5882 Longfellow: My Cathedral. 

WORTH — see Courage, Misery, Poverty. 
Worth makes the man, and waut of it the fellow; 
The rest is all but leather or prunella. 

5883 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 203. 

WOUNDS. 

He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 

5884 Shaks. : Bom. and Jul. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

WRATH — see Ang-er, Passion. 

Come not within the measure of my wrath. 

5885 Shaks. : Two Gent, of V. Act v. Sc. 4. 

Kage is the shortest passion of our souls : 

Like narrow brooks, that rise with sudden show'rs, 

It swells in haste, and falls again as soon. 

5886 Bowe : The Fair Penitent. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

WRETCH. 
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 
A living dead man. 

5887 Shaks. : Com. of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. 

WRITING — see Authors, Criticism, Pen, Poetry. 
'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill 
Appear in writing or in judging ill. 

5888 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. i Line 1 



WRITING — YEARS. 657 

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well, 
And when philosophy directs your choice, 
To proper subjects rightly understood, 
"Words from your pen will naturally flow. 

5889 Roscommon : From Horace. Of the Art of Poetry. 

[Line 342. 

You write with ease to show your breeding, 
But easy writing's curs'd hard reading. 

5890 Sheridan : Clio's Prot. 

To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine 

own mind, write. 
And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and 

to be answered. 

5891 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Writing. 

WRONG — see Tenderness. 
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. 

5892 James Russell Lowell : Present Crisis. St. 8. 



YEARS — see Time. 

Jumping o'er times, 
Turning the accomplishment of many years 
Into an hourglass. 

5893 Shaks. : Henry V. Act i. Chorus. 

Years following years, steal something every day; 
At last they steal us from ourselves away. 

5894 Pope : Satire vi. Line 72. 
Years steal 

Fire from the mind, as vigor from the limb ; 

And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim. 

5895 Byron : Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 8. 

I sigh not over vanished years, 
But watch the years that hasten by. 
Look, how they come, — a mingled crowd 
Of bright and dark, but rapid clays. 

5896 William Cullen Bryant: Lapse of Time. 

The specious panorama of a year 
But multiplies the image of a clay, — 
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame; 
And universal Nature, through her vast 
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet, 
Repeats one note. 

5897 Emerson: Xenophanes. 



658 YEOMAN— YOUTH. 

YEOMEN. 

And you, good yeomen, 
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here 
The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear 
That you are worth your breeding ; which I doubt not ; 
For there is none of you so mean and base, 
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. 

5898 Sh'aks. : Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 1 

YESTERDAY— see Day, The Past. 

What shall I bring to lay upon thy bier, 

Yesterday ! thou day forever dead ! 

With what strange garlands shall I crown thy head, 
Thou silent One. 

5899 Julia C. B. Dorr: Three Days. 

YES AND NO — see No. 

" Yes," I answered you last night; 
" No," this morning, sir, I say : 
Colors seen by candle-light 
Will not look the same by day. 

5900 3Irs. Browning : The Lady's Yes. 

YEW-TREE— see TREES. 

Cheerless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 
'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms : 
Where light-heel'd ghosts, and visionary shades, 
Beneath the wan cold moon (as fame reports) 
Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds. 
No other merriment, dull tree ! is thine. 

5901 Blair : Grave. Line 22. 

YOUTH — see Age, Boyhood, Childhood, Disparity, Educa- 
tion, Home. 

Eor youth no less becomes 
The light and careless livery that it wears, 
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, 
Importing health and graveness. 

5902 Shaks. : Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7. 
My salad days ; 

When I was green in judgment. 

5903 Shaks. : Ant. and Cleo. Act i. Sc. 5. 

1 remember, I remember 

How my childhood fleeted by, — 
The mirth of its December, 
And the warmth of its July. 

5904 Praed: I Remember, I Remember. 
We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; 

Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. 

5905 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 238 



YOUTH. 659 

Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, 

While proudly riding o'er the azure realm 

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, 

Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ; 

Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway, 

That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey. 

5906 Gray : Bard. Pt. ii. St. 2. 
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, 

We love the play-place of our early days. 
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, 
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none. 

5907 Cowper : Tirocinium. Line 296. 
I can remember, with unsteady feet, 

Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure 

In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long 

Have lost their power to please ; which when I see them, 

Raise only now a melancholy wish 

I were the little trifler once again, 

Who could be pleas'd so lightly. 

5908 Southey : Thalaba. Bk. x. St. 13. 
Youth ! youth ! how buoyant are thy hopes ! they turn, 
Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. 

5909 Jean Ingelow : Four Bridges. St. 56. 
Standing, with reluctant feet, 

Where the brook and river meet, 
Womanhood and childhood fleet ! 

5910 Longfellow: Maidenhood. 
How beautiful is youth ! how bright it gleams 

With its illusions, aspirations, dreams ! 
Book of Beginnings, Story without End, 
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! 

All possibilities are in its hands, 

No danger daunts it, and no foe withstands ; 

In its sublime audacity of faith, 

" Be thou removed ! " it to the mountain saith, 

And with ambitious feet, secure and proud, 

Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud ! 

5911 Longfellow: Morituri Salutamus. 
There is nothing can equal the tender hours 

When life is first in bloom, 

When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers, 

Einds everywhere perfume ; 

When the present is all and it questions not 

If those flowers shall pass away, 

But pleased with its own delightful lot, 

Dreams never of decay. 

5912 Bohn: Ms. 



660 ZEAL. 

Z. 

ZEAL— see Bigotry, Faith, Saints, Schismatics. 
Zeal and duty are not slow; 
But on Occasion's forelock watchful wait. 

5913 Milton: Par. Regained. Bk. iii. Line 172 
His zeal 

None seconded, as out of season judg'd, 
Or singular and rash. 

5914 Milton : Par. Lost. Bk. v. Line 849. 



INDEX OF ATJTHOES. 



The references -which follow the Chronological Data are the numbers of the Quotations U 
consecutive order from the respective Authors, under which they are placed. 



Addison, Joseph, b. l[ilston,Wilt- 
shire, Eng.. 1672 ; d. London, Eng., 
1719. — 79, 298, 299, 338, 595, 631, 
771, 772, 796, 1056, 1131, 1191, 1241, 
1430, 1431, 1473, 1554, 1764, 1772, 
1842, 1843, 2220, 2221, 2222, 2223, 
2224, 2365, 2366, 2562, 2669, 2670, 
2898, 2899, 2900, 2901, 2902, 3322, 
3404, 3750, 3965, 4021, 4069, 4139, 
4240, 4688, 4821, 4967, 5337, 5564, 
5834. 

Akenside, Mark. b. Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne, 1721; d. London, Eng., 
1770. — 1366. 

Aldrich,Thoinas Bailey, b. Ports- 
mouth, 2s. H., 1S36; living. — 12,286, 
700, 812, 1019, 1134, 1293, 1506, 1860, 
1861, 2356, 3162, 3332, 3420, 3630, 
3897, 4270, 4488, 4699, 4931, 4932, 
5410, 5497. 

Anacreon. b. Teos, Asia Minor, 
B.C. 559; d. B.C. 478. — 1308, 1309. 

Anonymous. — 2500, 3551, 4713. 

Armstrong, John. b. Liddesdale, 
Eng., 1709; d. London, Eng., 1779. 
— 609, 2092, 3425, 4479, 5107, 510S, 
5258, 5287, 5288, 5289, 5525, 5526, 
5660, 5661. 

Aytoun, Williani Edmond- 
stoune.— 4695, 5824. 

Bailey, Philip James, b. Not- 
tingham, Eng., 1816: living. — 66, 
133, 342, 343, 453, 564, 658, 791, 1065, 
1143, 1173, 1389, 1428, 1549, 1626, 
1627, 1766, 1S77, 1976, 2143, 2144, 
2157, 2229, 2280, 2281, 2360, 2487, 
2488, 2518, 2720, 2753, 2998, 2999, 
3000, 3001, 3077, 3078, 3229, 3477, 
3478, 3512, 3908, 3909, 3910, 3968, 
3997, 4143, 4194, 4798, 4901, 4902, 
5044, 5211, 5212, 5213, 5214, 5383, 
5384, 5411, 5563, 5644, 5816, 5858, 
5879. 

Baillie, Joanna, b. Lanarkshire, 
Scot., 1762; d. Hampstead, Eng., 
1851. —103, 131, 782, 856, 1132, 1294, 
1651, 1856, 1857, 1943, 2299, 2576, 
3253, 3290, 3365, 4001, 4656, 5177, 
5227, 5268, 5582, 5823. 



Barlow, Joel. b. Reading, Conn., 
1754; d. Zarnowicke, Poland, 1812. 

— 2403. 

Bayly, Thomas Havnes. b. near 

Bath, Eng., 1797; d. 1839. — 14, 

3171, 3172, 4937. 
Beattie, James, b. Laurencekirk, 

Scot., 1735; d. Aberdeen, Scot., 

1803. — 129, 389, 1578, 2581, 3466, 

4300, 4458. 
Beaumont & Fletcher. 

John Fletcher, b. Rye, Eng., 1576; 
d. London, Eng., 1625. 

Francis Beaumont, b. Leicester- 
shire, 1586; d. 1616. 

25, 28, 30, 448, 471, 732, 819, 1176, 

1246, 1248, 1610, 1892, 2867, 3044, 

3219, 3277, 3383. 3476, 4239, 4610, 

5225, 5273, 5774. 
Benserade, Isaac de. b. 1612; d. 

1691.— 364. 
Bickerstaff, Isaac, b. Ireland, 

circa. 1735; d. 1787. —2398. 
Blair, Robert, b. Edinburgh, Scot., 

1699; d. Athelstaneford, Scot., 1747. 

— 1077, 1576, 1577, 1S49, 1865, 1962, 
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 4547, 
4977, 4978, 4979, 5091, 5901. 

Blake, William, b. London, Eng., 
1757 ; d. London, Eng., 182S.— 5002. 

Bloomfield, Robert, b. Honing- 
ton, Eng., 1766; d. Sbefford, Eng., 
1823.-4888,4934, 5416. 

Bohn, Henry G. b. London, Eng., 
1795 :d. 1884.— 361, 362, 1631, 1859, 
1923, 3116, 3185, 3984, 4358, 4359, 
4783, 5154, 5444, 5467, 5912. 

Boswell, James, b. Edinburgh, 
Scot., 1740; d. 1795. — 2148. 

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. b. 
Fredericksvern, Norway, 1848; liv- 
ing. — 662, 1216, 1825, 2548, 3147, 
3333, 5038. 

Brady, John. 4493. 

Brown, Tom. b. Shropshire, Eng., 
1663; d. 1704.— 1255. 

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. 
b. London, Eng., 1809; d. Florence, 
Italy, 1861. — 222, 345, 346, 431,446, 



662 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



447, 643, 706, 1055, 1525, 1538, 1827, 
1873, 1998, 2055, 2490, 2578, 2604, 
2656, 2708, 3006, 3007, 3008, 3009, 
3010, 3011, 3711, 3730, 3741, 3742, 
3838, 3898, 4082, 4562, 4619, 4620, 
4690, 4691, 5391, 5425, 5695, 5855, 
5856, 5900. 

Browning, Robert, b. Camber- 
well, Eng., 1812; d. 1889 — 258, 412, 
512, 597, 1330, 1510, 1637, 1638, 1768, 
1797, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1895, 
2012, 2085, 2702, 2879, 3247, 3353, 
3354, 3372, 3423, 3494, 3610, 3611, 
3612, 3748, 3858, 3903, 4076, 4622, 
4698, 4815, 4828, 5006, 5007, 5216, 
5341, 5386, 5387, 5532, 5788, 5854. 

Bryant, William Cullen. b. Curn- 
mington, Mass., 1794; d. New York, 
1878.— 81, 2G9, 270, 271, 334, 490, 
491, 492, 505, 571, 653, 667, 697, 698, 
699, 727, 728, 729, 799, 1020, 1520, 
1521, 1722, 1723, 1803, 2300, 2301, 
2302, 2303, 2339, 2495, 2595, 2714, 
2909, 3093, 3094, 3182, 3344, 3374, 
3455, 3456, 3457, 3552, 3556, 3557, 
3601, 3602, 3626, 3627, 3669, 3780, 
3781, 4077, 4125, 4154, 4339, 4340, 
4477, 4486, 4720, 4721, 4722, 4781, 
4875, 4876, 4907, 4908, 4909, 4990, 
5035, 5046, 5167, 5230, 5342, 5343, 
5344, 5362, 5415, 5620, 5645, 5646, 
5647, 5648, 5649, 5650, 5651, 5671, 
5836, 5896. 

Buchanan, Robert, b. 1841. — 
4926. 

Bulwer, Edward George Earle 
Lytton [Baron Lytton]. b. Lon- 
don, Eng., 1803; d. Torquay, 
France, 1873. — 1938, 3793, 3820, 
4392, 4393, 5822. 

Bunvan, John. b. Elstow, Eng., 
1628; d. London, Eng., 1688.— 3784. 

Burns, Robert, b. Ayr, Scot., 
1759; d. Dumfries, Scot., 1796.— 
502, 506, 695, 1312, 1313, 2195, 2230, 
2388, 2721, 2928, 2929, 3070, 3855, 
4138, 4244, 4471, 5623, 5802. 

Butler, Samuel, b. Worcester- 
shire, Eng., 1612; d. London, Eng., 
1680. — 53, 136, 159, 192, 193, 233, 
296, 308, 390, 395, 494, 548, 615, 670, 
692, 693, 758, 800, 801. 808, 879, 880, 
1190, 1240, 1247, 1262, 1267, 1274, 
1287, 1318, 1372, 1408, 1453, 1565, 
1611, 1617, 1662, 1686, 1692, 1782, 
1783, 1891, 1914, 1920, 1921, 1922, 
1930, 1931, 1982, 1992, 2215, 2216, 
2217, 2218, 2219, 2242, 2374, 2483, 
2499, 2511, 2561, 2567, 2568, 2619, 
2620, 2621, 2622, 2623, 2624, 2637, 
2766, 2880, 2881, 2882, 2883, 3018, 
3122, 3123, 3124, 3153, 3286, 3301, 
3302, 3303, 3304, 3321, 3345, 3509, 
3549, 3550, 3573, 3574, 3575, 3576, 



3577, 3578, 3579, 3594, 3631, 3657, 
3678, 3679, 3788, 3814, 3815, 3828, 
3841, 3S67, 3868, 3869, 3870, 3927, 
3931, 3974, 3975, 4006, 4010, 4056, 
4057, 4092, 4094, 4103, 4115, 4116, 
4148, 4165, 4166, 4167, 4178, 4183, 
4193, 4301, 4324, 4328, 4403, 4404, 
4405, 4406, 4451, 4612, 4646, 4705, 
4706, 4725, 4919, 4955, 4958, 4959, 
5086, 5087. 5099, 5182, 5365, 5366, 
5537, 5560, 5569, 5604, 5657, 5703, 
5704, 5705, 5706, 5781, 5844, 5871. 

Byrom, John. b. near Manchester, 
Eng., 1691; d. 1763. — 1263, 1410. 

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. 
b. London, Eng., 1788; d. Misso- 
longhi, Greece, 1824. —43, 54, 55, 57, 
74, 100, 101, 130, 152, 174, 223, 249, 
250, 251, 279, 280, 283, 291, 300, 301, 
302, 303, 304, 305, 349, 350, 351, 352, 
353, 354, 355, 356, 391, 398, 413, 422, 
474, 475, 487, 488, 489, 516, 538, 551, 
568, 569, 590, 591. 592, 611, 636, 637, 
638, 690, 691, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 
779, 817, 818, 827, 829, 832, 854, 855, 
866, 882, 883, 884, 885, 905, 914, 932, 
933, 934, 946, 961, 962, 963, 973, 980, 
981, 982, 983, 984, 985, 986, 987, 1013, 
1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 
1086, 1087, 1088, 1116, 1119, 1178, 
1194, 1195, 1196, 1223, 1224, 1225, 
1226, 1230, 1292, 1314, 1315, 1316, 
1321, 1343, 1350, 1355, 1356, 1357, 
1368, 1370, 1393, 1396, 1409, 1413, 
1432, 1445, 1477, 1482, 1515, 1529, 
1536, 1579, 1580, 1581, 1582, L583, 
1584, 1590, 1600, 1601, 1602, 1603, 
1604, 1605, 1606, 1607, 1665, 1671, 
1688, 1689, 1773, 1774, 1787, 1788, 
1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, 1855, 1866, 
1903, 1904, 1912, 2028, 2033, 2034, 
2035, 2059. 2060. 2061, 2062, 2063, 
2073, 2075', 2095, 2118, 2119, 2120, 
2121, 2129, 2130, 2136, 2139, 2153, 
2154, 2158, 2159, 2175, 2176, 2177, 
2263, 2270, 2288, 2289, 2296, 2298, 
2306, 2331, 2332, 2354, 2359, 2380, 
2389, 2410, 2415, 2416, ' 2434, 2435, 
2457, 2458, 2476, 2477, 2537, 2556, 
2557, 2558, 2574, 2575, 2582, 2677, 
2722, 2723, 2724, 2725, 2770, 2771, 
2932, 2933, 2934, 2935, 2936, 2937, 
2938, 2939, 2940, 2941, 2942, 2943, 
2944, 2945, 2946, 2947, 2948, 2949, 
2950, 2951, 2952, 2953, 2954, 2955, 
2956, 2957, 2958, 2959, 2960, 3017, 
3081, 3082, 3083, 3084, 3085, 3086, 
3141, 3142, 3149, 3152, 3191, 3192, 
3193, 3235, 3266, 3270, 3311, 3326, 
3327, 3349, 3350, 3351, 3376, 3377, 
3378, 3379, 3415, 3416, 3434, 3467, 
3493, 3526, 3527, 3528, 3545, 3580, 
3596, 3597, 3598, 3599, 3600, 3639, 
3654, 3671, 3672, 3714, 3715, 3716, 



INDEX OF A UTHORS. 



663 



3717, 


3783, 


3792, 


3796, 


3S25, 


3853 


3854, 


3860, 


3861, 


3862, 


3915, 


3916 


3917, 


3918, 


3919, 


3920, 


4096, 


4111 


4131, 


4132, 


4170, 


4206, 


4217, 


4275 


4292, 


4313, 


4314, 


4315, 


4337, 


4346 


4348, 


4360, 


4366, 


4367, 


4368, 


4384 


4395, 


4396, 


4402, 


4417, 


4418, 


4423 


4435, 


4445, 


4446, 


4466, 


4472, 


4474 


4480, 


4481, 


4482, 


4484, 


4518, 


4546 


4565, 


4566, 


4571, 


4579, 


4580, 


4585 


4586, 


4618, 


4632, 


4634, 


4653, 


4654 


4665, 


4666, 


4684, 


46S5, 


4729, 


4730 


4731, 


4734, 


4735, 


4748, 


4749, 


4765, 


4766, 


4767, 


4768, 


4769, 


4770, 


4771 


4772, 


4773, 


4774, 


4799, 


4800, 


4801, 


4826, 


4827, 


4830, 


4834, 


4860, 


4862, 


4873, 


4896, 


4897, 


4898, 


4981, 


4996 


5017, 


5071, 


5076, 


5103, 


5104, 


5142, 


5143, 


5144, 


5145, 


5146, 


5147, 


5148 


5149, 


5150, 


5174, 


5175, 


5176, 


5184, 


5197, 


5199, 


5201, 


5263, 


5264, 


5265, 


5266, 


5267, 


5327, 


5328, 


5329, 


5339, 


5377, 


5378, 


5379, 


5380, 


5400, 


5405, 


5427, 


5428, 


5429, 


5452, 


5460, 


5461, 


5462, 


5483, 


5489, 


5528, 


5571, 


5572, 


5573, 


5574, 


5575, 


5576, 


5577, 


5578, 


5579, 


5580, 


5581, 


5591, 


5592, 


5609, 


5624, 


5637, 


5662, 


5663, 


5744, 


5745, 


5753, 


5804, 


5805, 


5806, 


5807, 


5808, 


5809, 


5810, 


5811, 


5852, 


5853, 


5876, 


5877, 


5895. 











Campbell, Thomas, b. Glasgow, 
Scot., 1777; d. Boulogne, Fr., 1844. 

— 142, 359, 1273, 1695, 1701, 1717, 
1757, 2178, 2264, 2265, 2266, 2267, 
3431, 3757, 4055, 4133, 4450, 4459, 
4925, 4982, 5155, 5157, 5819. 

Canning, George. b. London, 

Eng., 1770; d. Cheswick, Eng., 

1827. — 1854. 
Carew, Lady. — 1117. 
Carey, Henry, b. 1663; d. Cold- 

bath-Fields, Eng., 1743.— 712. 
Carlyle, Thomas. b.Ecclefechan, 

Scot., 1795; d. Cbelsea, Eng., 1881. 

— 2244, 2740, 3079. 

Cary, Alice, b. near Cincinnati, 
O., 1820; d. New York city, 1871.— 

188, 264, 730, 1179, 2245, 3005, 3540, 
4389. 

Cary, Phoebe, b. near Cincinnati, 
O., 1824; d. New York city, 1871.— 

189, 190, 664, 1511, 4225. 
Centlivre, Susannah, b. Lincoln- 
shire, Eng., 1667; d. London, Eng., 
1723.— 3181. 

Chapman, George, b. Hitchin, 
Eng., 1557; d. London, Eng., 1634. 

— 17S1.3393. 

Chatterton, Thomas, b. Bristol, 
Eng., 1752; d. London, Eng., 1770. 

— 2985,2986,3080,4489. 
Chazet. — 1732. 



Churchill, Charles, b. Westmins- 
ter, Eng., 1731; d. Boulogne, Fr., 
1764. — 39, 172, 178, 281, 282, 463, 482, 
501, 929, 1172, 1249, 1387, 1400, 1570, 
1613, 1672, 1679, 1736, 1847, 1890, 
1924, 2104, 2171, 2228, 2363, 2375, 
2387, 2397, 2640, 3227, 3249, 3565, 
3544, 3653, 3670, 3894, 3928, 4267, 
4356, 4415, 4427, 4-128, 4429, 4430, 
4431, 4449, 4469, 4508, 4509, 4510, 
4558, 4559, 4560, 4631, 4651, 4724, 
4842, 4845, 4853, 4889, 4921, 4956, 
5050, 5115, 5311, 5371, 5454, 5484, 
5490, 5519, 5520, 5533, 5713, 5873. 

Cibber, Colley. b. London, Eng., 
1671 ; d. 1757.— 507, 2091, 2921, 3391. 

Clemmer, Mary. b. Utica, X. Y., 
1839 ; d. 1884.— 1596, 1597, 1835, 1836, 
1837, 1838, 1966, 2392, 2486, 3241, 
3482, 3993, 4011, 4598, 4599, 5298. 

Coe, Richard. — 3640. 

Coke, Sir Edward, b. Mileham, 
Eng., 1549; d. Stoke, Eng., 1634.— 
2631. 

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, b. 
Devonshire, Eng., 1772; d. London, 
Eng., 1834.— 78, 221, 1000, 2284, 2404, 
2966, 3558, 3719, 3794, 3994, 3995, 
4130, 4229, 4325, 4899. 

Collins, William, b. Chichester, 
Eng., 1720; d. Chichester, Eng., 
1756.— 486, 3180, 3412, 3413, 3777, 
3840, 5034, 5518. 

Colman, George [the younger], 
b. 1762; d. London, Eng., 1836.— 
2372. 

Congreve, William, b. Bardsey, 
Eng., 1670; d. London, Eng., 1729. 

— 1145, 2116, 2905, 3129, 3405, 3989, 
4070, 4595, 5114, 5293. 

Cook, Eliza, b. London, Eng., 
1817; d. Sept. 25, 1889. —3195, 3432, 
3536, 3808, 4004, 4401, 4716, 4885, 
4886, 5382, 5593, 5626, 5633. 

' ' C orn wall, Barry . ' ' See Procter, 
Bryan Waller. 

Cotton, Charles, b. Staffordshire, 
Eng., 1630; d. Westminster, Eng., 
1687.-2093,3137. 

Cowley, Abraham, b. London, 
Eng., 1618; d. Chertsv, Eng., 1667. 

— 459, 1542, 1562, 1885, 2168, 2868, 
5010, 5283. 

Cowper, William, b. Great Berk- 
hanistead, Eng., 1731 ; d. East Dere- 
ham, Eng., 1800. —69, 80, 127, 128, 
182, 244, 245, 290, 373, 392, 402, 455, 
503, 610, 613, 672, 685, 686, 687, 688, 
689, 803, 806, 807, 825, 826, 834, 835, 
837, 838, 901, 941, 968, 969, 970, 988, 
1078, 1162, 1193, 1282, 1303, 1320, 
1322, 1388, 1392, 1395, 1440, 1441, 
1589, 1594, 1632, 1747, 1748, 1755, 
1809, 1887, 2072, 2096, 2117, 2174, 



664 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



2194, 2295. 2330, 2343, 2344, 2345, 
2346, 2347i 2535, 2536, 2572, 2573, 
2585, 2630, 2645, 2672, 2673, 2674, 
2675, 2676, 2726, 2727, 2728, 2729, 
3071, 3138, 3139, 3244, 3287, 3373, 
3414, 3430, 3464, 3465, 3485, 3486, 
3755. 3804, 3818, 3912, 3942, 3943, | 
S959, 3960, 3982, 4013, 4014, 40S5, , 
4090, 4140, 4169, 4185, 4201, 4202, ' 
4203, 4204, 4205, 4230, 4293, 4294, 
4295, 4296, 4297, 4298, 4299, 4378, 
4436, 4437, 4441, 4511, 4532, 4534, 
4570, 4662. 4663, 4664, 4667, 4733, 
4746, 4747, 4761, 4762, 4763, 4764, 
4785, 4797, 4832, 4846, 4858, 4871, 
4938, 4943, 5062, 5063, 5102, 5109, 
5272, 5282, 5309, 5313, 5314, 5326, 
5351, 5372, 5373, 5374, 5375, 5376, 
5451, 5455, 5470, 5491, 5492, 5527, 
5570, 5673, 5674, 5686, 5719, 5720, 
5743, 5835, 5907. 

Crabbe, George, b. Aldborough, 
Eng., 1754; d. Trowbridge, Eng., 
1832. — 456, 673, 674, 718, 745, 766, 
904, 971, 4035, 4101, 4102, 4379, 4410, 
4411, 4412, 4413, 4414, 4438, 4456, 
4502, 4521, 4540, 4613, 4689, 4714, 
4750, 5116, 5118, 5163, 5675, 5696, 
5721, 5746, 5747. 

Croly, George, b. Dublin, Ireland, 
1780; d. I860.— 3336. 

Cunningham, Allan, b. Black- 
wood, Eng., 1784; d. London, Eng., 
1842. — 4399. 

Dana, Richard Henry, b. Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 1787; d. Boston, 
Mass., 1878. — 2893, 4822. 

Darwin, Charles, b. Shrewsbury, 
Eng., 1809; d. 1882. — 5013. 

Darwin, Erasmus, b. Newark, 
Eng., 1731; d. Derby, Eng., 1802.— 
3156. 

Denham, Sir John. b. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1615: d. Whitehall, 1668. 

— 454, 2186, 3691, 5187. 

Dodge, Mary Mapes. b. Hamil- 
ton, Mass., 1838; living. — 4910, 
4911. 

Dodsley, Robert, b. Mansfield, 
Ens., 1703; d. Durham, Eng., 1764. 

— 3713. 

Donne, John, D,D. b. London, 
Eng., 1573; d. London, Eng., 1631. 

— 4345,4816, 4997, 5320. 

Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley, b. 

Charleston, S. C, 1825; living.— 

410, 567, 2001, 3561, 5036, 5285, 5286, 

5294, 5295, 5899. 
Drake, Joseph Rodman. b. 

New York City, 1795; d. New York 

City, 1820. — 1697. 
Dryden, John. b. Aldwincle, 

Eng., 1631; d. Soho, Eng., 1701.— 



93, 135, 247, 335, 485, 581, 694, 795, 
852, 1291, 1337, 1424, 1618, 1619, 
1620, 1621, 1663, 1677. 1743. 1744, 
1812, 1893, 1949, 2074, 2077, 2151, 
2271, 2668, 2686, 2699, 2700, 2701, 
2888, 2889, 2890, 2891, 2892, 3027, 
3028, 3048, 3136, 3154, 3242, 3243, 
3392, 3441, 3510, 3564, 3790, 3797, 
3872, 3873, 3874, 3875, 3876, 3877, 
3939, 3940, 3941, 3956, 3957, 3963, 
3964, 4032, 4052, 4058, 4093, 4184, 
4211, 4212, 4237, 4490, 4501, 4557, 
4617, 4796, 4820, 4844, 4960, 5170, 
5336, 5357, 5367, 5439, 5440, 5466, 
5561, 5628, 5707, 5786, 5872. 

Duganne, Augustine Joseph 
Hickey. b. Boston, Mass., 1823; 
living. — 1514. 

Dyer, Sir Edward. b. Sharp- 
ham, near Glastonbury, circa 1540; 
d. 1607.-676,2169,4336. 

" Eliot, George " [Marian Evans 
Cross], b. Warwickshire, Eng., 
1820; d. London, Eng., 1880. — 327, 
598, 599, 755, 1329, 1573, 1850, 1894, 
2022, 2084, 2098, 2420, 2421, 2441, 
2749, 2906, 2907, 2908, 3200, 3513, 
3514, 3614, 3686, 3895, 4224, 4242, 
4350, 4803, 4839, 4878, 5043, 5325, 
5459, 5828, 5829. 5830, 5831, 5848, 
5849. 

Elliot, Ebenezer. b. Masborough, 
1781; d. near Barnsley, Eng., 1849. 
— 733, 2590, 4694. 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. b. 
Boston, Mass., 1803; d. Concord, 
Mass., 1882. — 185, 186,211, 348, 596, 
942, 1093, 1344, 1460, 1516, 1801, 
1805, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1862, 2131, 
2452, 2658, 2730, 2926, 3164, 3422, 
3468, 3469, 3603, 3604, 3605, 4121, 
4218, 4338, 4544, 4719, 4872, 4966, 
5245_, 5652. 

Erskine, Xord Thomas, b. Ed- 
inburgh, Scotland, 1750; d. Almon- 
dell, Scotland, 1823. — 5111. 

Faber, Frederick William, b. 

Durham, Eng., 1814; d. Brompton, 
Eng., 1863.— 2057. 

Fairholt, Frederick William. 
b. London, Eng., 1813; d. 1866.— 
5280. 

Falconer, William. b. Edin- 
burgh, Scot., 1732; shipwrecked 
near Cape Good Hope, 1769. — 
2647, 4505, 4577, 4578, 4661. 

Farquhar, George, b. London- 
derry, Eng., 1678 ; d. London, Eng., 
1707. — 853, 2894, 3310, 5068. 

Fenner, Cornelius G. b. 1822; d 
1847. — 4485. 

Fielding, Henry, b. Sharpham 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



065 



Park, Ens:., 1707; d. Lisbon, Spain, 
1754.— 1328. 

Fields, James Thomas, b. Ports- 
mouth, N. H., 1817; d. Boston, 
Mass., 1881. — 702, 868, 3014, 5414. 

Ford, John. b. Islington, Eng., 
1586: d. circa 1639. — 557, 3117, 
3176, 4499, 5276. 

Franklin, Benjamin [" Richard 
Saunders"]. b. Boston, Mass., 
1706; d. Philadelphia, Pa., 1790.— 
553. 

Francis, Phillip, b. Dublin, Ire- 
land; d. 1773. — 5656. 

Gallagher, William D. b. Phila- 
delphia, Pa., 1808; living. — 226. 

Gardiner. — 5011. 

Garrick, David. . b. Lichfield, 
Eng., 1716; d. London, Eng., 1779. 

— 810, 1673,4045. 

Garth, Sir Samuel, b. Bolam, 
Eng., circa 1670; d. London, Eng., 
1718. — 1266, 1973. 

Gay, John. b. near Barnstaple, 
Eng., 1688; d. London, Eng., 1732. 

— 121, 173, 194, 236, 367, 428, 828, 
900, 918, 1057, 1349, 1401, 1402, 1403, 
1404, 1405, 1647, 1693, 1712, 1719, 
1737, 1844, 1845, 1846, 1881, 1882, 
1963, 2115, 2124, 2225, 2251, 2291, 
2333, 2401, 2592, 2625, 2639, 2687, 
2703, 2763, 3015, 3052, 3053, 3239, 
3281, 3367, 3384, 3459, 3519, 3695, 
3926, 4022, 4037, 4089, 4136, 4329, 
4416, 4522, 4523, 4545, 4581, 4736, 
4744, 4784, 5048, 5101, 5315, 5323, 
5356, 5370, 5399, 5453, 5506, 5507, 
5541, 5605, 5606, 5627, 5659, 5739, 
5790. 

Gifford, Richard, b. 1725; d. 
North Okendon, Eng., 1807. — 3546, 
3547, 3819, 5469. 

Gilman, Caroline Howard, b. 
Boston, Mass., 1794 — 5009. 

Goldsmith, Oliver, b. Pallis, Ire- 
land, 1728; d. London, Eng., 1774. 

— 11, 98, 106, 198, 199, 207, 208, 370, 
509, 585, 586, 635, 682, 683, 684, 794, 

' 886, 931, 974, 977, 1229, 1271, 1367, 
1369, 1385, 1439, 1474, 1669, 1694, 
1715, 1786, 1794, 1852, 1853, 1888, 
1889, 1986, 2123, 2173, 2259, 2260, 
2275, 2440, 2456, 2596, 2629, 3016, 
3069, 3165, 3189, 3190, 3252, 3296, 
3380, 3785, 3786, 3787, 3929, 4027, 
4028, 4029, 4291, 4377, 4455, 4604, 
4704, 4745, 4760, 5312, 5464, 5543, 
5672. 

Gould, Hannah Flagg.b. Lancas- 
ter, Vermont, 1789; d. Newbury - 
port, Mass., 1865. — 4400. 

Grafton, Richard, d . circa 1573. 

— 3313. 



Grahame, James, b. Glasgow, 
Scotland, 1765; d. Glasgow, Scot- 
land, 1811.— 4383. 

Gray, Thomas, b. London, Eng., 
1716; d. Cambridge, Eng., 1771.— 
163, 1075, 1076, 1417, 1418, 1438, 
1936, 2353, 2713, 3068, 3359, 3590, 
4453, 4454, 4818, 5192, 5208, 5900. 

Green, AnnaKatherine. b. New 
York city, 18—; living. — 1331, 
1725, 2243, 2589, 2772, 301 3, 4551, 
4906, 5084, 5598. 

Green, Matthew, b. London (?), 
Eng., 1696; d. 1737. — 148S. 

Greene, Robert, b. Norwich (?), 
circa 1560 ; d. near Dowgate, 
Eng., 1592. — 1507, 1508, 1509, 2083, 
2137, 2276, 2338, 2765, 2979, 2980, 
2981, 2982, 2983, 3588, 3857, 5701, 
5832. 

Hale, Sarah Josepha. b. New- 
port, N. H., 1795 ; d. 1879.— 450, 462. 

Halleck, Fitz-Greene. b. Guil- 
ford, Conn., 1790; d. Guilford, 
Conn., 1867.— 1054, 2156, 3754. 

Harrington, Sir John. b. near 
Bath, Eng., circa 1561; d. 1612.— 
5330. 

Harte, Francis Bret. b. Albany, 
N.Y., 1839 ; living. — 372, 910, 3733, 
4123, 4710, 5350, 5409. 

Heber, Reginald. b. Malpas, 
Eng., 1783; d. Trichinopoly, India, 
1826.-2097,4492. 

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea, b. 
Liverpool, Eng., 1793; d. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1835. — 358, 1096, 2182, 2183, 
2459, 4831. 

Herbert, George, b. in Montgom- 
ery Castle, Wales, 1593; d. Bemer- 
ton, Wales, 1632. — 44, 195, 439, 510, 
1399, 1880, 2308, 2481, 2688, 3045, 
3681, 3878, 4005, 5064, 5308, 5363, 
5603, 5679, 5700. 

Herrick, Rohert. b. London, 
Eng., 1591; d. Dean Prior, Eng., 
1674. — 16, 65, 288, 289, 497, 533, 547, 
792, 793, 935, 1363, 1374, 1412, 1675, 
2547, 2869, 2870, 2871, 2872, 3312, 
3806, 4266, 4354, 4365, 4398, 4575, 
4576, 4603, 4892, 5075, 5135, 5136, 
5156, 5244, 5424, 5442. 

Hill, Aaron. b. London, Eng., 
1685; d. Plaistow, Eng., 1750.— 
3479, 5139, 5338, 5796. 

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, b. 
Cambridge, Mass., 1809; living. — 
248, 495, 647, 1524, 1699, 3318, 3369, 
3756, 3896, 4145, 4390, 4391, 4882, 
5022, 5742. 

Hood, Thomas, b. London, Eng., 
1798-9; d. London, Eng., 1845.— 
266, 267, 268, 374, 375, 605, 975, 1099, 



666 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



1100, 1192, 1296, 1452, 1883, 1965, 
2094, 2185, 2196, 2337, 2744, 2975, 
2976, 2977, 297S, 3144, 3145, 3161, 
3179, 3279, 3362, 3386, 3649, 3720, 
3821, 4227, 4381, 4382, 4835, 4866, 
4948, 5012, 5082, 5152, 5401, 5643, 
5S57. 

Howe, Julia Ward. b. New York 
city, 1819; living. -jr 656) 

Humphreys, David, b. Derby, 
Conn., 1753; d. New Haven, Conn., 
1818. — 4751. 

Hunt, Helen [Mrs. Jackson], b. 
Amherst, Mass., 1831; d. 1885.— 262, 
2489, 2995, 2996, 2997, 3095, 3155, 
3163, 3232, 3629, 3731, 4083. 

Ingelow, Jean. b. Ipswich, Eng., 
circa 1830; living. — 13, 117, 227, 
411, 648, 731, 736, 1535, 1574, 1767, 
2100, 2101, 2361, 2491, 2865, 2866, 
3238, 3254, 3255, 3411, 3595, 3624, 
3625, 4179, 4187, 4696, 4697, 47S0, 
4865, 5085, 5210, 5406, 5859, 5860, 
5909. 

Johnson, Rossiter. b. ; liv- 

ing.— 4119. 

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, b. Lich- 
field, Eng., 1709; d. London, Eng., 
1784.— 99, 242, 243, 27S, 820, 823, 
824. 865. 1189, 1286, 1319, 1575, 2071, 
2147, 2444, 2482, 2715, 2716, 2717, 
2718, 2719, 2767, 2768, 2769, 3428, 
3592, 3778, 3848, 3958, 4156, 4563, 
5200, 5259, 5303, 5608, 5692. 

Jones, Sir William, b. London, 
Eng., 1746; d. India, 1794. — 2632. 

Jonson, Ben. b. London, Eng., 
1573-4; d. London, Eng., 1637. — 
273, 326, 530, 848, 1206, 1710, 1789, 
1839, 1902, 1981, 2510, 2555, 2617, 
2618, 3305, 3306, 4362, 4500, 4553, 
4554, 4555, 4594, 4916, 4923, 527S, 
5281, 5322, 5353, 5445. 

Keats, John. b. London, Eng., 
1795; d. Rome, Italy, 1821. — 254, 
328, 1089, 2931, 3237, 3401, 3402, 3442, 
3531, 3566, 3609, 3682, 3913, 3914, 
4112, 4351, 4682, 4683, 5003, 5110, 
5392. 

Keble, John. b. Coln-St.-Ald- 
wynds, Eng., circa 1792 ; d. Bourne- 
mouth, Eng., 1866. — 4776. 

Kemble, Frances Anne. b. Lon- 
don, Eng., circa 1811; living.— 
2743. 

King, "William, b. London, Eng., 
1663; d. Lambeth, Eng., 1712.— 
3831. 

Kingslev, Charles, b. Dartmoor, 
Eng., 1819 ; d. Everslev, Eng., 1875. 
— 22, 230, 570, 708, 776, 790, 1144, 



1S84, 1975, 2559, 2742, 3125, 354L 
3542, 3950, 4341, 5584, 5676. 

Lansdowne, Lord [George Gran- 
ville], b. Bideford, Eng., 1667; d. 
London, Eng., 1735. — 1622, 2000, 
2471, 2553, 2917, 2918, 4312, 5619. 

Larcom, Lucy. b. Beverly Farms, 
Mass., 1826; living. — 2031, 2056. 
2391, 2493, 2494, 3615. 

Lee, Nathaniel, b. Eng., 1655; d 
London, Eng., 1692. — 297, 5585. 

Leland, Charles Godfrey. b. 
Philadelphia, Pa., 1824; living.— 
4887, 5209, 5875. 
i Linley, George, b. London, Eng., 
1798; d. France, 1865. — 6. 

Lof f t, Capel. b. 1751 ; d. 1824. — 85. 

Longfellow, Henry Wads- 
worth, b. Portland, Me., 1807; 
d. Cambridge, Mass., 1882. — 184, 
212, 213, 235, 263, 378, 380, 381, 382, 
3S3, 403, 404, 409, 460, 461, 589, 630, 
657, 709, 710, 711, 735, 778, 857, 858, 
1017, 1018, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 
1108, 1109, 1110, 1111, 1112, 1141, 
1213, 1338, 1345, 1373, 1375, 1436, 
1437, 1459, 1512, 1513, 1537, 1587, 
1588, 1633, 1634, 1635, 1674. 1727. 
1728, 1759, 1878, 1915, 1955, 1997, 
2009, 2010, 2081, 2163, 2164, 2277, 
2418, 2516, 2586, 2587, 258S, 2657. 
2735, 2736, 2737, 273S, 2739, 2773, 
2987, 2988, 2989, 2990, 3203, 3204, 
3329, 3330, 3331, 3352, 3364, 3450, 
3451, 3452, 3515, 3516, 3537, 3538, 
3539, 3589, 3606, 3607, 3650, 3651, 
3652, 3707, 3743, 3744, 3745, 3746. 
3747, 3759. 3760, 3761, 3762, 3826, 
3827, 3961, 3983, 4075, 4120, 4144. 
4221, 4222, 4223, 4271, 4272, 4342, 
4394, 4475, 4-176, 4529, 4530, 4624, 
4625, 4692, 4693, 4712, 4723, 4782, 
4804, 4805, 4S06, 4807, 4808, 4825, 
4881, 4903, 4904, 4905, 4947, 4989, 
5040, 5041, 5077, 5078, 5079, 5207, 
5229, 5249, 5250, 5300, 5385, 5586, 
5611, 5621, 5622, 5632, 5640, 5641, 
5670, 5813, 5814, 5815, 5861, 5880, 
5910, 5911. 

Lovelace, Richard, b. Woolwich 
Eng., 1618; d. London, Eng., 165S. 
— 1996, 4036. 

Lovell, Maria White, b. Water, 
town, Mass., 1821; d. Cambridge, 
Mass., 1853.— 5432. 

Lowell, James Russell, b. Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 1S19; living. — 371, 
618, 917, 1014, 1139, 1140, 1332, 1451, 
1550, 1593, 1947, 2029, 2282, 2496, 
2598, 2930, 3051, 3335, 3368, 3543, 
3617, 3729, 3749, 4333, 5021, 5083, 
5567, 5801, 5892. 

Lyttelton, Lord George. b 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



667 



Hagley, Eng., 1708-9; d. Hagley, 

Ens., 1773. — 347, 2257, 2258, 3135, 

580O. 
Macaulay, Thonias Babing- 

ton. b. Rothley Temple, 1S00; d. 

Kensington, London, Eng., 1S59. — 

1092. 
Macdonald, George, b. Huntlev, 

Scotland. 1S24; living. —4830, 5412, 

5642. 
Mackay, Charles, b. Perth, Eng., 

1814; d. 1889. — 4460, 4461, 5023, 

5390, 5825. 
Mallet, David, b. Crieff, Scot- 
land; d. London. Eng., 1765. — 

4513. 
Marlowe, Christopher, b. Can- 

terburv. Eng.. 1565; d. Deptford, 

Eng., 1593.-2141,2778. 
Martialis, Marcus Valerius, b. 

Bilbilis, Spain. 43; d. Bilbilis, 

Spain, 104. — 1114. 
Marvell, Andrew, b. Winestead. 

Eng., 1620; d. London, Eng., 1678. 

— 646,1215. 

Massinger, Philip, b. near Wilton, 
Eng.. 15S4; d. on the Bankside, 
1639-40.— 2279, 2304, 2373, 3118, 
3220, 3439. 3689, 3811, 4091, 4543, 
4918, 4975, 5776. 

Maturin, Charles Robert. b. 
Dublin, Ireland, 1782; d. Dublin. 
Ireland, 1S24.— 2064, 2065, 2413, 
2414. 4537. 4777. 

"Meredith, Owen" [Lord Ed- 
ward Robert Buhver Lvtton]. b. 
Herts. Eng.. 1831: living. —483. 
649, 1199. 1517, 1518, 1624, 1994, 
2032, 2082, 2086, 2422, 2469, 2628, 
2914, 2915, 3454. 4084. 4273. 4274. 
4602, 5168, 5169, 5206, 5850. 

Miller, "Joaquin " Cincinnatus 
Hiner. b. Indiana, 1840; living. 

— 704, 903, 1001, 1113, 1522, 1586, 
2550, 2577, 2741, 3240, 3608, 4600, 
4924, 5019, 5020. 

Milton, John. b. London, Eng., 
1608; d. London. Eng., 1674. —17, 
119, 120, 158, 295, 329,~330, 331, 332. 
416, 417, 418, 419, 537, 556, 574, 629, 
651, 669. 681, 756. 757, 809, 821, 833, 
850, 851. 979, 1050, 1051, 1129, 1130, 
1147, 1149. 1187, 1188, 1198, 1219, 
1257. 125^. 1279, 1311, 1362, 1421. 
1429. 1433. 1450, 1468, 1469, 1475, 
1476, 1540, 1563, 1564, 1683, 1684, 
1685, 1700, 1756. 1762, 1913, 1926, 
1945, 1948, 1969, 1991, 2023, 2024, 
2054, 2103, 2111, 2112, 2113, 2135, 
2142, 2145, 2239, 2240, 2241, 2323, 
2324, 2453, 2531, 2565, 2566, 2602, 
2603, 2607, 2666, 2667, 2697, 2755, 
2756, 2757, 2779, 3046, 3119, 3120, 



3121. 3160, 3177, 3236, 3246, 3261, 
3262, 3263, 3264, 3265, 3285, 3320, 
3342, 3343, 3403, 3440, 3475, 3484, 
3506, 3507, 3508, 3533, 3534, 3584, 
3585, 3666, 3685, 3739, 3772, 3795, 
3809, 3813, 3988, 4062, 4067, 4068, 
4088, 4142. 4176. 4283. 4284. 4310, 
4326, 4327, 4419, 4420, 4440, 4467, 
4463. 4556, 4726. 4753, 4754, 4946, 
5047, 5060, 5137, 5160. 5161. 5162, 
5226, 5364, 5477, 5505, 5540, 5601, 
5654. 5735, 5736, 5737. 5738. 5777, 
5778, 5779. 5843. 5870, 5913, 5914. 

Miscellaneous.— 2927, 3314, 3315, 
3316, 34S9, 4856, 5785. 

Moir, David 3Iacbeth. — 5542. 

3Iontague, Lady Mary TTortley. 
b. London, Eng., circa 1690 ; d. 
London, Eng., 1762. — 540, 550, 
1302, 4260, 4426. 

Montgoinerv, James, b. Irvine, 
Scot., 1771 : d. Sheffield, Eng., 1854. 

— 365, 1103, 1217. 1478, 1724. 2007. 
2008, 2184, 3087, 3366, 40u2, 4582, 
4912, 5004, 5025, 5026. 

Moore, Thomas, b. Dublin, Ire- 
land, 1779: d. near Devizes, Eng., 
1852. — 15, 376, 399, 400, 408, 518, 
526, 777, 912, 990, 1101, 1120, 1214, 
1231, 1232, 1265, 1295, 1442, 1443, 
1505, 1690, 1952, 2286, 2417, 2646, 
267S, 2733, 27:34, 2970, 2971, 2972, 
2973, 2974, 3143, 3337, 3363, 3417, 
3418, 3721, 3722, 3728, 4095, 4171, 
4219, 4261, 4352, 4775, 4994, 4995, 
5000, 5001, 5030, 5031, 5340, 5625, 
5820, 5821, 5878. 

More, Hannah, b. Stapleton, Eng.. 
1745; d. Clifton, Eng., 1833. — 5.-3, 
641, 1095, 1142, 1541, 1666. 171':, 17 
1791, 2076. 2231. 2478, 2538, 3S01, 
3996, 4086, 4535, 4536. 

Morris, George P. b. Philadel- 
phia, Pa., 1802 ; d. Xew York City, 
1864.-1698,4226, 5347. 

Mulock, Dinah Maria "Mrs. 
Craik]. b. Stoke-upon-Trent, Eng.. 
1826; d. 1^87.-1091. 

Xorton, CaroUne Elizabeth 
Sarah Sheridan. b. London, 
Eng., 1808; d. 1877. — 604, 3852, 
5417. 
I "Xotes and Queries." — 2754, 
2758, 5722, 5750. 

Oldmixon. — 5775. 
Otway, Thomas, b. Tottington, 
Eng., 1651; d. London. Eng., 1685. 

— 3013, 3047, 3740, 5784. 
Overbury, Sir Thomas, b. Corap 

ton Scorfen, Eng., 1531; d.Londoa 
Eng., 1613. — 3096. 



668 



IXDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Parnell, Thonias. b. Dublin, Ire- 
land, 1679; d. Chester, Ensr., 1717- 
18. — 2150, 33-47, 3518, 4285, 4755, 
5658, 5678. 

Pavne, John Howard, b. Xew 
York City, 1792; d. Tunis, Africa, 
1852. — 2i81. 

Peele, George. b. Devonshire, 
Eng., 1552-8; d. 159S. — 1636, 2919. 

Percival, James Gates, b. Ber- 
lin, Conn., 1795; d. Hazelgreen, 
Wis., 1856. — 1731. 

Percy, Bishop Thonias. b. 
Bridgenorth, Eng., 1728; d. Dros- 
nore, Eng., 1811. — 1795. 

Philips, Katherine. b. 1631; d. 
1664. — 1840, 1841. 

Phillips, John. b. Bampton. Ens., 
1676; d. Hereford, Eng., 1708.— 
253. 

Pike, Albert, b. Boston, Mass.. 
1S09; d. — 4877. 

" Pindar, Peter " [Dr. John Wal- 
cot]. b. Dodbrook, Eng., 1738; d. 
Somers' Town, Eng., 1819. — 132, 
532, 767, 1242, 2552, 3140, 315S, 3863, 
3864, 4137, 4141, 5055, 5269, 5394, 
5395, 5396, 5397, 5702. 

Pollok, Robert, b. Eaglesham, 
Scotland. 1799; d. Shirley Common, 
Eng., 1827.— 393, 639, 1585, 2334, 
2335, 2336, 2348, 4655. 

Ponifret, John. b. Luton, Eng., 
1667; d. London, Eng., 1703.— 
4258. 

Pope, Alexander, b. London, 
Eng., 1688; d. Twickenham, Eng., 
1744. _ 7, 8, 9, 10, 29, 40, 68, 95, 105, 
109, 123. 124, 137, 140, 155, 196, 197, 
200, 237, 274, 275, 276, 277, 339, 340, 
341, 388, 397, 407, 415, 420, 426, 429, 
441, 498, 504, 525, 539, 549, 565, 566, 
576, 5S2, 5S3, 5S4, 607, 608, 619, 632, 
633, 634, 671, 679, 717, 759, 760, 781, 
802, 804, 813, 814, 815, 816, 822, 8S1, 
908, 91i; 919, 920, 921, 922, 923, 924, 
925, 926, 927, 928, 1059, 1060, 1061, 
1062, 1063, 1064, 1138, 1207. 1222, 
1252, 1253, 1278, 1317, 1324, 1351, 
1352, 1353, 1359, 1364, 1394, 1406, 
1414, 1415, 1416, 1479, 1480, 1492, 
1495, 1496, 1497, 1528, 1543, 1566, 
1567, 1568, 1569, 1612, 1629, 1630, 
1678, 1711, 1733, 1734, 1749, 1750, 
1751, 1752, 1753, 1765, 1784, 1785, 
1848, 1886, 1896, 1932, 1933, 1950, 
1951, 1961, 1970, 1983, 1984, 2025, 
2026, 2068, 2078, 2079, 2090, 2122, 
2125, 2127, 2140, 2146, 2152, 2160, 
2161, 2193, 2226, 2227, 2252, 2253, 
2264, 2272, 2297, 2327, 2341, 2351, 
2376, 2384, 2390, 2447, 2448, 2449, 
2475, 2485, 2512, 2513, 2514, 2515, 
2569, 2570, 2571, 2593, 2597, 2608, 



2626, 2662, 2705, 2706, 2910, 291L 
2912, 3054, 3055, 3056, 3057, 3058, 
3059, 3060, 3061, 3062, 3063, 3064, 
3090, 3091, 3130, 3131, 3132, 3178, 
3223, 3225, 3226, 3231. 3248, - . 
3272, 3294, 3307. . 3317, 

3324. 3375, 3407, 340S, 340!', 3410, 
3444 ; 3445 ; 344,5, 3447. 3490, 3491, 
3520. 3553, 3591, 3636, 3668, 3074, 
3675, 3680, 3696, 3697. 3698, 3725, 
3751, 3789, 3816, 2, 3847, 

3879, 3S80, 3881, 3882, 
3885, 3886, 3S87. 3888, 389, 3890,' 
3891, 3892, 3977, 3978, 397!'. 
3990, 3991, 4009, 4023. 4024, 4025, 
4026, 4071, 4072, 4073, 4104, 4110, 
4118, 4150, 4151, 4152, 4153. 4181, 
4248, 4286, 4319, 4320, 4330, 4334, 
4347, 4369, 4370, 4371, 4374, 4376, 
4386, 4407. 4408, 4400. 4424. 4425, 
4457, 4473, 4504. 4506, 4512. 4528, 
4531. 4539, 4561, 45S4, 4596, 4597, 
4678, 4679, 4709, 4727, 4728, 4756, 
4757, 4849, 4850, 4S57, 4859, 4864, 
4920, 5049, 5056, 5057, 5105. 5106, 
5159, 5183, 5188, 5193, 5248, 5354, 
5368, 5369, 5402, 5403, 5441, 546S, 
5479, 5480, 5481, 5498, 5508, 5509, 
5510, 5511, 5512. 5513, 5514, 5544, 
5565, 5566, 5610, 5629, 56S0, 5708, 
5709, 5710, 5711, 5712, 5740. 5741, 
5791, 5792, 5793, 5794, 5795, 5883, 
5888, 5894, 5905. 

Pope, Dr. Walter. — 4515. 

Praed, Winthrop Macworth. b. 
London, Eng., 1802: d. London, 
Eng., 1839. — 2S4, 644, 775, 1097, 
2967, 2968, 3150, 3199, 3323, 3923, 
4207, 4208, 5443, 5789, 5904. 

Preston, Margaret Junkin. b. 
Lexington, Va., 1835 ; living. — 
2165, 3453, 3687, 4711, 5033, 5296 
5349. 

Prior, Matthew, b. near Wim- 
borne-Minster(?),1664; d.Wimpole 
Eng., 1721. — 396, 1310, 1420, 1426, 
1754, 2250, 2352, 2383, 2446, 2519, 
2532, 2638, 2904, 3128, 3358, 3406, 
3443, 3667, 3791, 3846, 4117, 5100, 
5478. 

Procter, Bryan "Waller [" Barry 
Cornwall"], b. London, Eng. ,1787 ; 
d. 1874. — 3092, 3159, 3449, 3497, 
3839, 4483, 4936, 5833. 

Rahelais, Francois, b. Chinon, 
France, 1483-95; d. Paris, France, 
1553. — 1210. 

Raleigh, Sir Walter. b. Bud- 
leigh, Eng., 1552; d. London, Eng., 
1618. — 110, 899, 2875, 4592. 

Read, Thomas Buchanan, b. 
Chester, Pa., 1822 ; d. Xew York 
City, 1872. — 260, 261. 






INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



669 



Rochester, Earl of (John Wil- 
mot). b. Ditchlev, Ens;., 1647; d. 
— 2533. 

Rogers, Samuel, b. Stoke Xew- 
inston, Eng., 1763 ; d. London, 
Ens:., 1855. — 56, 379, 1670, 1972, 
2362, 3146, 3196, 3197, 3198, 3419, 
3856, 43S0. 

Roscommon, Earl of (Wentworth 
Dillon), b. .Ireland, 1633; 

d. London, Eng., 1684.— 2030, 3295, 
3902, 4030, 5S45, 5346, 5889. 

Rossetti, Christina Georgiana. 
b. London. Em.'.. 1830; living. — 
701, 1726. 2240. 22S3. 3202, 3532. 4353, 
4593, 5413. 

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, b. Lon- 
don, Ens., 1S2S; d. London, Ens., 
1882.— 265, 2549, 3169. 

Rovre, Nicholas, b. Little Bar- 
ford, Ens.. 1673-4 : d. London, Ens., 
1718. — 337, 405, 427. 5SS. 606, 1052, 
1053, 1628, 2099, 2192, 2326. 2432, 
2470, 2534. 3127. 3222. 3648, 3712. 
3724, 4168, 4196, 4243, 4311, 4647, \ 
4648, 5275, 5317, 5562, 5725, 5782, 
5783. 

Ruskin, John. b. London, Eng., i 
1819; living. — 228, 2460, 3559, 3628. 
4572, 563S. 

Sangster, Margaret E. b. Xew 

Rochelle, N. Y., 1838; living.— 
259, 665, 5039, 5345. 

Saxe, John Godf rev. b. Hishsate, 
Vt., 1816; d. 1887. — 252, 336, 465, 
534, 1346,' 2080, 2546, 2630, 3012, 
3647, 3906, 3907. 

Schiller, Johann Christoph 
Eriedrich. von. b. Marbach, 
Germanv. 1759: d. Weirnar, Ger- 
manv, 1805. — 181, 210, 1002. 1102, 
2492,' 2876, 2377, 2878, 3586, 35S7, 
4195, 4241, 4526, 4628, 4629, 5042, 
5045, 5246, 5247, 5297, 5388, 5754, 
5755. 

Scott, Sir "Walter, b. Edinburgh, 
Scotland. 1771 ; d. Abbotsford, 
Scotland, 1832.— 73, 357. 394. 430, 517, 
666, 849, 999, 1094, 1133, 1157, 1530, 
1595, 1643, 1676, 1858, 1937, 1980, 
1993, 2138, 2179, 2261, 2325, 2539, 
2961, 2962, 2963, 2964, 2965, 3184, 
3205. 3288, 3289, 3563, 3727, 3779, 
3829, 3921, 3922, 4129, 4228. 4316, 
4357. 4470. 4507, 4569, 4686, 4939, 
4984, 5140, 5141, 5262, 5812. 

Se-weil, Dr. George, b. Windsor, 
Ens. ; d. Harnpstead, Eng., 1726. 
— 4976. 

Shakespeare, "William, b. Strat- 
ford -on- Avon, Eng., 1564; d. Strat- 
ford-on-Avon, Eng., 1616. — 1, 2, 4, 
5, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 32, 33, 



34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 

49, 50, 51, 52, 58. 
64, 67, 70. 71, 72. 
87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 
108, 111, 112, 113, 
143, 144. 145. 146. 
151, 153, 154. 156, 
165, 166. 167, 168, 
176. 177. 179, 180, 
204,205.. 
225, 231. 232. 285, 
307, 309, 31". ail. 
316, 317, 318. 319. 
324, 325. 366, 36S. 
387, 401, 414, 423. 
434, 435. 436. 437. 
445, 464, 466, 467. 
473.476,477.473.4; 
500, 511, 513, 514. 
524, 527, 523, 529. 
544, 545, 546. 554. 
561, 562, 563, 575. 
600, 601, 602, 603, 
621, 622, 623, 624. 
654, 655, 677. 713. 
721. 723, 724. 725. 
742, 744, 746. 74>. 
753, 754. ' - - 
785, 786. 737. 7-8. 
840, 841, 842, 843, 
859, 860, 861, 862, 
872, 873, 374, 875, 
888, 889, 890, 891, 
896, S97, 898, 906, 
916, 936, 937, 938. 
945, 947, 948, 949, 
954, 955, 956, 957, 
965, 966, 967, 972, 
994, 995. 996, 99; 
1005, 1006, 1007, 
1011, 1012, 1021, 
1025, 1026, 1027, 
1031, 1032, 1033, 
1037, 1038. 1039, 
1043, 1044. 1045. 
1115, 1118. 1121, 
1125, 1126, 

1146, 

1155. 

1167, 

1181. 

1201, 1202 

1212. 1218. 

1233. 1234. 
1239, 1243, 1244. 
1256, 1259, 1260. 

1272. 1276, 

12^5, 1288. 

1299, 1300, 
1307, 1325. 1326. 
1340, 1:341, 1342, 

1377, 1378, 

1383, 1391, 



41. 42, 46. 47. 43, 

59, 60, 61 . _ 

75,82, 83, 

92. 102, 104, 107, 

114, 115. 116, 139, 
149, 150, 
161, 164. 

169, 17-. 171. 175. 

191, 201, 202, 203, 

215. 216, 218, 224. 

312. 313. 314, 315. 
320, 321, 322, 323. 
369. 384, 385, 3^6. 
424, 425, 432, 433, 
440. 442, 443, 444. 
470, 472, 
'9.480,481,493.4-^6. 
519, 52u. 521, 522. 
535. 541, 542, 543. 
555, 558, 559, 560, 
i77 " 579, 580, 
612, 616, 617, 620, 
625, 626, 627, 623, 
714. 715. 716. 720, 
738. 739. 74i. 741, 
749, 750, 751. 752, 
770, 773. 774. 784. 
789, 811, 830, 831, 
B44, 845, 54 847 
863,867. 87 "1 
S76, 877, 878, 887, 



1137, 
1154, 
1166, 
1180, 

11-3. 
1211. 
1228. 



1270, 
1284, 
1298, 



1127, 
1148. 
1156, 
1170, 
1182. 



1376, 
1382, 



1423, 1446, 1447 



907, 909, 913, 
939, 940, 943, 
950, 951, 952. 
958, 959, 960, 
976, 991, 992, 
', 998, 1003, 
1008, 1009, 
1022, 1023, 
1028, 1029, 
1034, 1035, 
104), 1041, 
1046, 1047, 
1122. 1123. 
1128, 1135, 
1151, 1152, 
1163, 1164, 
1171. 1175, 
11S3 UH4 
1203, 1204. 
1220. 1221. 
1235 1236 
1245, 1250, 
1261. 12-54, 
1277. 1280. 
1289, 1290. 
1304. 1305, 
1334, 1336, 
1360, 1361. 
1379, 1380, 
1397, 1398. 
1443, 1449, 



915, 
944, 
953, 
964, 
993, 
1004, 
1010, 
1024, 
1030, 
1036, 
1042, 
1043, 
1124, 
1136, 
1153, 
1165, 
1177, 
1185, 
1205, 
1227, 
123<, 
1251, 
126^, 
1281 3 
]2j7, 
1306, 
1:339, 
1371, 
1381, 

1411; 

1454, 



670 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



1455, 


1456, 


1457, 


1461, 


1462, 


1463, 


2790, 


2791, 


2792, 


2793, 


2794, 


2795, 


1464, 


1465, 


1466, 


1467, 


1470, 


1471, 


2796, 


2797, 


2798, 


2799, 


2800, 


2801, 


1472, 


1481, 


1484, 


1485, 


1486, 


1491, 


2802, 


2803, 


2804, 


2805, 


2806, 


2807, 


1498, 


1499, 


1500, 


1501, 


1502, 


1503, 


2308, 


2809, 


2810, 


2811, 


2812, 


2813, 


1504, 


1526, 


1527, 


1531, 


1532, 


1533, 


2814, 


2815, 


2816, 


2S17, 


2818, 


2819, 


1534, 


1539, 


1546, 


1551, 


1552, 


1553, 


2820, 


2821, 


2822, 


2S-J3, 


2824, 


2825, 


1555, 


1556, 


1557, 


1558, 


1559, 


1560, 


2826, 


2827, 


2828, 


2829, 


2830, 


2831, 


1561, 


1591, 


1592, 


1598, 


1599, 


1608, 


2832, 


2833, 


2834, 


2835, 


2836, 


2837 ; 


1609, 


1614, 


1615, 


1616, 


1639, 


1640, 


2838, 


2839, 


2840, 


2841, 


2S42, 


2843, 


1641, 


1642, 


1645, 


1646, 


1648, 


1649, 


2844, 


2845, 


2846, 


2847, 


2S48, 


2849, 


1650, 


1652, 


1653, 


1654, 


1655, 


1656, 


2850, 


2851, 


2852, 


2853, 


2854, 


2855, 


1657, 


1658, 


1659, 


1660, 


1661, 


1667, 


2856, 


2857, 


2858, 


2859, 


2860, 


2861, 


1680, 


1681, 


1682, 


1696, 


1702, 


1703, 


2862, 


2863, 


2864, 


3019, 


3020, 


3021, 


1704, 


1705, 


1706, 


1707, 


1708, 


1709, 


3022, 


3023, 


3024, 


3025, 


3026, 


3029, 


1718, 


1720, 


1721, 


1738, 


1739, 


1740, 


3030, 


3031, 


3032, 


3033, 


3034, 


3035, 


1741, 


1742, 


1761, 


1771, 


1775, 


1776, 


3036, 


3037, 


3038, 


3039, 


3040, 


3041, 


1777, 


1778, 


1779, 


1780, 


1792, 


1793, 


3042, 


3043, 


3088, 


3089, 


3097, 


3098, 


1796, 


1810, 


1811, 


1813, 


1814, 


1815, 


3099, 


3100, 


3101, 


3102, 


3103, 


3104, 


1816, 


1817, 


1818, 


1819, 


1820, 


1821, 


3105, 


3106, 


3107, 


3108, 


3109, 


3110, 


1822, 


1823, 


1824, 


1867, 


1868, 


1869, 


3111, 


3112, 


3113, 


3114, 


3115, 


3151, 


1870, 


1871, 


1872, 


1879, 


1897, 


1898, 


3166, 


3167, 


3168, 


3173, 


3174, 


3175, 


1899, 


1900, 


1901, 


1906, 


1908, 


1909, 


3186, 


3187, 


3207, 


3208, 


3209, 


3210, 


1910, 


1911, 


1916, 


1917, 


1918, 


1919, 


3211, 


3212, 


3213, 


3214, 


82i5, 


3216, 


1927, 


1928, 


1939, 


1941, 


1942, 


1946, 


3217, 


3218, 


3224, 


3228, 


3230, 


3233, 


1954, 


1956, 


1957, 


1958, 


1959, 


1960, 


3234, 


3256, 


3257, 


3258, 


3259, 


3260, 


1967, 


1968, 


1977, 


1978, 


1979, 


1985, 


3267, 


3268, 


3271, 


3273, 


3274, 


3275, 


1987, 


1988, 


1989, 


1990, 


1999, 


2013, 


3276, 


3280, 


3283, 


3284, 


3292, 


3293, 


2014, 


2015, 


2016, 


2017, 


2018, 


2019, 


3297, 


3298, 


3299, 


3300, 


3319, 


3338, 


2020, 


2021, 


2036, 


2037, 


2038, 


2039, 


3339, 


3340, 


3341, 


3356, 


3357, 


3371, 


2040, 


2041, 


2042, 


2043, 


2044, 


2045, 


3381, 


3382, 


3387, 


3388, 


3389, 


3390, 


2046, 


2047, 


2048, 


2049, 


2050, 


2051, 


3394, 


3395, 


3396, 


3397, 


3398. 


3399, 


2052, 


2053, 


2066, 


2067, 


2069, 


2070, 


3400, 


3426, 


3429, 


3436, 


3137, 


3438, 


2087, 


2088, 


2089, 


2102, 


2105, 


2106, 


3470, 


3471, 


3472, 


3473, 


34S0, 


3481, 


2107, 


2108, 


2109, 


2110, 


2132, 


2133, 


3483, 


3499, 


3500, 


3501, 


3502, 


3503, 


2134, 


2162, 


2167, 


2188, 


2189, 


2190, 


3505, 


3530, 


3554, 


3562, 


3567, 


3568, 


2191, 


2197, 


2198, 


2199, 


2200, 


2201, 


3569, 


3570, 


3571, 


3572, 


35S1, 


3582, 


2202, 


2203, 


2204, 


2205, 


2206, 


2207, 


3583, 


3593, 


3632, 


3633, 


3634, 


3635, 


2208, 


2209, 


2210, 


2211, 


2212, 


2213, 


3637, 


3638, 


3641, 


3642, 


3643, 


3644, 


2214, 


2233, 


2234, 


2235, 


2236, 


2237, 


3645, 


3646, 


3655, 


3656, 


3658, 


3659, 


2238, 


2268, 


2269, 


2273, 


2274, 


2278, 


3660, 


3661, 


3662, 


3663, 


3664, 


3665, 


2287, 


2290, 


2305, 


2309, 


2310, 


2311, 


3673, 


3676, 


3677, 


3683, 


3684, 


3690, 


2312, 


2313, 


2314, 


2315, 


2316, 


2317, 


3692, 


3693, 


3699, 


3700, 


3701, 


3702, 


2318, 


2319, 


2320, 


2321, 


2322, 


2340, 


3703, 


3704, 


3705, 


3706, 


3708, 


3709, 


2349, 


2350, 


2357, 


2358, 


2370, 


2371, 


3710, 


3723, 


3734, 


3735, 


3736, 


3737, 


2377, 


2378, 


2379, 


2382, 


2393, 


2394, 


3738, 


3763, 


3764, 


3765, 


3766, 


3767, 


2399, 


2400, 


2406, 


2411, 


2412, 


2423, 


3768, 


3769, 


3770, 


3771, 


3798, 


3799, 


2424, 


2425, 


2426, 


2427, 


2428, 


2429, 


3800, 


3803, 


3805, 


3810, 


3812, 


3822, 


2430, 


2431, 


2436, 


2437, 


243S, 


2442, 


3823, 


3832, 


3833, 


3834, 


3843, 


3844, 


2443, 


2445, 


2450, 


2451, 


2454, 


2461, 


3865, 


3866, 


3925, 


3930, 


3932, 


3933, 


2462, 


2463, 


2464, 


2465, 


2466, 


2467, 


3934, 


3935, 


3936, 


3937, 


3938, 


3944, 


2468, 


2479, 


2480, 


2484, 


2498, 


2501, 


3945, 


3946, 


3947, 


3948, 


3949, 


3953, 


2502, 


2503, 


2504, 


2505, 


2506, 


2507, 


3954, 


3955, 


3970, 


3971, 


3972, 


3973, 


2508, 


2517, 


2520, 


2521, 


2522, 


2523, 


3985, 


3986, 


3987, 


4007, 


4008, 


4015, 


2524, 


2525, 


2526, 


2527, 


2528, 


2529, 


4016, 


4017, 


4018, 


4019, 


4020, 


4031, 


2530, 


2540, 


2541, 


2542, 


2543, 


2544, 


4034, 


4039, 


4040, 


4041, 


4042, 


4043, 


2545, 


2560, 


2563, 


2564, 


2579, 


2583, 


4046, 


4047, 


4048, 


4049, 


4050, 


4051, 


2584, 


2600, 


2601, 


2606, 


2609, 


2610, 


4053, 


4054, 


4059, 


4060, 


4064, 


4065, 


2611, 


2612, 


2613, 


2614, 


2615, 


2616, 


4066, 


4087, 


4097, 


4098, 


4099, 


4105, 


2635, 


2636, 


2648, 


2649, 


2650, 


2651, 


4106, 


4107, 


4113, 


4126, 


4146, 


4147, 


2653, 


2654, 


2655, 


2665, 


2682, 


2683, 


4157, 


4158, 


4159, 


4160, 


4161, 


4162, 


2684, 


2685, 


2690, 


2691, 


2692, 


2693, 


4163, 


4164, 


4172, 


4175, 


4177, 


4180, 


2694, 


2695, 


2696, 


2759, 


2762, 


2764, 


4182, 


4189, 


4190, 


4191, 


4192, 


4213, 


2774, 


2775, 


2776, 


2781, 


2782, 


2783, 


4214, 


4215, 


4231, 


4232, 


4233, 


4234, 


2784, 


2785, 


2786, 


2787, 


2788, 


2789, 


4235, 


4236, 


4237, 


4238, 


4245, 


4247, 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



671 



4249, 


4250 


4251 


4252, 


4255, 


4256 


4262 


4263, 


426S, 


4281 


4282 


4304, 


4307, 


4308 


4309 


4317, 


4322, 


4343 


4344 


4349, 


4373, 


4397 


4421 


4422, 


4447, 


4452 


4462 


4463, 


4478, 


4487 


4494 


4495, 


449S, 


4503 


4516 


4517, 


4527, 


4541 


4542 


4548, 


4564, 


4567 


4568 


4573, 


5333, 


4588 


45S9 


4590, 


4606, 


4607 


4608 


4609, 


4637, 


4638 


4639 


4640, 


4643, 


4644, 


4645, 


4657, 


4669, 


4670, 


4671 


4672, 


4675, 


4676 


4677 


4703, 


4715, 


4737 


4738 


4739, 


4742, 


4743 


4752 


4786, 


4789, 


4790 


4791 


4792, 


4795, 


4819 


4833, 


4836, 


4843, 


4854 


4855 


4863, 


4927, 


4928 


4940 


4941, 


4945, 


4949 


4950 


4951, 


4954, 


4961 


4962 


4963, 


4970, 


4971 


4972 


4973, 


4991, 


4992 


4993 


5024, 


5058, 


5065 


5066 


5067, 


5073, 


5074 


5088 


5089, 


5094, 


5095 


5096 


5097, 


5113, 


5117 


5119 


5120, 


5123, 


5124 


5125 


5126, 


5129, 


5130 


5131 


5132, 


5158, 


5165 


5166 


5179, 


5186, 


5189 


5190 


5191, 


5196, 


5202 


5203 


5218, 


5221, 


5222 


5223 


5224, 


5232, 


5233 


5234 


5235, 


5238, 


5239 


5240 


5241, 


5271, 


5277 


5292 


5305, 


5310, 


5316 


5318 


5321, 


5334, 


5335 


5352 


5358, 


5361, 


5418 


5419 


5420, 


5423, 


5430 


5431 


5433, 


5437, 


5438 


5446 


5447, 


5457, 


5458 


5463 


5465, 


5473, 


5474 


5475 


5476, 


5488, 


5493 


5494 


5495, 


5500, 


5501 


5502 


5503, 


5530, 


5531 


5536 


5538, 


5546, 


5547 


5548 


5549, 


5552, 


5553 


5554 


5555, 


5587, 


5588 


5590 


5594, 


5600, 


5602 


5612 


5613, 


5616, 


5617 


5618 


5630, 


5636, 


5655 


5664 


5677, 


5698, 


5699 


5723 


5724, 


5728, 


5729 


5730 


5731, 


5734, 


5751 


, 5756 


, 5757, 


5760, 


5761 


, 5762 


, 5763, 


5766, 


5767 


, 5768 


, 5769, 


5837, 


5838 


, 5839 


, 5840, 


5863, 


5864 


, 5865 


, 5866, 



4253, 


4254, 


4264, 


4265, 


4305, 


4306, 


4318, 


4321, 


4361, 


4372, 


4439, 


4444, 


4464, 


4465, 


4496, 


4497, 


4519, 


4520, 


4549, 


4550, 


4574, 


4587, 


4591, 


4605, 


4614, 


4636, 


4641, 


4642, 


4658, 


4659, 


4673, 


4674, 


4707, 


4708, 


4740, 


4741, 


4787, 


4788, 


4793, 


4794, 


4837, 


4838, 


4890, 


4891, 


4942, 


4944, 


4952, 


4953, 


4964, 


4969, 


4974, 


4983, 


5053, 


5054, 


5069, 


5072, 


5090, 


5093, 


5098, 


5112, 


5121, 


5122, 


5127, 


5128, 


5133, 


5134, 


5180, 


5181, 


5194, 


5195, 


5219, 


5220, 


5228, 


5231, 


5236, 


5237, 


5242, 


5243, 


5306, 


5307, 


5331, 


5332, 


5359, 


5360, 


5421, 


5422, 


5434, 


5436, 


5448, 


5456, 


5471, 


5472, 


5485, 


5487, 


5496, 


5499, 


5504, 


5529, 


5539, 


5545, 


5550, 


5551, 


5556, 


5557, 


5595, 


5599, 


5614, 


5615, 


5631, 


5635, 


5691, 


5697, 


5726, 


5727, 


5732, 


5733, 


5758, 


5759, 


5764, 


5765, 


5770, 


5771, 


5841, 


5862, 


5867, 


5868, 



5S69, 5881, 5884, 5885, 5887, 5893, 

5898, 5902, 5903. 
Sheffield, John [Duke of Bucking- 
ham], b. 1649; d. 1720. — 246, 2187. 
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. b. near 

Horsham, 1792 ; drowned in the 

gulf of Spezia, Italy, 1822. — 1419, 

1444, 2149, 3074, 3427, 3474, 3962, 

3966, 4323, 4999, 5304. 
Shenstone,Williani. b. Leasowes, 

Eng., 1714 ; d. Leasowes, Eng., 

1763.— 2439, 4701. 
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 

Butler, b. Dublin, Ireland. 1751; 

d. London, Eng., 1816.-3837,4109, 

4173, 5279, 5803, 5890. 
Shirley, James, b. London. Eng., 

circa 1594; d. St. Giles, Eng., 1667. 

— 31. 

Sidney, Sir Philip, b. Pensburst, 
Ens., 1554; d. Arnheim, Holland, 
1586. — 466S. 

Sigourney, X/vdia Huntley, b. 
Norwich, Conn., 1791; d. Hartford, 
Conn., 1863. — 3498. 

Sill, Edward Rowland, b. 1843; 
d. 1887. — 1079. 

Smith, Alexander. b. Kilmar- 
nock, Scotland, 1830 ; d. Wardie, 
Scotland, 1867. — 187, 458, 484, 1275, 
1386, 1434, 3148, 3334, 3511, 3616, 
3901, 5027, 5028, 5029, 5348. 

Smith, Elizabeth Oakes. b. 
Yarmouth, Maine, 1806; living. — 
1548, 4848. 

Smith, James and Horace. 
James Smith, b. London, Eng., 

1775; d. London, Eng., 1839. 
Horace Smith, b. London, Eng., 
1779; d. Tunbridge "Wells, Eng., 
1849. 
3424, 4033, 4883, 4884. 

Smith, Samuel Francis, b. Bos- 
ton, Mass., 1808; living. — 3758. 

Smollett, Tobias George, b. near 
Renton, Eng., 1721 ; d. Legborn, 
Italy, 1771. — 2386, 4968. 

Somerville, "William, b. Edston, 
Warwickshire, Eng., 1677; d. Wot- 
ten, Ens., 1742. — 2292, 2293, 2294, 
2671, 3802, 5426. 

Southern, Thomas, b. Dublin, 
Ireland, 1659-60; d. Westminster, 
Eng., 1746. — 122, 3835. 

Southey, Robert, b. Bristol, Eng., 
1774; d. near Keswick, Eng., 1843. 

— 306, 1098, 2166, 2285, 2381, 2969, 
3328, 3529, 4687, 5051, 5817, 5818, 
5908. 

Spenser, Edmund, b. London, 
Eng., 1553; d. London, Eng., 1599. 

— 234, 869, 1237, 2599, 2780, 3245, 
3282, 3355, 3952, 3969, 4364, 4635, 
5164, 5178, 5260. 



672 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Sprague, Charles, b. Boston, 
Mass., 1791; d. Boston, Mass., 1875. 

— 3487, 3488. 

Stedmaii, Edmund Clarence, b. 

Hartford, Conn., 1833 ; living. 

— 523, 594, 1358, 1422, 1625, 1874, 
2752, 4U74, 4538, 4621, 4874, 4988, 
5583. 

Stoddard, Richard Henry, b. 
Hingham, Mass., 1825; living. — 
141, 255, 256, 360, 645, 650, 797, 1016, 
1049, 1390, 1758, 2364, 2761, 2991, 
2992, 2993, 2994, 3458, 3560, 3620, 
3621, 3622, 3623, 3899, 4363, 4601, 
4630, 477S, 4812, 4813, 4814, 4879, 
5639, 5787. 

Suckling-, Sir John. b. Whitton, 
Eng., 1608-9 ; d. Paris, France, 
1641-2. — 978, 2873,2874. 

Swift, Jonathan, b. Dublin, Ire- 
land, 1667; d. Dublin, Ireland, 1745. 
— 1208, 1713, 2155, 2913, 3893, 4649, 
5389, 5535. 

Taylor, Bayard, b. Kennett Sq., 
Pa., 1S25 ; d. Berlin, Germany, 1878. 

— 229, 640, 703, 1489, 1519,1763, 
2551, 2679, 2732, 2884, 2885, 2886, 
2887, 3126, 3618, 3619, 3773, 3905, 
4220, 4269, 4611, 4627, 4933, 4965, 
5018, 5185, 5596. 

Tennyson, Alfred, b. Somersby, 
Eng., 1810; living. — 377, 499, 572, 
661, 67S, 734, 783, 1283, 1333, 1347, 
1425, 1490, 1523, 1544, 1545, 1770, 
1S76, 1905, 2232, 2307, 2419, 2504, 
2634, 2652, 2750, 2751, 2777, 2925, 
3049, 3050, 3370, 3495, 3548, 3718, 
3732, 3S45, 4003, 4044, 41S6, 4209, 
4210, 4514, 4623, 4626, 4809, 4810, 
4811, 4829, 5008, 5037, 5153, 5215, 
5217, 5486, 5558, 5559, 5690, 5749, 
5826, 5827, 5847. 

Thaxter, Celia Eaighton. b. 
Portsmouth, N. H., 1S35 ; living. — 
705, 3555, 4552, 5407, 5408, 5597. 

Thomson, James, b. Ednam, 
Scot., 1700; d. Kew, Eng., 174S. — 
515, 680, 696, 864, 1158, 1159, 1160, 
1268, 1301, 1354, 1384, 1407, 1435, 
1483, 1940, 2126, 2170, 2262, 2385, 
2472, 2473, 2594, 2605, 2627, 2707, 
2760, 2916, 2920, 3133, 3134, 3157, 
3325, 3348, 3460, 3461, 3492, 3535, 
3753, 3774, 3775, 3817, 3849, 3859, 
4124, 4128, 4246, 4259, 4287, 4288, 
4289, 4331, 4375, 4448, 4491, 4650, 
4660. 4680, 4700, 4732, 4847, 4861, 
4867, 4868, 4869. 4870, 4893, 4894, 
4929, 4930, 4985, 4998, 5014, 5015, 
5016, 5059, 5061, 5070, 5138, 5171, 
5172, 5173, 5290, 5398, 5404, 5449, 
5515, 5516, 5517, 5665, 5666, 5667, 
5668, 5669. 



Tickell, Thomas, b. near Carlisle, 
Eng., 1686; d. Bath, Eng., 1740.— 
1058, 3782. 

Tobin, John. b. Salisbury, Eng., 
1770; d. at sea, 1804.— 902." - 

Trowbridge, John Townsend 
b. Ogden, X. Y., 1827; living.— 
4717, 4718. 

Trumbull, John. b. Lebanon, 
Conn., 1750; d. New York City, 
1831. — 2633. 

Tuke. — 5780. 

Tupper, Martin Farquhar. b. 
London, Eng., 1810 ; d. 1889.— 240, 
241, 363, 449, 747, 1090, 1:348, 1365, 
1427, 1493, 1953, 2114, 2405, 2591, 
2659, 2660, 2661, 2731, 3002, 3003, 
3004, 3188, 3251, 3433, 4335, 4615, 
4779, 4840, 4841, 5284, 5299, 5324, 
5687, 5688, 5891. 

Tusser, Thomas, b. Rivenhall, 
Eng., 1515-23 ; d. London, Eng., 
1580. — 573, 659, 5634. 



Yaughan, Henry. b. Newton, 
South Wales, 1621 ; d. Newton^ 
South Wales, 1695. — 451, 452, 668, 
1015, 1687, 2681, 3072, 3073, 3201, 
3346, 3517, 3776, 3900, 3976, 3998, 
3999, 4000, 4122, 4127, 4197, 4385, 
4387, 4388, 4616, 4817, 4913, 4914, 
4915, 5346. 

Waller, Edmund, b. Coleshill, 
Eng., 1605; d. Beaconsfield, Eng., 
1687. — 134, 333, 1925, 2698, 3221, 
3871, 4355, 5851. 

Watts, Isaac, b. South Hampton, 
Eng., 1674 ; d. Theobalds, Eng., 
1748.-2402,2689,4702. 

Webster, John. b. circa 1570 ; d. 
1638. — 1929, 4061, 4278, 4917. 

W r elhy, Amelia B. b. St. Michaels, 
Maryland, 1821 ; d. Lexington, Kv., 
1S52. — 4135. 

White, Henry Kirke. b. Notting- 
ham, Eng., 1785 ; d. Cambridge, 
Eng., 1806. — 531. 

Whittier, John Greenleaf. b. 
Haverhill, Mass., 1807 ; living. — 
183, 209, 272, 587, 660, 737. 989, 1174, 
1197, 1200, 1458, 1623. 1730, 1760, 
1863, 1864, 1995, 2247, 2248, 2249, 
2497, 2509, 2747, 2748, 2903, 3075, 
3076, 3170, 3194, 3206, 3448. 3496, 
3752, 4012, 4078, 4079, 4080, 4081, 
4188, 4198, 4279, 4935, 4986, 4987, 
5030, 5031, 5032, 5261, 5381, 5653, 
5772, 5773. 

Wilde, Richard Henry, b. Dub- 
lin, Ireland, 1789 ; d. New Orleans, 
La., 1847.— 3291. 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



G73 



Willis, Nathaniel Parker, b. 

Portland, Me., 1S07 ; d. Idlewild, 

N. Y., 1867.— 839, 2984, 5748. 
Willson, Byron Foreevthe. b. 

Little Genesee, N. Y., 1837 ; d. 

Alfred Centre, N. Y., 1867. — 257, 

3904. 
Winter, William, b. Gloucester, 

Mass., 1836; living. — 118, 1875, 

2745, 2746, 4802. 
Wither, George, b. Brentworth, 

Ens;., 1588; d. London, Eng., 1667. 

— 663, 2396, 5005. 
Wolfe, Charles, b. Dublin, 1791; 

d. Cove of Cork, 1823. — 5589. 
Wood-worth, Samuel, b. Scitu- 

ate, Mass., 17S5 ; d. Xew York City, 

1S42. — 2180. 
Wordsworth, "William, b. Cock- 

ermoutb, Eng., 1770 ; d. Rvdal 

Mount, Eng., 1850. — 457, 642, 1323, 

1644, 1729, 1802, 1974, 2395, 3924, 

3967, 4134, 4633, 4852, 4900, 5151. 

Young, Edward, b. Upham, Eng., 
1684; d. Weliwyn, Eng., 1765.— 
3, 45, 76, 77, 162, 217, 219, 220, 238, 



239, 344, 406, 421, 


438, 508, 552, 719, 


743, 


805, 836, 930 


, 1066 


1067, 


1068, 


1069, 


1070, 


1071, 


1072, 


1073, 


1074, 


1168, 


1169, 


1209, 


1254, 


1327, 


1335, 


1487, 


1547, 


1571, 


1572, 


1668, 


1714, 


1745, 


1746, 


1851, 


1934, 


1935, 


1944, 


1964, 


1971, 


2011, 


2027, 


2058, 


2128, 


2172, 


2255, 


2256, 


2328, 


2329, 


2367, 


2368, 


2369, 


2407, 


2408, 


2409, 


2433, 


2474, 


2641, 


2642, 


2643, 


2644, 


2663, 


2709, 


2710, 


2711, 


2712, 


2922, 


2923, 


2924, 


3065, 


3066, 


3067, 


3250, 


3273, 


3361, 


3385, 


3435, 


3462, 


3463, 


3521, 


3522, 


3523, 


3524, 


3525, 


3726, 


3807, 


3830, 


3850, 


3851, 


3951, 


3981, 


3992, 


4038, 


4063, 


4114, 


4155, 


4199, 


4200, 


4216, 


4280, 


4290, 


4302, 


4332, 


4433, 


4434, 


4442, 


4443, 


4524, 


4525, 


4583, 


4652, 


4681, 


4758, 


4759, 


4823, 


4824, 


4851, 


4895, 


4922, 


4957, 


5052, 


5092, 


5204, 


5205, 


5251, 


5252, 


5253, 


5254, 


5255, 


5256, 


5257, 


5274, 


5291, 


5301, 


5302, 


5319, 


5355, 


5450, 


5482, 


5521, 


5522, 


5523, 


5524, 


5534, 


5568, 


5607, 


5681, 


5682, 


5683, 


5684, 


5685, 


5693, 


5694, 


5714, 


5715, 


5716, 


5717, 


5718, 


5752, 


5797, 


5798, 


5799, 


5874. 





INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



The references designate the numbers of the Quotations, and not the pages. 



Aaron's serpent, 274. 
Abatements and delays, 1167. 
Abridgment, of all that was pleasant, 

1889. 
Absence, death to those who love, 10. 

I wept thy, 15. 

makes the heart grow fonder, 14. 

of occupation is not rest, 2344. 

the pangs of, 3712. 

their preciousness in, 2659. 
Absolution, some begged for, 4579. 
Abstinence, the defensive virtue, 16. 
Absurdity, a passion for, 1745. 
Abyss, cares little into what, 2063. 
Accents of reproof, 5371. 
Accident, the unthought-on, 21. 
Accidents, our wanton, take root and 

grow, 22. 
Account, sent to my, 23. 
Accurate, to be, write, 5891. 
Aching backs and frozen feet, 5584. 
Acting of a dreadful thing, 913. 
Action, each rests on the foregoing, 
589. 

pleasure and, make the hours 
seem short, 27. 

some place the bliss in, 29. 

the intent of every noble, 28. 

the time calls for, 5566. 

to-morrow's, 5303. 

withdraw thy, 4212. 
Actions, of the just, 31. 

our necessary, 4640. 

prodigious, may be done, 2151. 

thy, to thy words accord, 5364. 
Active on the side of truth, 5720. 
Actor, like a dull, 1761. 

without rival, 1889. 
Adam and Eve, the son of, 1420. 

the offending, 769. 
Adder, is the, better than the eel, 1299. 
Adieu, drop a tear and bid, 3713. 

my native shore, 43. 

thy plaintive anthem fades, 3531. 
Adonis, painted by a running brook, 

205. 
Advancement, may I hope, 1703. 
Advantage feeds them fat, 3662. 
Adversary, a stony, 936. 

of God and man, 4419. 



Adversity breeds discontent, 2869. 

sweet are the uses of, 49. 

wretched soul, bruised with, 6?.. 
Advice, it brings danger, to give, to 

kings, 65. 
Affairs, mutter their, 4676. 
Affectation, I loathe all, 69. 

voice spoilt by, 4618. 

with a sickly mien, 68. 
Affection is a coal that must be 
cooled, 71. 

master of passion, 160. 

some tribute of, 3185. 

stirs her spirit up, 5818. 

the seat of our, 3176. 

warm and faith sincere, 1417. 

wondrous sensible, 3701. 
Affections dark as Erebus, 3398. 

war against your, 4519. 

your, are a sick man's, 3936. 
Affliction alters, 4059. 

is a mother, 4817. 

is enamored of thy parts, 514. 

is the good man's shining scene, 
77. 

of all, taught a lover, 9. 
Afflictions, these severe, 4806. 
Affronts, young men soon forgive, 79. 
After-hours give leisure, 4238. 
Age, a second child, 3653. 

and clime, in every, 5315. 

and youth cannot live together, 
1260. 

as proper to our, 3646. 

cannot wither her, 90. 

is opportunity no less, 3651. 

not of an, 4554. 

of virtuous politics, 3755. 

one poor minute in an, 2651. 

pity this miserable. 4160. 

rock the cradle of, 3697. 

sits with decent grace, 3648. 

soul of the, 4553. 

talking, and whispering lover6, 
2123. 

that melts with unperceived 
decay, 99. 

the labor of an, 4556. 

thou art ignorant by, 1739. 

tc add greater honors to his, 1411 



676 



IX BEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Age, to come my own, 1562. 

to shake all cares from our, 3W.i. 

trembling with eagerness and, 94. 

we feel it even in, 2174. 

what is the worst of woes that 
wait on, 101. 

when is in, wit is out, 82. 
Agent, trust no, 540. 
Ages elapsed ere Homer, 3244. 

through the, 4U44. 

we climb above all, 4385. 

yet unborn, 961. 
Agonies, fiercest have shortest reign, 

727. 
Agony, all we know, or dream, or 
'fear of, 1054. 

unmixed, 2472. 
Aim, a secondary, 4957. 

his, was mischief, 4169. 
Air, a dewy freshness fills the silent, 
3529.' 

a sound is in the, 5645. 

an echo left to, 5591. 

blue wilderness of, 4897. 

breasts the keen, 3786. 

content to breathe his native, 4286. 

filling the. with sweetness, 1728. 

footsteps light as, 5294. 

full of hints of grief, 5410. 

is full of farewells, 4S05. 

mock our eyes with, 4587. 

no stir of, was there, 4112. 

no waftings in the sunny, 3625. 

out of the bosom of the.' 4723. 

supplies of constant, 5560. 

the, a chartered libertine, 1361. 

the bitter-sweet, haunting, 5652. 

the common, 3993. 

the, is white, 4720. 

the, of summer, 4989. 

their fronded palms in, 4078. 

the fields of the, 3333. 

the, is all perfume, 3161. 

with the, hold discourse, 3026. 

unseen currents of the, 5646. 
Airs, discords make the sweetest, 1240. 

from heaven or blasts from hell, 
1911. 

that hover in the skv, 3780. 

through the thick, 5666. 
Alacrity of spirit, 3643. 
Alarm," tolled their last. 3757. 
Alarms, dwell in the midst of, 4764. 
Alas ! for the rarity, 605. 
Alas! poor chin, 307. 
Albion's lessening shores, 1477. 
Alderman, he felfon what was offered 

like an, 1223. 
Alexandrine, a needless, 105. 
Alive, that he's, 5429. 
All are but parts of one whole, 1950. 

are men condemned to groan, 4818. 

chance, direction, 565. » 

earth forgot, 4775. 



All faiths all worlds, 4079. 

Mesh is grass, h;7S. 

hail, all harm, 5335. 

hope is lost, 1188. 

is vanity, 5452. 

made lor one, 3000. 

may do what has been done, 3951 

men think all men mortal, 3361. 

nature is but art, 565. 

other things give place, 3926. 

that's bright must fade, 2733. 

that glisters is not gold, 170. 

that lives must die, 1028. 

that's sweet was made, 3363. 

that tread the globe, 1020. 

the regions do revolt, 4163. 

the rest have thirty-one, 3313. 

things are passing, 3746. 

things differ, 3675. 

which is real remaineth, 4080. 
All's not offence, 3635. 

to be feared where all is to be 
gained, 551. 
Alliance, they purchase great, 5419, 
Alone, amid this world, 4732. 

I am left, 47^2. 

on earth, 101. 
Alps and archipelagoes, 700. 

back to the joyous, 5176. 

on Alps arise, 3375. 

the ridges of the, 1150. 
Altar crowns the hills, 5032. 
Altar-stairs that slope up to G-od, 

1544. 
Altars, my, are the mountains, 3467. 
Amazement on thy mother sits, 107. 
Amber, to observe the forms in, 109. 
Ambition can destroy or save, 123. 

fling away, 111. 

has but one reward for all, 118. 

is an idol, 122. 

never gains its, 121. 

there alone resides, 125. 

to make them more. 1896. 

to reign is worth, 119. 

vaulting, which o'erleaps itself, 
114. 

what will not, and revenge de- 
scend to, 120. 
Ambition's hand, 5092. 
America! half-brother of the world, 
133. 

poor lost, 132. 
Amitv, how should so many people 
hold, 1239. 

that wisdom knits not, 1818. 
Amorous effects, 5604. 
Amours, a lover burns in all, 2880. 
Amos Cottle, 829. 

An easy thing to write and sing, 3900. 
Anchor, where the, is hidden, 1674. 
Ancestors, the spade, the plough, 

disturb, 1335. 
Ancient of days, 223. 



TXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



And thou art dead, 1086. 

Angel, a guardian, o'er his life, 3146. 

like the patriarch's, 4l)12. 

of light, 4 

his name is Freedom, 1S04. 

on the outward side, 3029. 

she is an, 139. 
Angel-visits, few and far between, 142. 
Angel's, her, face is foul beneath, 4196. 
Angels and ministers of grace, 1465. 

are happier than mankind - 

by that sin fell the, 111. 

come and go, 141. 

could no more. 3. 

fear to tread, fools rush in where, 
140. 

few men are, 3034. 

our acts are, or good or ill, 30. 

the forget-me-nots of the, 4905. 
Angels' faces, ye have, 1383. 
"wings, wafted on, 39S9. 
Anger at peace, 1091. 

is like a fuil-hot horse, 144. 

of the wise, 424S. 

more in sorrow than in, 1532. 

never made, good guard for itself, 
146. 

of a satiric spirit, 1206. 

touch me with noble, 5130. 

that carries, as the flint bears fire, 
150. 

unappeasable, still rages, 2113. 
Anger's my meat, 143. 
Angle, give me mine, 156. 
Angling, the pleasantest, 154. 
Anguish and consuming rage, 2473. 

must be felt, 4243. 

of patience, 4272. 
Animal, each, spares his kind, 5426. 

man is a strange, 30S4. 
Anthems, the sound of, 5343. 
Antipathies, odd perverse, 4010. 
Antiquity was young, 3622. 
Apathy, 'in lazy, 3816. 
Apennine, where, extends, 2456. 
Apennines, vour peaks are beautiful, 

3374. 
Apollo's sons repair to the desk, 3424. 
Apostles would have done, 393. 
Apothecary, I remember an, 3S23. 
Apparition, tale of horrid, 5091. 
Appeal, God to whom I, 4020. 
Apparel oft proclaims the man, 129S. 
Appearance, thou hast a grim, 1533. 
Appearances, to save, his only care, 

172. 
Appetite, a sick man's, 3936. 

good digestion wait on, 176. 

grown by what it fed on, 70. 

looking wrong and right to, 2616. 

stands cook, 178. 
Applaud, I would, to the very echo, 
179. 

the deed, 4494. 



Applause, oh, popular, 3942 

the sole pro; i 

then loud, ■ 
Apples, how we, swim, 4513. 
Apprehensi' ■: . . _ ■ you for this, 

'521V. 
April, cold with dropping rain. 185. 

come up, through the valley, 190. 

day, the glory of an, 27 

showers, the "tassels of the maple 
in, 183. 

sweet, 154. 
April's tears dead on the hem of May, 
157. 

violets, 3095. 
Arabian night, 12. 

Arabs, fold' their tents like the, 1436. 
Arbitrement, aloof from strict, 3632. 
Arbors hide the glassy floor, 2339. 
Arcades ambo, 413. 
Arch, look on its broken, 4632. 

triumphal, 4133. 
Archangels, eloquence shall throne 

man with. 1365. 
Architect who built the skies, 5373. 
Argue, he could, though vanquished, 

106. 
Arguing, be calm in, 195. 

in, the parson owned his skill, 199. 
Argument, by force of, 193. 
"the height of this. 4 -. 

the staple of his. 5471. 
Arm-chair, loving that old. 3195. 
Armor and ashes reach, 4515. 

worn in heat of day, 2524. 
Armorers, now thrive the, 5547. 
Arms stretched in prayer, 5348. 

are fair, 5546. 

that glitter in the air, 5575. 

the nurse of, 1385. 
Army, an, of good words, 5094. 

of the world's desires, 4519. 
Arrogance, O monstrous, 50SS. 

supple knees feed, 4018, 
Arrow, an, for the heart, 1368. 

I have shot mine, 20. 

into the air, 241S. 

from the Tartar's bow, 5069. 
Arrows, love's, are tipped with gold, 
2882. 

scattered golden, 5018. 
Art and industry, what cannot, 5458. 

each grace of, 5692. 

hath thus decreed, 204. 

how vain is, 2644. 

in the elder days of, 1955. 

is long, time is fleeting, 2010. 

lovely the works of, 3465. 

is the child of ^Nature, 212. 

may trace the absent feature, 4537 

the first professor of our. 3572. 

the gloss of, 4604. 

the, of our necessities -3471. 

the source and end of, 3447= 



678 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Art the, to blot, 3889. 
Arteries, spirits in the, 4953. 
Artillery, heaven's, 5158. 
Artist, he is the greatest, 213. 
Arts, furnished out with, 3941. 
As for my wife, 5734. 

you sow y'are like to reap, 548. 
Ask if peace be there, 4379. 

where's the north, 3553. 
Aspersion is the babbler's trade, 5109. 
Aspiration lifts from the earth, 214. 
Aspirations, our, to be great, 4898. 
Assassination, damned, 3391. 
Assault, death preparing his, 5252. 
Assistance, flies to an equal for, 904. 
Assume a virtue, 5504. 
Assurance, I'll make, double sure, 215. 
Astronomer, an undevout, is mad, 

219. 
Astronomy, devotion, daughter of, 

219. 
Atheism, cries out, "where is it?" 

221. 
Atheist, a female, talks you dead, 2768. 

by night an, half believes a God, 
220. 
Atheists in a gown, 4443. 
Athena, august, 223. 
Athens, Rome, virtue, and stuff, 2646. 
Atmosphere, cramped with cold, 4869. 

in earth's dull, 5294. 

of dreams, 5417. 

the, breathes rest, 5621. 
Atoms make a play, 3877. 

or systems, 1951. 
Attachment to the well-known place, 

2174. 
Attack, every man perceives an, 4438. 
Attempt the end, 1374. 
Attendance, no, no regard, 5539. 
Attention, memory, the daughter of, 
3188. 

hung upon his lips, 1366. 

wears the active mind, 3249. 

wears the mind, 4956. 
Attire, wild in their, 5724. 
Attorney, the fell, prowls for prey, 

2768. 
Attorneys, vile, an useless race, 388. 

windy, 5838. 
Attributes, heaven's jarring, 2407. 
Audience, stories end without, 2775, 
Audit, and how his, stands, 24. 

how his, stands, 224. 

I can make my, 224. 

whoso seeks an, here, 826. 
August days are long, 4988. 

is flinging round her precious 
gifts, 228. 
Aureole of a saint, 5041. 
Aurora's bed, the curtains from, 1004. 

light, rising with, 3893. 
Author and disposer, 3585. 

fond of his own thought, 247. 



Author, no, ever spared a brother, 236. 

none but an, 245, 

scope and purpose of an, 1206. 

that's all author, 250. 

'tis a venerable name, 238. 
Authority and show of truth, 4609. 

drest in a little brief, 231. 

intoxicates, 233. 

on the winking of, 863. 

thou mightst behold the image of, 
232. 

wrest the law to your, 2501. 
Authors, mummied lie the, 2679. 

6ay, and poets sing, 3132. 
Authorship, great is the dignity of, 
240. 

rare is the worthiness of, 
Autumn blaze of golden rod, 262. 

chilling, angry winter, 4039. 

divinest, who may paint thee, 255. 

fruit, he fell like, 93. 

fruit-laden, 271. 

hath blown, 301. 

hence we mistake our, 5255. 

how bravely, paints upon the sky, 
268. 

I saw, in the misty morn, 267. 

is here, 3627. 

leaves lie dead, 3556. 

scatters departing gleams, 5059. 

such a kindly, 270. 

thy bounty shines in, 4491. 

wins you best, 258. 

wheezy, sneezy, freezy, 4493. 
Autumnal air, 286. 

leaves that strow the brooks of 
Vallombrosa, 17. 
Autumn's earliest frost, 272. 

sighing, 261. 

vacant throne, 3560. 
Avarice creeping on, 822. 

I think I must take up, 280. 
Avon, sweet Swan of, 4555. 
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen, 

1468. 
Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, 281. 
Ay, but to die, and go we know not 
where, 1025. 

Babe, a testy, 2785. 

a well-spring of pleasure, 2405. 

to be hailed and wooed, 2744. 
Babes, those that do teach, 621. 
Baby, a foolish, 3079. 
Bacchus pours out wine, 2949. 
Bachelor, a, may thrive on a little, 557. 
Bacon hangs up for a show, 4029. 
Bad begins and worse remains behind^ 
938. 

better for being a little, 3030. 
Bales unopened to the sun, 5205. 
Ballet-master in the van of hie 

nymphs, 980. 
Ball, I saw her at a, 284. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



679 



Balls, the race and county, 1432. 

Balm of hurt minds, 4671. 

Band, a melancholy, 1369. 

Bands, strong as iron, 4712. 

Bank where the wild thyme blows, 

1721. 
Banks, joint-stocks, flimsy schemes, 

4835. 
Banner in the sky, 1699. 

like a, free, 4132. 
Banquet, a splendid, 4027. 

and the ball, 987. 
Barberries lean in thin autumnal air, 

286. 
Bard sits down to muse, 3923. 
Bark, with thee, my, 3715. 
Base is the slave who pays, 4659. 
Bashful men, I pity, 290. 
Bashfulness, lay aside, 289. 

so sweet the blush of, 291. 

the eyes express, 288. 
Bastions, curves his white, 1862. 
Battalions, sorrows come in, 4793. 
Batteries, did bend their, 4635. 
Battle, blow, bugles of, 660. 
Battlement, the ruined, 4366. 
Battles, two dreadful, 754. 
Battlefield, portrait of one, 5572. 
Be just and fear not, 3770. 

true to God and thy friend, 4616. 
Beams, his golden, 5011. 
Bear-like, I must fight the course, 1180. 
Bear, the rugged Russian, 842. 
Beard, his tawny, 308. 
Beast of prey, any interesting, 5804. 
Beauties, blind to all apparent, 1403. 

disposed to sleep, 4689. 

her, do renew, 2765. 

one that composed your, 3693. 

their eyes may roll, 3226. 

we see just, 4923. 
Beautiful cloud, 698. 

she's, and therefore to be wooed, 
317. 

the, are never desolate, 343. 
Beauty, a smile and eloquence of, 
3457. 

a thing of, is a joy, 328. 

a woman's eye teaches, 311. 

all around our paths, 358. 

all things of, 336. 

always keeps a cottage, 3923. 

blemished once, is forever lost, 
325. 

doth make women proud, 5764. 

doth persuade the eyes of men, 
323. 

draws us with a single hair, 2079. 

faults conspicuous grow in, 1404. 

find a welcome sovereignty, 333. 

her, hangs upon the cheek of 
night, 318. 

if she unmask her, 3319. 

infect her, 949. 



Beauty, in the rolling clouds, 363. 

is a witch, 1814. 

is but a vain and doubtful good, 
322. 

is its own excuse for being, 348. 

is nature's brag, 329. 

is nature's coin, 330. 

is slain, 575. 

is truth, truth beauty, 5392. 

Italia, thou who hast, 2457. 

it blots thy, 1531. 

like the fair Hesperian tree, 331. 

like wit, 347. 

mar the face of, 4858. 

needs not the flourish of praise, 
310. 

oh, how much more doth, 309. 

one, mortifies others, 1751. 

pictured in his mind, 2362. 

pure and lofty, 362. 

she had a pensive, 327. 

she walks in, 356. 

shines forth in the trees, 4885. 

should not be wasted, 5239. 

soon grows familiar to the lover, 
338. 

stands in the admiration, 332. 

the earth is drowned in, 363. 

the essence of all, 346. 

the lines where lingers, 1119. 

the spirit of all, 1331. 

thy, is proposed my fee, 2827. 

'tis not a lip or eye, 339. 

titles, wealth and fame, 1415. 

too rich for use, 318. 

truly blent, 738. 

'twas an evening of, 2497. 

upon the altar of her, 875. 

what is, 361. 

what is this thought or thing, 345. 

what's female, 344. 

whose red and white, 315. 

without the smile from, 359. 
Beauty's akin to death, 342. 

cheek, smoothness of, 5184. 

cheek, who can behold, 350. 

child, 324. 

heavenly ray, 351. 

veil covers every blot, 5476. 
Bed, born in, we die in, 364. 

maker of the dead man's, 4547. 
Bedfellows, strange, 3273. 
Bee, murmur of the, 4990. 

the murmuring, 5C46. 
Beefsteak, best of remedies is, 4484. 
Beer, chronicle small, 1742. 
Bees are murdered for their pains. 
1957. 

cease their hum, 5625. 

so work the, 366. 

your words rob the, 5066. 
Beetle, the, that we tread upon, 1026 
Beg, you taught me first to, 4047. 
Beggar, a, that is dumb, 4592. 



680 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Beggar, from the king to the, 4543. 
" how a, should be answered, 1326. 

through the world am I a, 371. 

was his gue6t, 370. 
Beggared by fools, 4844. 
Beggars mounted, 369. 
Beggary in love, 2830. 

there is no vice but, 368. 
e good, sweet maid, 3542. 
Behold the child, 632. 
Being, a, darkly wise, 3055. 

a lovely, 636. 

6trange state of, 4665. 
Belial, sons of, 3506. 
Bell, he heard the convent, 381. 

it is the convent, 378. 

of Atri, 383. 

the Sabbath, 379. 

the, sleeps in the belfry, 4699. 
Belle, the, is in a flutter, 5443. 
Belles had faults to hide, 341. 
Bells, are the best of preachers, 382. 

church, but ring us to the door, 
383. 

how soft the music, 373. 

of Heaven ring, 4621. 

those evening, 376. 

how sweet the sound of, 375. 

of the convent, 380. 

to the tune of the, 374. 
Below, man wants but little here, 794. 
Benedictions, oftentimes celestial, 



Berries thrive and ripen, 4941. 

two lovely, 626. 
Best and worst of thee, 5816. 

men moulded out of faults, 4232. 

who does the, 3. 
Bestial, what remains is, 4251. 
Bethlehem, hail to the king of, 657. 
Better to leave undone, 1561. 

to weep at joy, 5072. 
Beverage, a sad, sour, 3141. 
Beware of desperate steps, 1193. 
Billows, flinging back the, 5071. 

turbulent, roar, 1358. 
Bird, a sweet melodious, 5306. 

of the golden wing, 523. 

no further than a, 3708. 

pensive note of, 5035. 

put into a cage, 4500. 

that shunnest the noise, 3533. 

which feeds on cinnamon, 2361. 
Birds are darting by, 3344. 

beasts, all things adore, 3976. 

charm of earliest, 3342. 

choose their mates, 5442. 

did sing to lap me in content, 797. 

great nature's happy commoners, 
405. 

have sung their last, 3558. 

learn from the, 2449. 

would sing, 1449. 
Birth, I had concealed thy, 4022 



Birth, let high, triumph, 406. 

noble by, 3537. 

some glory in their, 2860. 

whatever his fortunes or, 3540. 
Birthday, a day that rose, 411. 

is that a, 407. 

my, how many years, 410. 

my, what a different sound, 408. 

this is my, 409. 
Birthright, these are your, 594. 
Bitterness, tumour natures into, 2470. 
Blackbirds, again the, siny, 183. 
Blackguards both, 413. 
Blame where you must, 931. 
Blasphemer, escape the rod, 415. 
Blast, I hear the rushing of the, 3093. 

who shall face the, 51G7. 
Bless thee, Bottom, 5318. 
Blessed who ne'er was born, 3358. 
Blessedness, 6ingle, 555. 
Blesseth him that gives, 3214. 
Blessing, prayers bring a, 4001. 

precarious is the, 5739. 

would you have each, 5111. 
Blessings, a world of earthly, 5074. 

are abused, 1963. 

the dawn of Christ is beamings 
662. 

wait on virtuous deeds, 1145. 
Blind to our own errors, 1647. 
Blindness to the future, 1629. 
Bliss is the same in subject or in king, 
420. 

kiss rhymes to, 2556. 

of loving thee, 4783. 

or woe, 1685. 

who falls from all he knows of, 
1194. 
Blockhead, the bookful, 3789. 
Blocks are cleft with wedges, 4958. 
Blood, a man whose, is snow-broth, 
164. 

and judgment commingled, 1780. 

burns, when the, 2845. 

for blood, 4654. 

is spilt, 3691. 

make thick my, 4097. 

my, is liquid flame, 4316. 

my, speaks to you, 2816. 

never dies, 3393. 

one drop of, 4159. 

the base of all things is, 5563. 

the sight of, 5580. 
Bloody, I grant him, 5418. 
Bloom shall decorate the flower, 4884. 
Blow, bugle, blow, 1347. 

for blow, 300. 
Blows and buffets of the world, 1181. 

and knocks, apostolic, 4006. 

and revenge for me, 5125. 
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully, 422. 
Blunt truths more mischief do, 42^ 
Blush, girl6, sometimes, 431. 

6hame, where is thy, 4564. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



681 



Blush, that kindles in thy check, 427. 

the daisy is tipped with a, 975. 

to find its fame, 429. 
Blushes, the rising, 428. 
Boar, before thee, pursues, 5180. 

to fly the, 5180. 
Boasting, where, ends, there dignity 

begins, 438. 
Boat, a rotten carcass of a, 4568. 

they beat along the, 5597. 
Boats, little, should keep near shore, 

553. 
Boatswain's call, hark to the, 4396. 
Bodies soft and weak, 5762. 

the heavenly, shine, 4026. 
Bod}" and mind, to rest, 3509. 

hides, where, 2012. 

little, with a mighty heart, 1377. 

perpetrates, all that the, 5573. 

the, demands toil, 52S9. 
Boil, thou art a, 625. 
Boldness bears sway in conversation, 

439. 
Bond, I'll have my, 440. 

thej T scatter and unloose it from, 
2036. 
Bondage, a whole eternity in, 2670. 

doting on his own, 2278. 
Bondsmen, hereditary, 179S. 
Bone and skin, 1410. 
Bones among ye, come to lav his, 4255. 

flesh hacked from, 1691* 

the traveller's, 4669. 
Booby, give her, for another, 3367. 
Book, a, O rare one, 444. 

better than a printed, 4649. 

containing such vile matter, 445. 

I will unclasp a secret, 4497. 

most wondrous, 393. 

no opiate like a, 449. 

the, doth share the glory, 443. 

ungenerous even to a, 447. 
Bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 

441. 
Books are a world, 457. 

are not companions, 453. 

are sepulchres of thought, 461. 

are the Mentors of the heart, 462. 

as great a store have we of, 452. 

bad and good, I read, 446. 

cannot always please, 456. 

deep versed in, 4142. 

in the running brooks, 49. 

many, are wearisome, 4142. 

monuments of mind, 449. 

my only, 5821. 

others value, for dress, 2597. 

over his, 3842. 

pleased them at a riper age, 455. 

should conduce to one of four 
ends, 454. 

should entertain the light, 459. 

some are drenched sands, 458. 



Books that prove God's being, 446. 

the, arts, and academes, 442. 

the best companions, 44-. 

the perspectives to our weak 
sights, 451. 

the pleasant, 460. 
Boon, a, on this earthly sphere, 2078. 
Bore, the sound that ushers in a, 465. 
Bores, the, and bored, 472,'. 
Borrower neither a, nor a lender be, 

466. 
Borrowing dulls the edce of hus- 
bandry, 466. 
Bough, touch not a single, 5347. 
Boughs are dailv rifled, 5643. 

the rustling* 4300. 
Bound, there's nothing but has, 467. 
Bounty had not eyes, 468. 

stands for my, 5190. 

there was no* winter in his, 470. 

your, is beyond my speaking, 606. 
Bourbon or Nassau, can. claim higher, 

1420. 
Bow, arrow from the, 5069. 

each end of thy, 4126. 

the grand ethereal, 4128. 
Bowl, I would not dread the, 5660. 
Boy, a happy, 644. 

* a little curly-headed, 475. 

mv, has done his dutv, 631. 

the, and the bells, 56*26. 

'tis a parlous, 472. 

who would not be a, 474. 

you hear that, laughing, 647. 
Boyhood, I loved her from, 5462. 
Boys, little wanton, 112. 

scrambling, outfacing, fashion- 
monging, 479. 
Boy's will is the wind's will, 4222. 
Braggart, who knows himself a, 477. 
Brafds and bracelets, 9S6. 
Brain, a shallow, 1748. 

bears all down with her, 1741. 

distempers of a, 3788. 

in the chambers of the, 3197. 

preys on herself, 4S2. 

raze out the troubles of the, 770. 

the stretch of human, 4457. 

to catch a modern, 5451. 

to force his, 4955. 

too finely wrought, 4956. 
Brains, an enemy to steal awav their, 
1305. 

that drudgery of, 3869. 

their native, 4116. 

when the, were out, 481. 
Brave, deserve the fair, 485. 

how 6leep the, 486. 

oppressed with odds, 488. 

soul, a, is a thing which all serve, 
484. 
Brawl, put by this barbarous, 5224. 
Breach, once more unto the, 5548. 



682 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Bread, is, the reward of virtue, 5511. 

who hath not met with home- 
made, 2185. 
Breakers roar beneath, 4577. 
Breakfast with what appetite you 

have, 2654. 
Breast, a human, 5216. 

full eye and aching, 4303, 

the, that inly bleeds, 1194. 
Breastplate, what stronger, 2451. 
Breath, a little, 5877. 

a, no more, 1019. 

abundance of superfluous, 434. 

it chokes my, 4656. 

that wandering, 5649. 

'tis the cessation of our, 1107. 
Breathe, to, a little longer, 1095. 
Breathes, who, must suffer, 3358. 
Breed, a mongrel, 5087. 
Breeze, a, came wandering from the 
sky, 490. 

leaves in thy, 5342. 

the cooling western, 3881. 
Breezes of the South, 491. 
Brevity is very good, 494. 
Brevity's the soul of wit, 493. 
Bribes, contaminate our fingers with, 

496. 
Bride, a soft and gentle, 2883. 
Bridegroom, fresh as a, 1297. 
Brigadiers, wishing to be, 4749. 
Brightest, the, still the fleetest, 3363. 
Brightness, purity, and truth, 5784. 
Brine, athwart the foaming, 3715. 

ploughed through the, 4931. 
Britain, be still to Britain true, 502. 

changeful as a child, 3698. 

hath, all the sun that shines, 1382. 

oh ! when shall, 504. 

there's livers out of, 1382. 
Britannia gives the world repose, 

503. 
Broil and battle, 4740. 
Bronze, as monumental, 4925. 
Brook, a silvery, comes stealing, 505. 

and river meet, 5910. 
Brooks, like narrow, that rise, 3724. 

make rivers, 2074. 

send up a cheerful tune, 2495. 

the silvery, 2182. 
Broom, the long yellow, 506. 
Brother, a lawless, 4094. 

still to my, 11. 
Brothers, let us leave the shame and 

sin, 2055. 
Brother's love exceeds all in unworld- 

liness, 1797. 
Brow, his unembarrassed, 1903. 

the heaven of her, 5761. 

unknit that threatening, 1531. 
Brutes soon their zenith reach, 4155. 
Brutus leads me on, 1546. 
Bubble, a, burst, 1951. 
Bubbles on the sea of matter, 3360. 



Bud, a pretty, 1412. 

canker dwells in the, 2784. 

is in the bough, 4884. 
Buds salute the day, 4864. 
Build, when we mean to, 4008. 
Building, 'tis a tall, 674. 
Bulwark of all right, 4518. 
Business, hackneyed in, 4296. 

let's banish, 5283. 

some take to, 5793. 

that we love, 511. 

to double, bound, 2454. 

what is the ? 
Buttercups, knots of, 3162. 

the little children's dower, 512. 
Butterfly, a mere court, 866. 

springs on new-born wings, 4883. 

who breaks a, 4424. 
" But yet," I do not like, 513. 
By foreign hands thy dying eyes were 
closed, 1062. 

Cabbage, to make a leek of, 1453. 
Caesar, fit to stand by, 4741. 

imperial, dead and turned to clay, 
1033. 

O mighty, dost thou lie 60 low, 
1023. 

shall I say to, 469. 

the word of, 54S5. 
Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits, lie 

in dust, 676. 
Cage, a gloomy, 4813. 
Calamity, thou art wedded to, 514. 
Calculation, the joys of, 5609. 
Caledonia, stern and wild, 4470. 
Calendar, hour accursed in the, 955. 
Caliban, she'd make eyes at, 812. 
Calm, a, for those who weep, 2007. 

a pure ethereal, 5515. 

an even, perpetual, 515. 

'tis impious to be, 5319. 
Calumny, strikes the whitest virtue, 
519. 

thou shalt not 'scape, 521. 

will sear virtue, 522. 
Camel labors with the heaviest load, 
1773. 

to thread a needle's eye, 1218. 
Can such things be, 4040. 

this be true, 5374. 
Canals of contradiction, 5379. 
Candle, how far that little, 387. 

we did not see the, 1927. 

you are as a, 1118. 
Candles are all out, 3502. 
Canes with amber tipt, 5541. 
Cannon, cast of brazen, 5556. 

in front of them, 5559. 

level as the, 4643. 

thunder of my, 5552. 
Cannon's mouth, even in the, 4737. 
Cannons have their bowels full of 
wrath, 293. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



683 



Canst thou not minister to a mind dis- 
eased, 770. 
Canvas, heaven speed the, 4570. 
Capacity, the measure of, 4848. 
Captivity is true liberty, 2373. 
Caravan, the innumerable, 2714. 
Card, we must speak by the, 4837. 
Cards, an old age of, 814. 

are good, thanks her Maker, 2329. 

conspire as in treason, 1883. 
Care, buy it with much, 4268. 

echo waits with art and, 1344. 

has a mortgage on every estate, 
534. 

is no cure, 528. 

keeps his watch, 527. 

lies slumbering, 4391. 

pursues its victim to the grave, 
531. 

that is entered once, 530. 

the burden of the nation's, 2532. 

their chief and constant, 1271. 

to our coffin adds a nail, 532. 

wrinkled, derides, 3261. 
Cares, a world of restless, 4361. 

are employments, 2342. 

I'll bear your, 2826. 

rich man's son inherits, 4333. 
Carnage and conquests cease, 4774. 
Carousal shakes the illumined hall, 

987. 
Carpet, on the delicate, 4716. 
Carpets so rare, 3017. 
Cart, Thespis sung ballads from a, 

3872. 
Case, I would it were my, 2024. 

'tis good in every, 4267. 
Cash, they lent me, 1116. 
Cask, an oracle within an empty, 1748. 
Cassius, that spare, 972. 

there is no terror, 2189. 
Cat, the, will mew, 3470. 
Catalogue, in the, ye go for men, 1277. 
Caterpillars of the commonwealth, 

859. 
Cathay, a cycle of, 536. 
Cato, heroic, stoic, 538. 
Cattle miss their master's call, 4988. 
Cause, could speak to every, 2618. 

dead falls the, 497. 

felt the, not heard it, 2499. 

support the, 5541. 

thou great first, 3990. 

to unriddle every, 3814. 

unless her, be sanctified, 5574. 
Causes, amorous, 539. 
Cave, backward in his, 4715. 
Caverns, twice ten thousand, 3609. 
Caves, the barbarous, 3088. 
Cease to write and learn to think, 3791. 
Cedar planted by a spring, 4917. 
Celerity is admired by the negligent, 

35. 
Censure, a wise man's, 3984. 



Censure, freely, let such, 926. 

take each man's, 61. 
Ceremony, it useth, 2829. 

the sauce to meat, 559. 
Ceremony was but devised, 558. 

what have kings save, 2527. 
Chain, the wretch drags his, 4661. 
Chains, my, and I grew friends, 2075. 
Chambers seem full of welcomes, 5621. 
Champagne, the last glass of, 3854. 
Champion in the ring, 3860. 

the, and the child, 3434. 
Chance, all, direction, 565. 

dark idolater of, 4450. 

grasps the skirts of, 678. 

may shake it, 5677. 

we profess ourselves to be the 
slaves of, 21. 

who would trust, 1789. 
Chancellors who nothing know, 5484* 
Change, a, came o'er the spirit, 568. 

and mend, you may, 5845. 

cometh with every hour, 226. 

the ringing grooves of, 572. 
Changeless march the stars above, 770 
Changelings, fickle, 4321. 
Chanticleer, the strain of strutting 

713. 
Chaos, ancestor of nature, 574. 

comes again, 575. 

is come again, 72. 

is restored, 576. 

of thought and passion, 3059. 

one glaring, 925. 
Character, if she touch a, 4441. 

in thy life, 577. 
Characters, high, are drawn from high 

life, 200. 
Chariot, drives a, 5425. 
Charity, alas for the vanity of, 605. 

all mankind's concern is, 607. 

blessing all lands with, 4338. 

did, prevail, 4014. 

fulfils the law, 603. 

give him a little earth for, 92. 

offence to peace and, 4185. 

the calm of golden, 2750. 

thrives against hope, 610. 
Charm, how often have I paused on 
every, 2596. 

the, dissolves apace, 2563. 
Charmer, t'other dear, 1719. 
Charms and virtues, where are the, 
2359. 

she, by accepting, 3130. 

strike the sight, 3226. 

thy sweet seducing, 3942. 

which I gaze on so fondly, 1690. 
Chase, in piteous, 5119. 

Jack loved the, 2295. 
Chased, with more spirit than en? 

joyed, 4099. 
Chaste as ice, pure as snow, 521. 

as the icicle, 612. 



084 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Chatterton, that marvellous boy, 614. 
Chaucer, well of English undefiled, 

2599. 

whose native verse, 4847. 
Cheat, the pleasure to, 615. 

thou art a devilish, 2562. 
Cheats that play one game, 4919. 
Cheek, a, whose, bloom was mockery, 

1536. 
Cheeks sunk into his jaws, 3952. 
Cherry-trees, white with blossoming, 

4881. 
Cherubs, the childless, 637. 
Chesterfield, he thought like courtly, 

2296. 
Chickens, count their, ere they're 

hatched, 159. 
Chide him for faults, 622. 

if she do, 620. 

rne for loving that armchair, 3195. 
Chiding, never did I hear such gallant, 

2290. 
Child, if ever he have, 957. 

is father of the man, 1644. 

it is the spirit of a, 645. 

may learn the better, 2638. 

nurse for a poetic, 4470. 

she taught the, to read, 1356. 

sports of children satisfy the, S635. 

the bearing of a, 5690. 

the life-blood of the, 939. 

the spirit of a, 640. 

to have a thankless, 2430. 
Childhood, how dear are the scenes of, 
2180. 

shows the man, 629. 
Childhood's hour, ever thus from, 

1232. 
Children are the keys of Paradise, 650. 

fathers make their, blind, 1642. 

bring their love with them, 648. 

fill the groves with glee, 3557. 

if the, were no more, 630. 

just let loose from school, 1439. 

laugh loud, 647. 

of larger growth, men are, 3048. 

of smiles and sighs, 2745. 

of the restless sea, 5596. 

vengeance overtake such, 5458. 

women know the way to rear, 643. 
Chimes, the tone of the, 5626. 
Chinese, like, etchings, 1860. 
Chinee, the heathen, 910. 
Chivalry, the domain of, 4831. 
Chloe, what can, want, 2127. 
Choice, even in the happiest, 3135. 

follow thou thy, 653. 

of sublunary good, 4294. 

of the prudent, 4290. 
Choir, the starry, 4995. 
Choler, must I give way to, 654. 
Choose a cloud before it fall, 1138. 
Chord is touched within ue, 3414. 
Chords in unison, 5080. 



Chords that tinkle to, 4630. 
Christ, that it Mere possible, 1876. 

the dawn of, 662. 

the Lord took our humanity, 664 

the one great word. 658. 

was born across the sea, 656. 
Christian, I hate him for he is a, 2650. 

intercessors, 2107. 

is the highest style of man, 3065. 

of a faith like this, 526. 

warrant for them. l:; ( .is. 
Christians have burnt each other, 398. 

mad as, used to be, 399. 
Christmas, a merry, 2164. 

at, did we weave holly, 661. 

blocks are burning, 663. 

comes but once a year, 659. 

holly, round the hearth, 661, 

we'll keep our, 666. 
Christmas-house for once a year, 2276. 
Christmas-tide, at, 605. 
Chrysolite, one entire and perfect, 

1553. 
Church, a man may cry, 2337. 

and state, 3698. 

and state should be obliged, 4596. 

in, the leprosy begins, 4201. 

ladders are not mounted, 672. 

some go to, 4200. 

some to, repair, 3410. 

who builds a, 671. 

what is a, 673. 

what makes a, 670. 
Circle, a, straight succeeds, 1479. 

bounding earth and skies, 5543. 

within that, 4557. 
Circles are praised, 269S. 
Circumstance, the blows of, 678. 
Circumstances, if, lead me, 5361. 
Citizen, he speaks not like a, 4743. 
City, a magical, 5583. 

Cain made the first, 1885. 

roofs the whole, 3330. 
Civility of placid looks, 1857. 
Clack, his everlasting, 5099. 
Clarion, sound the, 1937. 
Clay, each sinks into his native, 3052. 
Clergy made so fine, 4534. 

scorn it not, 2325. 
Clerk, there goes the, 689. 
Clerks, learned, and Latinists, 672. 

the wit of greatest, 4959. 
Client, the, gets the suit, 1363. 

language will bend to every, 2625. 
Cliff, my haunt the hollow, 4300. 

the dreadful summit of the, 1285. 
Climb, fain would I, 110. 
Clime, adored in every, 3990. 

of the unforgotten brave, 2034. 

that sweet golden, 5002. 
Climes, the product of all, 1554. 
Clock, the, of the town, 3241. 
the, upbraids me, 5231. 
will continue to work, 4948. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



685 



Cloister's wall, bounded within the, 

3563. 
Clothes, through tattered, small vices 

do appear, 166. 
Clothing, over-nice and formal, 4410. 
Cloud, a little, 709. 

a, that's dragouish, 4587. 

and wind, 3604. 

answering unto cloud, 5229. 

from every stormy, 3559. 

mantles around thy feet, 3498. 

not from one lone, 5176. 

one single, 705. 

that wears a golden hem, 4865. 

the August, 699. 

the brightest day hath a, 3426. 

the gray of the eastern, 3353. 

the thunder-organ of the, 4935. 

under the storm and, 726. 

with folds so soft and fair, 698. 

yonder solitary, 710. 
Cloud-capped towers, gorgeous pal- 
aces, 1272. 
Cloud-walls of the morning, 706. 
Clouds and eclipses, 1646. 

are angels' robes, 708. 

are drifting, 3624. 

are scudding, 4933. 

behind the, 2739. 

bright, motionless pillars, 697. 

consign their treasure, 696. 

dispelled, 1663. 

from shadowy caves, 702. 

hooded like friars, 711. 

I loved the, 707. 

in tumult fly, 3347. 

it plays with the, 4483. 

leaving a gap in the, 3377. 

on the western side, 701. 

on their mountain-thrones, 5026. 

the black and heavy, 5177. 

when are seen, 546. 

whose shadows haunt the deep, 
4987. 
Clown, thou art mated with a, 2307. 
Clytie, the mad, 5012. 
Coach, go call a, 712. 

of hackney, 2771. 
Cock-a-doodle-doo ! 713. 
Cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, 

714. 
Coil, struggle with the, 4292. 

we have shuffled off this mortal, 
1030. 
Coins between dying fingers, 3630. 
Cold in clime are cold in blood, 2942. 
Coldness, pride, or virtue, 5807. 
Coliseum, while stands the, 4348. 
College, a, or a cat, endow 

to build a, 5609. 
Color, glory of, 5039. 
Colors seen by candle-light, 5900. 

the varied, run, 5398. 
Column, to rear the, 3444. 



Columns, sepulchral, 1577. 

two or three, 4367. 
Combat, the, deepens, 1695. 
Combatants, dust involves the, 3818. 
Come and trip it as you go, 979. 

for the sunlight calls, 799. 

gentle Spring, 4867. 

one, come all ! S49. 

to the bridal chamber, death, 1054. 

what come may, 5234. 

what sorrow can, 2842. 
Comet to the sun desccuds, 4893. 
Comfort comes too late, 716. 

from his looks, 3934. 

no man speak of, 2042. 

the slightest tone of, 2773. 

'tis for lighter ills, 1191. 
Comfort's in heaven, 529. 
Comforter, O thou true, 1098. 
Coming events cast shadows, 4055. 
Command, wisdom bears, 4946. 

was service, 1329. 
Commentators each dark passage 
shun, 719. 

give me, 718. 
Commonwealth, caterpillars of the, 

859. 
Companion, 'tis a sweet, 3306. 
Company, a survey of the, 4735. 

I would no other, 5202. 

those that kept me, 4237. 
Comparisons are odorous, 720. 
Compass, sail, and oar, 4089. 
Compensations come, 737. 
Complete in feature and in mind, 1897. 
Complexion brown or fair, 5311. 
Compromise make, 5545. 
Conceit brags of his substance, 478. 

in weakest bodies strongest 
works, 107. 

petty, and pettier jealousies, 917. 
Conclusion, O most lame and impo- 
tent, 191. 
Conflict, then more fierce the, grew, 

306. 
Confidence is conqueror of men, 747. 
Confusion worse confounded, 1147. 
Congregations, be sure to keep up, 

693. 
Conquerors greater glory gain, 1931. 
Conquest, peace is a, 3763. 

would incline, 1692. 
Conquests gained before, 1896. 

glories, triumphs, spoils, 1023. 
Conscience, a quiet, 762. 

a slave to, 4405. 

a still and quiet, 752. 

a terrifying little sprite, 767. 

against a, 3678. 

does make cowards of us all, 749. 

into what abyss, 757. 

is harder than our enemies, 755. 

is the oracle of God, 765. 

man's most faithful friend, 766. 



6*6 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Conscience, telle every man, 4977. 
the, rarely gnaws, 761. 
with injustice is corrupted, 751. 
why should not, have, 758. 
Consideration like an angel came, 769. 
Conspiracies no sooner should be 

formed, 772. 
Constancy in wind, 934. 
Constant, were man but, 774. 
Constellations of the night, 4909. 
Consummation devoutly to be wished, 

4964. 
Contagion light on you, 953. 
Contemplation and valor, 3120. 

of created things, 3440. 
Contempt, contemptible to shun, 781. 
Contend, let us no more, 1762. 
Content can soothe, 798. 
great as my, 3168. 
he that commends me to, 786. 
his wealth, 5490. 
poor and, is rich, 788. 
thyself to be obscurely good, 796. 
to dwell in decencies, 5508. 
who cannot with a little be, 793. 
Contention hath broke loose, 4157. 

the trumpet of, 5109. 
Contents, we bound our calm, 4064. 
Contest, great, follows, 803. 
Continents, thou wert before the, 3622. 
Contradictions, full of, 1296. 
Conversation, in, boldness now bears 
sway, 439. 
scope of, 3096. 
should flow, 806. 
Conversion so sweetly tastes, 4233. 
Cook, my, and I'll provide, 2273. 
Coquette, such is your cold, 818. 
Coral is more red than her lips, 1259. 
Corn, along the fields of, 4930. 
Corner-stone of a nation, 3760. 
Coronets, kind hearts are more than, 

3548. 
Corpse, who cared about the, 1866. 
Corruption inhabits our frail blood, 
2423. 
is a tree, 819. 
shall deluge all, 822. 
that lends, wings, 911. 
Corse to the ramparts, 5589. 
Cottage, love in a, 839. 
the little smiling, 2169. 
with a double coach-house, 2284. 
Counsel, bosom up my, 831. 
cease thy, 830. 
your, still be true, 5368. 
Avar with good, 2782. 
Counsels, perplex and dash, 1362. 
Counsellors to fear, 1659. 
Countenance more in sorrow, 1532. 
Country, die to serve our, 3750. 
the undiscovered, 1031, 
they touch our, 4664. 
they love the, 838. 



Country, with all her faults 6he is my, 

501. 
Country's rights, 823. 
Countrymen, fellow, have stood aloof, 

57. 
Coupled for strife, 5533. 
Courage raounteth with occasion, 841. 

never to submit or yield, 850. 

screw your, to the "sticking-place, 
840. 

spark from Heaven's throne, 853. 

that scorns to bend, 853. 

to endure, 5749. 
Course of true love, never runs smooth, 

2S04. 
Court, a virtuous, 4362. 

melted into a whisper, 4445. 

some foreign, 251. 
Courtesy, dissembling, 867. 

I scant this, 5613. 

kissed his hand in, 906. 

that fine sense which men call, 868. 
Courtier eains land and title, 2325. 

not a, 862. 
Courts, I was not born for, 3991. 

of the nation, 758. 
Courtship, they dream in, 881. 
Covetousness. they confound skill in, 

887. 
Coward, a most devout, 890. 

and a villain, 1150. 

he lives a, 2408. 

never on himself relies, 904. 

sneaks to death, 4976. 
Cowarded and chased your blood, 

1655. 
Cowards are cruel, 900. 

common men are, 4335. 

die before their deaths, 891. 

father cowards, 3771. 

fight when they can flv no further, 
1185. 

may fear to die, 899. 

what can ennoble, 137. 
Cowardice, I hold it, 524. 

pale cold, 895. 
Cowslips in the woods, 1831. 
Coxcomb, a, claims distinction, 4522. 
Cradles rock us nearer to the tomb, 

2711. 
Craftsmen, wooing poor, 4707. 
Crag, he clasps the, 1333. 
Crags, far up the dim airy, 5169. 
Crazed beyond all hope, 3915. 
Creation, O fairest of, 5777. 

shut up from, 2299. 

sleeps, 3523. 

the noblest part of, 5562. 

the time-piece of, 2492. 
Creation's dawn beheld, 5266. 
Creative wisdom, 4448. 
Creature, lies like a cradled, 44S3. 

loves his kind, 4603. 

that is beloved, 2801. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



687 



Creatures feed their young, 3692. 

we are little airy, 5535. 

who serve his, (304. 
Creed, he received their, 4502. 

holding no form of, 4210. 

sapping a solemn, 2410. 
Creeds, if our, agree, 399. 
Crescents, glittering like, 4132. 
Crew, a restless needy, 4736. 

he was of that stubborn, 3679. 
Crickets, the, chip, 5407. 
Crime beneath heaven, 3391. 

consecrate a, 914. 

if you bethink yourself of, 3986. 

is registered m heaven, 2072. 
Crimes appear before us, 3215. 

habits reach the dignity of, 2076. 

may pass for virtues, 2433. 

successful are justified, 5336. 
Cripples in the gout, 3863. 
Critic, he was in logic a, 2766. 

nor in the, let the man be lost, 923. 
Critical, I am nothing if not, 916. 
Criticising elves, spite of all, 1672. 
Criticism, not all waste their, 930. 
Critics are ready-made, 932. 

in wrong quotations, 4118. 

some have turned, 924. 

that other names deface, 920. 

who themselves are sore, 934. 
Crocodile, each drop would prove a, 
2321. 

I will sooner trust a, 3044. 
Crocus, the yellow, 657. 
Cross, the strong offence's, 2437. 

upon the heart, 4195. 
Crosses bring forth the best events, 

935. 
Crow in heaven's air, 4645. 
Crowd, almighty, 3940. 

huzzas, 3288. 

salutations of the, 3939. 

we met, 'twas in a, 3172. 
Crown, a, is but a wreath of thorns, 
2531. 

a, what is it, 2538. 

drop a, on this couple, 3098. 

head framed to wear a, 2528. 

him, honor him, 587. 

my, is called content, 787. 

no other, 2907. 

of justice, mercy is the, 3219. 

the king's, 3208. 

uneasy lies the head that wears a, 
2526. 

with my own hands I give away 
my, 1. 
Cruel, the, cannot weep, 5138. 
Cry, a, between the silences, 2748. 

the, did knock at my heart, 4574. 
Crystal, massy trunks cased in, 2339. 
Crystals break the rill, 5403. 
Cupid is a casuist, 942. 

is a knavish lad, 945. 



Cupid is painted blind, 944. 

regent of love rhymes, 943. 

rejects divided vows, 2904. 

the bolt of, 1720. 

your matrimonial, 3128. 
Cupids, kill with arrows, 2821. 
Cupid's strongest bow, 2806. 
Cur, a, doth grin, 780. 
Curfew tolls the knell of day, 1438. 
Curiosity, that low vice, 946. 
Currents, two such silver, 3110. 
Curs are not regarded when they grin, 
2017. 

like village, 3283. 

mouth a bone, 3670. 

you common cry of, 3937. 
Curse, is there not some, 5337. 

on your shallow arts, 1791. 

the, that money can buy out, 4031. 

'tis the primal, 2345. 
Cursed be the verse, 3S86. 
Curses not loud but deep, 1228. 
Curtains gray and thin, 4718. 

let fall the, 1440. 
Custom calls me to it, 967. 

cannot stale her infinite variety, 90. 

made this life sweet, 4282. 

man yields to, 970. 

men are dupes to, 970. 

more honored in the breach, 966. 

the slaves of, 969. 
Customs, new are followed, 965. 
Cynic, let sage or, prattle, 2957. 
Cynthia of the minute, 1138. 

Dagger, the, hurled, 4982. 
Daggers, I will speak, to her, 937. 
Dainties to them, 974. 
Daisies in the wintry earth, 5642. 

pied and violets blue, 4863. 

the, at my feet, 4865. 
Daisy's cheek is tipped with a blush, 

975. 
Daltance, the primrose path of, 1456. 
Dame, he that would win his, 879. 

wretched is the, 2414. 
Dames of ancient days, 977. 

who beauty want, 3667. 
Damn with faint praise, 927. 
Damnation, I dare, 4309. 
Dance, beautiful maidens moved 
down in the, 989. 

of bounding Beauty's train, 987. 

on with the, 984. 

when her feet twinkle in the, 990. 

when you do, 976. 
Danced without theatrical pretence, 

980. 
Dancer, such a, 985. 
Danger, I have not quailed to, 54. 

it brings, 65. 

like an ague, 1166. 

lurks within, 5587. 

our beards be shook with, 843. 



688 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Danger, out of this nettle, 996. 

serves among them, 4161. 

where, or dishonor lurks, 5738. 
Dangers, thou canst make us, 1313. 
Daniel come to judgment, 2502. 
Dare to be true, 2688. 
Dark, a wrestling in the, 3204. 

and dearth, tire and frost, 1998. 

at one stride comes the, 1000. 
Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue, 422. 
Darkness and cold on my heart have 
lain, 1174. 

and despair, 2727. 

and light, the choice between, 1140. 

bends down like a mother of grief, 
1001. 

breaks within the east, 1012. 

doubts, and fears, 3779. 

from, until dawn, 4119. 

in, lies the great decree, 1630. 

instruments of, 1447. 

looks fair, 4127. 

of slumber and death, 3589. 

the instruments of, 5179. 

your voices break in, 372. 
Darling of the April rain, 5497. 

of the gods, 646. 
Daughter dries a father's tears, 2413. 

he loves my, 2823. 

my, comes, 4887. 

when he sacrificed his, 3569. 
David's psalms translated, 3875. 
Dawn, fresh-lit, 4874. 

O fairest, clearest, 3595. 

of another life, 3650. 

the dullness that precedes the, 
1112. 

we w T ho watched the, 4911. 
Day, a joyous, 3854. 

a, so fought, so followed, 5487. 

begins to break, 1009. 

boils at last o'er night's brim, 3353. 

breaks at last, 3354. 

dapples the drowsy east, 1011. 

each lost, has its patron saint, 
3733. 

for toil, hour for sport, 1828. 

goeth, cometh night, 5409. 

is born, 227. 

is cold, the, and dark, 4807. 

is done, 1437. 

is the child of time, 1016. 

nor night, let never, pass, 3987. 

O perfect, 1018. 

oblivion of the cares of, 1441. 

of sunny rest, 728. 

one broad long, 4872. 

one is enough to find a world, 1014. 

smite the hills with, 5018. 

stands tiptoe on the- mountain- 
tops, 1006. 

the all-auspicious, 5444. 

the closing hour of, 3518. 

the darkest, will pass away, 1193. 



Day, the deathbed of a, 5411. 

the god of, 714. 

the grace of a, that is dead, 3732. 

the, now leaps, 5019. 

the parting, 5038. 

then dawns the, 5619. 

this happy, 664. 

thou art my single, 412. 

what is a, to an immortal soul 
1019. 

will end, 1870. 

without a cloud has passed, 1088. 
Days, bright and dark, 5896. 

cheerful, and nights, 2345. 

he spent in loving me, 4224. 

I saw the, 186. 

in my young, 1116. 

life that leads melodious, 2751. 

my, are in the yellow leaf, 3654. 

my, go on, 1998. 

my salad, 5903. 

one sun more strung on my bead 
of, 1015. 

our, are numbered, 4978. 

sw T eeten the other, 4394. 

teach me to number my, 5684. 

the hypocritic, 5245. 

we love the play-place of our early. 
5907. 
Day s full glare, 4911. 

lustrous eyes, 5042. 
Dead falls the cause, 1363. 

he's, or should be so, 5429. 

live upon the, 1865. 

past bury its dead, 1878. 

the dear weary, 704. 

the, know it not, 3384. 

the only constant mourner o'er the, 
973. 

the silent, 1875. 

the tombless, 302. 

tongues to the silent, 4144. 
Deadly aim, each levelled, 295. 
Death, a lightning before, 1041. 

afraid of, 3653. 

all eloquent, 1060. 

but entombs the body, 4823. 

came with friendly care, 2404. 

chilled the fair fountain, 1101. 

cometh soon or late, 1092. 

condemning some to, 2508. 

confounds all, 1057. 

crowns life, 4278. 

darkness of slumber and, 3589. 

dread of, 1665. 

dread of something after, 1031. 

ends a mortal woe, 1045. 

faith builds a bridge across, 1547. 

for restful, I cry, 1046. 

he draws the sting of, 3807. 

how shocking must thy summons 
be, 1077. 

I see nothing to make, hateful, 
1085. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIOXS. 



G89 



Death, I shall love thee better after, 

3010. 
I would not wish a fairer, 1039. 
imparts horror, 29S. 
is a thine which makes men weep, 

10SO. 
is another, sadder name for life, 

1049. 
is better than disease, 1110. 
is but what the haughty brave, 

1083. 
is dawn, 1113. 
is delightful, 1113. 
is in the dwelling, 3386. 
is life's high meed, 1089. 
is not absence, 10. 
is only kind to mortals, 1102. 
is rather shine than shade, 1055. 
is the dullness that precedes the 

dawn, 1112. 
is the crown of life, 1071. 
is the gate of life, 1065. 
is the privilege of human nature, 

1053. 
lies on her, 1040. 
life is paradise to what we fear of, 

1024. 
lives where all life dies, 1051. 
looks down with nods and smiles, 

1097. 
lord of the human soil, 3081. 
loves a shining mark, 1070. 
lovely in, the beauteous ruin lay, 

1069. 
makes no conquest, 1558. 
man makes a, 1067. 
man receives the principle of, 

1252. 
men will run away from, 1190. 
no dread of, 304. 
O sleep, ape of, 1047. 
of twenty thousand men, 5550. 
on his pale horse, 1050. 
past fearing, 1027. 
ruling passion strong in, 4370. 
see they suffer, 1473. 
shuns the wretch, 1081. 
smile amid the pangs of, 4577. 
smoothe the bed of, 3697. 
still draws nearer, 1059. 
stroke worse than of, 1476. 
the consoler, 1104. 
the dull cold ear of, 1075. 
the journey's end, 795. 
the, of friends, 1082. 
the orb, as hush as, 4927. 
the salt of states, 5563. 
the sense of, is most in apprehen- 
sion, 1026. 
the silent halls of, 2714. 
the valiant taste but once, 891. 
the victory of, 2489. 
the way to dusty, 5292. 
the wintry blast of, 5517. 



Death, there is a reaper whose name 
is, 1105. 
there is no, 1049. 
there is no confessor like, 110S. 
there is no, what seems so is 

transition, 1106. 
this deed of, 956. 
thou art sweet, thou art strange, 

1873. 
thou art terrible, 1054. 
thou hast all seasons for thine 

own, 1096. 
'tis to be at enmity, 1391. 
to the happv, thou art terrible, 

1098. 
treads in pleasure's footsteps, 

3850. 
we crawl toward, 3645. 
what art thou, 1090. 
what hadst thou to do with, 1111. 
when men are at the point of, 

1041. 
will come, 1095. 
wounds to cure, 1072. 
years of fearing, 4971. 
Deathbed of a day, 5411. 
Deathbed's, a, detector of the heart, 

1074. 
Deathbeds, ask, 5257. 
Death's voice sounds like a prophet's, 

2156. 
Debt, with friend's there is no such 

word as, 1117. 
Debts, he ne'er pays after, 4843. 
he that dies, pays all, 1115. 
I pay my, 3991. 
Decay, dreams never of, 5912. 

prescience of, 5038. 
Decay's effacing ringers, 1119. 
Deceit, fair-faced, 4650. 

in such a gorgeous palace, 1121. 
steals gentle shapes, 1126. 
Deceive, when first we practise to, 

1133. 
Deceiver, thou fond, 3190. 
December, in the depths of, 3092. 
sweat in, 865. 
the mirth of its, 5904. 
Decide not rashly, 1141. 
Deck, he did keep the, 3705. 
Declamations, dumb-sounding, 4505. 
Decorum, with, all things carried, 

886. 
Deed, a noble, is wrought, 3539. 

no great, is done by falterers, 2022. 
the place is dignified by the, 2198. 
to put his good thoughts into, 1176. 
who would do brave, 3969. 
Deeds, a stream of liberal, 5313. 

blessings wait on virtuous, 1145. 

my virtuous, 5502. 

'tis easy to beget great, 1144. 

we five in, 1143. 

will rise, 1146. 



690 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Peep, a journey to the, 4336. 

dive into the bottom of the, 2205. 

it lies at thy feet, 3607. 

6pirits from the vasty, 4S54. 

the bowels of the, 1648. 

the monsters of the, 3599. 

the rushing, 3600. 

the slimy bottom of the, 4478. 

the vast, salt, dread, 3598. 

we entered the great, 4486. 
Deer, let the stricken, weep, 2048. 
Defect of manners loseth hearts, 4016. 
Defence, in cases of, 1148. 

to kill in, 4516. 

what boots it to make, 1149. 
Defer not to be wise, 5293. 
Deformed, he is, crooked, old, and 

sere, 18. 
Deformity seems not, 5769. 
Degrees, it grows up by, 4610. 
Deity, a, believed, is joy begun, 1161. 

audience, with the, 3992. 

description of a, 2367. 

he overflows the walls with, 4082. 

worship the, 2534. 
Delay leads beggary, 1163. 
Delicious is your shelter, 4288. 
Delight, each branch of piety inspires, 
1161. 

proceeding with vast, 2638. 

thou keen, 4535. 

turn into a sacrifice, 2308. 

what is this world's, 3427. 

writ with beauty's pen, 1527. 
Delightful task, to rear the tender 

thought, 1354. 
Delights, all, are vain, 3683. 

are vain, 3843. 

if thou canst give, 3265. 

scorn, and live laborious days, 
1564. 

these violent, 1462. 
Demagogue, a, descends, 128. 

the bellowing, 4505. 
Demi-god, what, 3945. 
Democracy, that fierce, 3666.- 
Denizen, the world's tired, 4767. 
Denmark, something is rotten in the 

state of, 1171. 
Deportment gives them grace, 282. 
Depths, he sinks into thy, 3597. 
Desert, a garden in the, 798. 

this shadowy, 4281. 

to commend without, 5975. 

were mj r dwelling-place, 4770- 
Deserted at his utmost need, 1812. 
Deserts, your most high, 3971. 
Design, corrupt in their, 4511. 
Desire, exactly to thy heart's, 5736. 

something which was not, 1515. 
Desolate, none are so, 5145. 
Despair, all sadness but, 4284. 

ammunition of, 2242. 

cargoes of, 4667. 



Despair, defies even despotism, 1196. 

floundered on in, 3891. 

grim and comfortless, 4177. 

is stronger than my will, 5148. 

let not the brave, 2262. 

pallid with, 5822. 

shall I wasting in, 2396. 

should all, 3109. 

spoils longevity, 2723. 

the message of, 4459. 

the pangs and fury of, 1191. 

to master my, 1830. 
Desperate diseases are relieved, 1251. 

ills demand a speedy cure, 11S9. 
Despotism, a great chance of, 4223. 

despair defies even, 1196. 
Destinies are fraught with fear and 
pain, 735. 

like warp and woof, are woven, 
1200. 
Destiny, the heart reads its, 1199. 

this day we fashion, 1023. 

wiving goes by, 3101. 
Destroy his fib or sophistry, 802. 
Destroyers, courteous, 3690. 
Detractions, happy are they that hear 

their, 1204. 
Devil, a crafty, 1741. 

a laughing, in his sneer, 2120. 

balance with the, 761. 

beat a drum, 1914. 

can cite scripture for his purpose, 
1123. 

damn thee black, 960. 

drives, he must needs go that the, 
3472. 

first of rebels, 4166. 

hath not in his quiver, 1368. 

he will give the, his due, 1212. 

let us call thee, 5655. 

love, we cannot call thee, 2952. 

seem.a saint, and play the, 2317. 

shame the, 5360. 

the, builds a chapel, 675. 

the, hath power to assume a pleas- 
ing shape, 1211. 

the, sends cooks, 810. 

the, was piqued, 4408. 

this outward-sainted deputy is a, 
2309. 

temptation of the, 5182. 

was sick, devil a saint would be, 
1210. 

wonder how the, 5056. 
Devil's darling sin, 2284. 
Devils, more, than vast hell can hold. 
2357. 

the blackest sins put on, 2322. 

whip me, ye, 950. 
Devotion, strong motives to, 4193. 

to others, 4530. 

wafts the mind above, 2940. i 
Devotion's visage, 2320. 
Dew, chaste as morning, 1073. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



691 



Dew, let me wipe off this, 5123. 

see how the orient, 1215. 

that drops from corruption, 819. 

that lay upon the morning grass, 
SI. 
Dewdrop in the breeze of morn, 1217. 

on the rose, 5140. 
Dewdrops on the fields of heaven, 4901. 
Dews drop mutely on the hill, 4690. 

she weeps perpetual, 3521. 
Dial, figures on a, 1143. 

to the sun, 5366. 
Diamonds and Indian stones, 7S7. 
Dian's temple, 612. 
Dice will run the contrary way, 18S3. 
Die, ay, but to, and go we know not 
where, 1025. 

cowards may fear to, 899. 

he that hath a will to, 1048. 

in a great cause, 1801. 

taught us how to, 1058. 

the hazard of the, 2696. 

the young may, 1109. 

their every parting was to, 3718. 

thousands, without this or that, 
1063. 

'tis but to venture on that common 
hazard, 1052. 

to, and to part is less evil, 2918. 

to look about us and to, 2705. 

to, to sleep, 1028. 

we must, 3930. 

we must all, 3383. 
Dies, discord who neVDr, 1242. 
Diet, be sober in your, 1302. 
Difference, the, is as great, 4009. 
Diffidence, speak with, 4597. 
Digestion, a good, to you all, 1342. 

beef, veal, and mutton for, 22S9. 

good, turneth all to health, 5679. 

good, wait on appetite, 176. 
Digestions, uncmiet meals make ill, 

1340. 
Dignity and high exploit, 1129. 

to wear an undeserved, 2204. 
Dimple, in each cheek appears a, 1220. 
Dinner-bell, the tocsin of the soul, 1224. 

happiness much depends on, 1225. 

let me not stay a jot for, 1221. 
Din, a little, 5158. 
Dine, on homely fare, 3070. 

the business of their lives is to, 
1668. 
Dinner-time, just at, 1222. 
Disaster and defeat, 3538. 
Discontent, I see your brows are full 
of, 1234. 

now is the winter of our, 3767. 

sits heavy at my heart, 1131. 

the vulgar, ever, 4504. 
Discord, a sleepless hag, 1242. 

a 6tring which hath no, 5S33. 

makes the sweeter lay, 1237. 

so musical a, 2290. 



Discord, what dire effects How from, 

1241. 
Discords make the sweetest airs, 1240. 
Discourse may want a "No," 807. 
sweet and voluble is his, 1360. 
Discretion, let us teach ourselves not 
to outsport, 1244. 
the better part of valor is, 1245. 
you should be ruled by, 1243. 
Disdain and scorn ride in her eyes, 
4463. 
puffed up with proud, 5164. 
sour-eyed, 3097. 
Disease, death is better than, 1110. 
make him by inch-meal a, 951. 
that dire, 4704. 
Diseases, abstinence the strongest 
fence against, 16. 
desperate, relieved by desperate 

appliances, 1251. 
to cure incurable, 3826. 
Disgraced, impeached, and baffled, 

4639. 
Disguise, 'tis manly to disdain, 1254. 
Disgust concealed is proof of wis- 
dom, 2117. 
Disobedience, of man's first, 1257. 
Disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty, 

1256. 
Dispensation, the highest, 4067. 
Dispraised, of whom to be, 1258. 
Dispute, some men's tempers suit 
with, 1262. 
when much, has past, 196. 
Dissension between hearts that love, 
2972. 
uinders government, 1264. 
wonder whence, rose, 3782. 
Dissensions gather as they run, 1266. 
Dissimulation drops her mask, 1074. 

sets apart, 2331. 
Distaff, assume the, 905. 
Distance, a deep sigh in the, 5645. 
bathed in the purple of, 703. 
lends enchantment to the view, 
1273. 
Distress broke forth, 3840. 
Distrust is cowardice, 1189. 
Divine, a good, follows his own in- 
structions, 2450. 
Divinity that shapes our ends, 1615. 

the, that stirs within us, 1430. 
Do good, by stealth, 608. 
Doctor Fell, I do not love thee, 1255. 

the, call, 4583. 
Doctors and sages, 3337. 

who shall decide when, disagree, 
197. 
Doctrine, prove their, orthodox, 4006. 
Dog, a, is obeyed in office, 232. 
his, attends him, 5835. 
I am his Highness's, 1278. 
I do wish thou wert a, 2109. 
I'd rather be a, 4464. 



692 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Dog, the, is dead, 2105. 

will have his day, 3470. 
Dog-star, the, rages, 38S3. 
Dogs, all hy the name of, 1277. 

throw physic to the, 3S22. 
Dome, the most magnificent and 
costly, 2011, 

the, of thought, 4632. 
Doom, regardless of their, 4453. 
Door, through the opening, 5300. 
Doubt, honest, 4209. 

is the beacon of the wise, 1280. 

never stand to, 4266. 

shadow of truth, 5383. 

there lives more faith in honest, 
1283. 

thou the stars are Are, 2846. 

to be once in, 2467. 
Doubts, our, are traitors, 1281. 
Dove, mild as a, 2859. 
Doves peck the falcon's talons, 1185. 

the moan of, 4829. 
Drama's laws the drama's patrons 

give, 1286. 
Drank, I, I liked it not, 1310. 
Dread of all who wrong, 2509. 

of something after death, 1871. 
Dream, a, doth flatter, 3949. 

a hideous, 5181. 

after dream ensues, 127. 

as I have done, 1649. 

away, my early, 2933. 

fickle as a, 3289. 

like a hideous, 913. 

so sweet, so long enjoyed, 1231. 

the poet's, 3075. 

the spirit of my, 568. 

'tis still a, 1290. 
Dreaming in the day, 2977. 

over heavenly things, 4204. 
Dreams are but interludes, 1291. 

are of real events the shadows, 
1294. 

beyond the bliss of, 1311. 

I talk of, 1288. 

in their development have breath, 
1292. 

jealous even of, 2992. 

may come, in that sleep of death, 
1030. 

my, presage some joyful news, 
1289. 

of good outstripped the truth, 592. 

one of those passing rainbow, 
1295. 

pleasing, and slumbers light, 1980. 

some are nothing but, 1296. 

such stuff as, 2690. 

the dead past had its, 5285. 
Dress, be plain in, 1302. 

beyond the pomp of, 1301. 

drains our cellar dry, 1303. 

we sacrifice to, 1303. 
Drest, neat and trimly, 1297. 



Drink but I, why should ev*»*y 
creature, 130'J. 

give him strong, 1512. 

to me only with thine eves, 2555. 

to the lass, 5279. 
Drinking, rod hot with, 1306. 
Drinks and gapes for drink again, 1308. 
Drops, dear to me as the, 5733. 

store of childish, 5127. 
Drudgery and knowledge are kin, 4612. 
Drug, thou art the, 5282. 
Druids, the time of the, 1832. 
Drum, not a, was heard, 5589. 
Drums, hearts, like muffled, ."249. 
Drunkard, one, loves another, 1307. 

some frolic, 1319. 
Dryden taught to join the verse, 1317. 

wanted or forgot, 3889. 
Dulness loves a joke, 2485. 
Dunce, a, at home, 5326. 

a, with wits, 5712. 

how much a, 1322. 

like a very, 3821. 
Dundee, oh, for a single hour of, 1323 
Dungeon, himself in his own, 756. 

live upon the vapor of a, 2853. 
Dungeons, or thrones, 4086. 
Dunghills, buried in your, 5549. 
Dust, a heap of, alone remains of thee, 
1415. 

and heat, after the, 4120. 

down to the, 963. 

formed us all, 3052. 

thou art, 3046. 

to dust, 2710. 

wedded to the, 4450. 
Duties, new occasions teach new, 1332 
Duty a woman oweth, 3106. 

I've done my, 1328. 

in his, 683. 

let your haste commend your, 2102. 

no, could overtask him, 587. 

the path of, 1331. 
Dwarf, a, will turn the tide of battle, 

747. 
Dwell in decencies for ever, 3294. 
Dying, we thought her, when she 
slept, 1099. 

Each change of life he drew, 4563. 

on other to depend, 4728. 
Eagle of flowers, 5004. 

stretched upon the plain, 2434. 
Eagles are gazed upon, 580. 
Ear, it has a strange quick'jar on the, 
1321. 

more quick of apprehension, 3499. 

stillness invades the, 5170. 
Ears, all lips were applied to all, 4445. 

our, are cudgelled, 5095. 

you cram these w 7 ords in my, 5093 
Earth a fairy home, 4886. 

and air, so still, so soft, in, 3526. 

and sky and river, 3906. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



093 



Earth groans beneath a load. 5175. 

hath bubbles. 1592. 

holds no other like thee, -2939. 

inhabitants of the. 5724. 

is all in splendor drest, 259. 

is an echo of the spheres, 3415. 

lay her in the, 1032. 

less of, in them than heaven, 3S29. 

many nations of the peopled, 1052. 

mighty troubles of the, 2003. 

monarch of the universal, 2214. 

nought is so vile that on, 1419. 

the sweetest noise on, 5833. 

resolve itself to sea. 779. 

•oils o'er the, 402;'. 

sends incense up, 3448. 

dumbering on the, 3820. 

that, which kept a world in awe, 
1033. 

the beautv and the majesty of, 
2595. 

the poetry of, 3913. 

he sleeping, 4899. 

they that are sad on, 732. 

to every man upon this, 1092. 

turning, brings night to man, 3522. 

unto the things of, 4366. 

whence be drew his birth, 2171. 

whether he measure, 5351. 
Earthquake, all nature like an, 4280. 
Earth's betrothal, 4S74. 

noblest thing, 5801. 
Ease and alternate labor, 4287. 

some place the bliss in, 29. 

to live at, 3964. 

when courted most, 2346. 

you write with, 5S90. 

ye who dream of rural, 4379. 
East is blossoming, 5020. 

winds howling o'er us, 5584. 
Easter-day, no sun upon an, 978. 
Easter Sunday, 'twas, 1338. 
Eastern gate,* the, 1008. 

in, lands, 1731. 
Easy writing's hard reading, 5890. 
Echo, I would applaud to the very, 
179. 

waits with art and care, 1344. 
Echoes awoke and died in the dis- 
tance, 1345. 

when the, had ceased, 1345. 
Eclipse, total, 416. 

Economy, the poor man's mint, 134S. 
Edmund, here lies our good, 509. 
Education forms the common mind, 

1351. 
Egg, the vulgar boil, the learned roast 

an, 1359. 
Elders, deputies, church-wardens, 

5086. 
Element, the roar of his own, 3600. 
Elements be kind to thee, 1599. 

the war of, 2937. 

a conflict of its, 5876. 



Elephant, half-reasoning, 2447. 
Elephants for want of towns, 1907. 
Elf, pleased is every paltry. 4509. 
Elm, no rustling in the. 4990. 
Eloquence shall throne thee with 
archangels. 1365. 
- spite of all the, 1672. 
Elysium, an. on earth. 3143. 

what, have ye known, 5110. 
Embalmer of the midnight. 4»'>S2. 
Embers, slowing, through the room, 

1926. 
Embroidery, scarfs of mixed, 5575. 
Emotions, feels all her sweet, 4289. 
Empire of the sky, 5666. 

survey our, 44S1. 
Empires, he deals out, 3928. 
Employments, how various his, S37. 

wishing the worst of. 5693. 
Emulation hath a thousand sons, 34. 
Enchantment over passion, 4360. 
End, attempt the, 3806. 

served no private. 4920. 

the, crowns all, 5237. 
Ends, none of our own, 5203. 

to what base, 3979. 
Endurance is the crowning quality, 

3749. 
Endure, first, then pity, 5480. 
Enemies, make friends of, 45. 

you have many, 32S3. 
Enemv more mightv than he seems, 
1148. 

you are mine, 2506. 
England, a happy land, 13S7. 

be what she will, 501. 

bound in with the sea. 13S0. 

is safe, if true within itself, 
1378. 

model to thy inward greatness, 
1377. 

my country. 1389. 

never shall lie at the foot of a con- 
queror, 1378. 

our mother's mother, 1390. 

slaves cannot breathe in, 46(34. 

star on the crest of time. 13S6. 

the cottage homes of, 21S2. 

the meteor flag of, 1701. 

to itself rest true. 1378. 

with all thy faults. 1388. 
English earth, would I had never trod, 
13S3. 

undefiled, well of, 2599. 
Enmity, 'tis death to be at, 1391. 
Ennui is a growth of English root, 

1393. 
Enough that we are parted, 3721. 
Ensign, the imperial, 1700. 
Enterprises of pith and moment, 4264. 
Enthusiasm, moral inebriety, 1396. 
Enthusiast never yet couldrest, 1395. 
Envenoms what is comely. 1397. 
Envious courses, follow your, 1398. 



6 ( J4 



INDEX TO QUOTATION*. 



Envy grows with fame, 1572. 

is a kind of praise, 1401. 

not greatness, 1399. 

of this day, 4235. 

which turns pale and sickens, 
1400. 

will pursue merit, 1406. 

withers at another's joy, 1407. 
Envy's a sharper spur than pay, 1402. 
Epitaphs and worms, 5901. 
Equality is no rule, 2867. 
Equity, prompt sense of, 4535. 
Equivocation will undo us, 4837. 
Error and mistake are infinite, 808. 

is a hardy plant, 1427. 

lives ere reason is born, 4149. 

is worse than ignorance, 1428. 

shall, father truth, 1425. 

writhes with pain, 5362. 
Errors on the surface flow, 1424. 

you own your, 525. 
Estate, where an, is least, 4007. 
Estates dismembered, mortgaged, 

1882. 
Esteem and love were never sold, 
4330. 

we misplace, 5605. 
Eternity, heirs of, 4700. 

leading to the judgment for, 1090. 

on the verge of dark, 5262. 

passing through nature to, 1028. 

thou pleasing, dreadful thought, 
1431. 

whose end no eye can reach, 1429. 
Ether, beautiful, 4897. 

fields of, 4985. 

shining in the far, 697. 
Etiquette, there's nothing in the 

world like, 1432. 
Europe, better fifty years of, 536. 

rings from side to side, 2666. 
Eve by Adam was courted, 2975. 

the pale child, 1434. 
Evening, a fair good, 4418. 

bright and still, 1442. 

now came still, 1433. 

season of peace, 1441. 

shows the day, 4278. 
Evening's breath, wandering here 
and there, 1444. 

growing purple, 5033. 
Evenings, 6 precious, 4144. 
Events, Heaven hath a hand in, 4254. 
Every man hath business and desire, 
3710. 

one can master grief, 2037. 
Everything by starts and nothing 

long, 1677. 
Evil, a domestic, 5740. 

a soul of goodness in, 1446. 

and good are God's, 1976. 

be thou my good, 1187. 

is wrought by want of thought, 
1452. 



Evil, men do, lives after them, 1454. 

obscures the show of. 2610. 

pleasure, our greatest, 3847. 

springs up, and bears no seed, 
1451. 
Evils seldom change, 4243. 

to cast the fashion of uncertain, 
158. 
Exactions pestilent to hearing, 5112. 
Excellence, they sue to your, 3766. 
Excellency, the witness of, 3292. 
Excusing makes the fault worse, 1645. 
Execution, a pardon after, 1165. 

after, judgment hath repented, 
1472. 
Executioner, the common, 2818. 
Existence may be borne, 1773. 

so brief our, 2974. 
Expectation oft fails, 2234. 

to mock, 4236. 
Expense, something more needful 

than, 4531. 
Experience, a door to truth's house, 
1489. 

holds patience in his hand, 3741. 

is a providence, 1488. 

is by industry achieved, 1485. 

to make me sad, 3258. 
Expression, like the sun, 1492. 
Extenuate nothing, 2465. 
Extravagance, the rich man's pitfall; 

1493. 
Extreme, few in the, 5509. 
Extremes, the fate of all, 1496. 
Eye, all looks yellow to the jaundiced, 
2475. 

a stoic, 174. 

an, whether black or blue, 354. 

big with tears, 3701. 

contemplation's sober, 3359. 

fire in each, 3883. 

heaven in her, 1991. 

her face illumined with her, 314. 

her, in heaven, 1499. 

her speaking, 569. 

in her, the heaven of April, 1513. 

lei every, negotiate for itself, 540= 

lights eye in friendship, 1833. 

lustre in your, 739. 

murder in mine, 1501. 

of heaven visits, 3473. 

the bright black, 1524. 

the magic circle of the, 1890. 

the melting blue, 1524. 

what peremptory, 5761. 

when man's, appears wet, 5146. 

with a threatening, 1778. 
Eyebrow, ballad to his mistress', 2817, 
Eyes, a fire sparkling in lovers', 2834. 

and faces, happy as fair, 1316. 

bereft of light, 419. 

beshrew your, 2815. 

bright as the sun, her, 816, 

buried from human, 2249. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



695 



Eyes, but ber, 3944. 

darted desiring, 3933. 

dear, do not my heart forsake, 

1514. 
foul deeds will rise to men's, 1146. 
from woman's, 1502. 
half defiant, half meek, 1511. 
he cheats discerning, 3053. 
he'll stand and read her, 2823. 
her, are homes of silent prayer, 

1523. 
her, shone like the moon in water, 

1503. 
his, began to roll, 3842. 
how far your, 4950. 
how his, languish, 162. 
I am very fond of handsome, 1515. 
I do not love thee with my, 2863. 
I saw it with these, 5374. 
in her, thought grew sweet, 1506. 
in which heaven is seen, 
into my soul, 4247. 
let me see his, 5493. 
kissing cheeks and, 3626. 
like heaven's lamps, 1508. 
like the purest lights, 1507. 
look at happiness through another 

man's, 2088. 
millions cf false, 3638. 
my mistress', are nothing like the 

sun, 1259. 
my mother came in mine, 5124. 
of darkest night, 1522. 
show his, 4549. 
smiles in her, 817. 
so dark and deep, 1518. 
soft, looked love, 981. 
soul within her, 349. 
sparkling, 283. 

sweetest were ever seen, 1525. 
that are tyrants, butchers, mur- 
derers, 1501. 
that might have looked from 

heaven, 1505. 
that shame the violet, 1521. 
tnat testified surprise, 1744. 
that were fountains of thought 

and song, 1519. 
that would not look on me, 4173. 
the meeting of the, 1516. 
these faded, 8. 
the beauty of your, 1504. 
the, express, bashfulness, 288. 
thy deep, shine like jewels, 1512. 
to be adored, 1505. 
to gaze with longing, 5303. 
to pierce into men's faults, 1509. 
trust not the waters of his, 2314. 
too pure and honest, 1517. 
upraised as one inspired, 3180. 
water from her heavenly, 2053. 
wink with both our, 968. 
with a wondrous charm, 1511. 
j'our, may pierce, 5588. 



Face, a, formed to conceal, 4653. 

a pallid haggard, 3332. 

betokened all things dear, 1535 

captives of a, 344. 

compare her, 3799. 

death upon his, 1055. 

fling it at thy, 3151. 

his, was of that kind, 1530. 

I have no judgment in a, 2^54. 

I have seen his, 4696. 

in the sweat of thy, 3046. 

in this beauteous, 5074. 

look on her, 341. 

the mind in the, 1526. 

thy, bears command in it, 1533, 

to be grave of, 2608. 

two of a, 5105. 

young Paris's, 1527. 

your, is as a book, 1534. 
Faces, O my God ! 1538. 

saints only have such, 1537. 

smile in men's, 2188. 

vices festering to despairs, 1538, 
Factions bear away their rage, 5565. 
Facts I state are true, 5378. 
Faculty, the play of, 5861. 
Faery "elves, the'peasant sees, 1540. 
Failure, life a, 5085. 
Fain woulr*. I climb, 110. 
Fair or foul the lot, 1637. 
Fairy -gifts fading away, 1690. 
Fairy laud, this is the, 1539. 
Faith binds us to the Infinite, 1548 

builds a bridge across death, 1547. 

for modes of, 397. 

grew doting, reason cold, 4461. 

he wears his, 4190. 

his, might be wrong, 1542. 

his, can't be wrong, whose life is 
right, 397. 

I'll take thy word for, 3571. 

if, produce no works, 1541. 

in its sublime audacity of, 5911. 

is higher than reason, 1549. 

lost in certainty, 4820. 

one, has bound us, 3127. 

the points of. 695. 

the rock of, 1688. 

triumphant o'er our fears, 3761. 

unfaithful kept him falsely true, 
2232. 

zealots fight for modes of, 1543. 
Faithful among the faithless, 16S4. 
Faithfulness, the hunger of a heart is 

1850. 
Falcon, a, towering in her pride, 562. 

a, in her pride of place, 4015. 

the lordly, 4364. 
Fall to the mathematics, 3230. 
Falls are means to arise, 1551. 
False and hollow, all was, 1129. 

as air, 1552. 

face must hide false heart, 129©, 

it matters not how, 3974. 



696 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Falsehood and corruption, 4637. 

and fraud. 1554. 

I will turn thy, 1152. 

mingling truth with, 4653. 

the right with, 4615. 

to unmask, 5243. 

under saintly show, 2324. 
Falser than vows made in wine, 2819. 
Fame, a fool to, 1568. 

a monarch's feehle, 3863. 

a morning when I longed for, 1574. 

damned to everlasting, 1566. 

eat their way to, 930. 

elates the, 4219. 

eternal, 4171. 

has lent her fairest ray, 4246. 

he lives in, 1557. 

he mistook it for, 1715. 

he stands for, 138. 

is a public mistress, 1571. 

is as a snowball, 1583. 

is double-mouthed, 1563. 

is the fragrance of heroic deeds, 
1587. 

is the shade of immortality, 126. 

is the spur, 1564. 

is the thirst of youth, 1579. 

I slight not, 1569. 

love is better than, 2886. 

lulls the fever of the soul, 1586. 

men are fond of, 1570. 

no work e'er gained true, 2663. 

pathway to wealth and, 2634. 

pilferers of, 1935. 

probationers for, 5721. 

schemes men lay for, 1576. 

sometimes carries truth, 1565. 

that all hunt after, 1555. 

the rolls of, 4751. 

the strength of one, 1573. 

those longings after, 5516. 

what is the end of, 1582. 

what's, 1567. 

who grasped at, 1585. 
Fame's imperious call, 5713. 

proud temple shines afar, 129. 
Familiar as household words, 1556. 
Families of yesterday, 3694. 
Family, kill a man's, 3311. 
Famine is in thy cheeks, 3274. 
Famished people must be slowly 

nurst,~1343. 
Famous, found myself, 1580. 
Fan, tossing a, 4649. 

worthier of a, 901. 
Fancies, rambles with all, 4178. 
Fancy, bright-eyed, 5208. 

come back anon, 2361. 

his vacant, 5288. 

runs the great circuit, 1594. 

the dream of waking, 1435. 

who lives to, 3462. 

where is, bred, 1591. 

woe to whom, gains, 1595. 



Fancy-sick she is, 2809. 
Fancy's beams paint on the mists. 
1295. 

fondness for the child she bears. 
245. 
Fantasies, our, have two meanings, 

1593. 
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain, 

3289. 
Fare, ransacked for the bill of, 3015. 

thee well, and if for ever, 1605. 

thee well, deceitful maid, 1603. 
Farewell, a long farewell, 51. 

a word that must be, 1G07. 

goes out sighing, 5233. 

hope, 1187. 

let your haste commend you* 
duty, 2102. 

our everlasting, 3704. 

poor Jack, 1037. 

that fatal word, 1602. 

the w-ord that parts, 1597. 

then rose the wild, 4580. 

thou wretched fool, 993. 

to all my greatness, 1598. 

strikes two hearts, 1596. 
Farewells should be sudden, 1601. 
Farmer, the pious, 4260. 

travelling with his load, 3014. 
Farmers made so coarse, 4534. 
Fashion, a word which knaves use, 
1613. 

some swayed by, 4298. 

the glass of, 1609. 

wears out more apparel, 1607. 
Fast bind, fast find, 544. 
Fasts, our priest-like, 4752. 
Fate, a flood of headlong, 3721. 

accursed by, 5077. 

alas ! for the woman's, 3145. 

all are architects of, 1634. 

and fury drive along, 5579. 

blind, unrelenting, 4331. 

by what rude, 1625. 

fulfil thy, 1626. 

he fits for, 1621. 

himself can fix or change his, 2383, 

holds the strings, 1622. 

made me what I am. 489. 

man bows to, 971. 

mortals blind to, 2706. 

over-ruled by, 651. 

read the book of, 1868. 

some revolution of their, 4052. 

steals along with silent tread, 1632. 

strugglingln the storms of, 4319. 

the heart is its own, 1627. 

the storms of, 2025. 

thy, is the fate of all, 2739. 

we cry out against, 1787. 

when, summons, monarch obey, 
1618. 

wings the dart, 5692. 

wounds the generous heart, 2482. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



69' 



Fates call me forth, 5322. 

and fortunes, our, 3309. 

severely kind, 5057. 

what, impose, 1614. 
Father, a, to my youth, 4962. 

at the nuptial of his son, 1640. 

copy of the, 627. 

have a turnip than his, 2767. 

of life and light, 1158. 

preserve my, 3995. 

she has deceived her, 1122. 

should he as a god, 1641. 

that knows his own child, 1639. 

thy, in the dust, 3382. 
Fathers that wear rags, 1642. 

we think fools, 634. 
Fault, excusing of a, doth make it 
worse, 1471. 

glittering o'er my, 4234. 

he that does one, 2689. 

it is a worse, 4239. 

the, was mine, 1788. 
Faults, he a little hlind to her, 
2519. 

chide him for, 622. 

in other men we can, 1647. 

lie open to the laws, 3665. 

proceeding on distemper, 3215. 

though my, defaced me, 2416. 

to see all others', 5680. 
Favor, I court no, 828. 
Favors, the subject of their, 2432. 

the trifling of his, 1718. 

when, are denied, 1651. 

your, nor your hate, 1867. 
Fear, a name of, 1800. 

buries fear, 3278. 

desponding, 1664. 

fleeter than wind, 1662. 

friends for, 5420. 

greater than haste, 1662. 

is affront, 5796. 

is most accursed, 1661. 

of being silent, 4532. 

not courage, 1320. 

so remote the, 1059. 

thawing cold, 3934. 

this term of, 1660. 

those cheeks are counsellors to, 
1659. 

thrills through my veins, 3709. 

'tis time to, 5423. 

to do base things is valor, 5445. 
Fears do make us traitors, 1658. 

full of frights and, 5272. 

little, grow great, 2847. 
Feast, imagination of a, 2358. 

of vultures, 5577. 

pledge of a full, 4387. 

the beginning of a, 1667. 

'twas a public, 1226. 
Feasts, blest be those, 2275. 
Feather, lighter than a, 2758. 
Feathers, the owl, for all his, 3682. 



Features, his, played with every 
change, 430. 

it is for homely, 329. 

of different voice and, 5535. 
February hath twenty-eight days, 
3313. 

the slant sun of, 5671. 
Fee, scarce lie still without a, 2617. 
Feeling is deep and still, 1674. 

the offspring of, 5154. 
Feelings, some, are to mortals given, 
73. 

quench young, 4472. 
Feet, beneath her petticoat, 978. 

her, did creep out, 1675. 

let firm soles protect thy, 4581. 

the first of human, 3612. 
Fellow, a barren-spirited, 811. 

this, pecks up wit, 2479. 

thou art a, 2211. 

want of it, the, 3058. 

touchy, testy, pleasant, 595. 
Fellow-creatures, 'tis pleasant pur- 
chasing, 827. 
Fellow-feeling makes one kind, 1673. 
Felicity, our own, we make, 652. 
Felon, wise men know your, 5197. 
Fence, yon, that skirts the way, 1455. 
Few love to hear the sins they love, 

5473. 
Fiction rises to the eye, 1679. 

stranger than, 5377. 
Field and wood, nations of the, 2448. 

he that in the, is slain, 2218. 
Fields beloved in vain, 4454. 

clouds consign their treasure to 
the, 696. 

driving o'er the, 4719. 
Fiend, O most delicate, 5768. 
Fiends and. spectres from the deep, 
5725. 

that keep the word of promise to 
our ear, 1125. 
Fierceness makes error a fault, 195. 
Fight another day, 1694. 

the, becomes a chase, 5569. 

those that fly may ; 296. 

well hast thou fought the, 1683. 
Fighting and love, 5871. 
Figure, the, of the time, 4465. 
Figures, such heavenly, 4139. 
Finger, thou layest thy, 3515. 
Fire, a bastion fringed with, 5037. 

a, is quickly trodden out, 3661. 

a martyr in his shirt of, 3148. 

a waxen image against a, 2788. 

and powder consume, 1462. 

is quickly trodden out, 4050. 

from fisher's signal, 4572. 

gulfs of liquid, 950. 

love is a spirit compact of, 2862. 

O for a muse of, 3394. 

one touch of, 2657. 

pictures in the. 4376. 



698 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Fire, that's c.osest kept, 1896. 

the flint bears, 150. 

the shaft of, 700. 

the, the sword, the men, 5571. 

trim their evening, 2275. 

west was paved with, 5027. 
Fires, confluence of ethereal, 4895. 

the multitude of, 4907. 

violent, soon burn out themselves, 
1463. 

where two raging, meet, 785. 
Fireside, at your warm, 5622. 

there is no, 4804. 
Firmament, now glowed the, 3320. 

there is no fellow in the, 773. 
First of God's attributes, 5389. 

thing we do, kill the lawyers, 2611. 
Fishermen that walk upon the beach, 

1284. 
Fishes, as ravenous, 4640. 
Flag, of the free heart's hope, 1697. 
Flake after flake, 4721. 
Flame, a noble, pure and tender, 3366. 

it sets me all on, 2929. 

it stirs the mouldering, 3432. 

lacks oil, 3642. 
Flames of youth still burn, 1874. 
Flatter, bow, and bend my knee, 860. 

he would not, 4614. 

I cannot, 1702. 
Flatterer, preserve me from a, 1710. 
Flatterers, I tell him he hates, 1709. 
Flattery, deaf to, 1705. 

he who courts, 1716. 

is the food of fools, 1713. 

leave, to dedicators, 1711. 

men proud of, 1714. 

never seems absurd, 1712. 

road to fortune's door, 5396. 

soft and tender, 1708. 
Fleas that on him prey, 1208. 
Fleeting life, its lustre, 2675. 
Flesh and blood can't bear it, 1410. 

of flesh, bone of bone, 1685. 

thou art my, 625. 
Flight, no thought of, 851. 
Flock, there is no, 4804. 
Flood, the circling, 5070. 
Flora's train, herald of, 4724. 
Florets round a disk-like face, 5007. 
Flower, beauty's transient, 4704. 

born to blush unseen, 3590. 

I never loved a tree or, 1232. 

look like the, 2313. 

of all the field, 1040. 

that blooms around, 1732. 

the, that smiles to-day, 4354. 

the meanest that blows, 1729. 

the summer's, 1793. 

you seize the, 3855. 
Flower's a, true graces, 5007. 
Flowers, a drowsy smell of, 4986. 

and toys and sweetmeats, 5908. 

are springing, 1214. 



Flowers, die ungathered, 1723. 

find second birth, 4883. 

heaped together, 1884. 

laugh in the gale, 1724. 

nature paints the, 3154. 

no, embalmed the air, 4356. 

preach to us if we will hear, 17J6, 

spring up unsown, 1723. 

the gentle race of, 1722. 

thy home among the, 5651. 

they talk in, 1731. 

time that treads on, 5260. 

wake the rising, 4864. 

welcome as breath of, 868. 

so blue and golden, 1727. 
Foam, flung on the, 4485. 
Foe, a stubborn, 855. 

a timorous, 1733. 

arm us against the, 1376. 

censure from a, 3980. 

give me the manly, 1854. 

he never made a, 1735. 

his deadliest, 766. 

to let in the, 1149. 

yourself who are your greatest, 
1373. 
Foes, helmets of our, 5557. 

ten thousand, 4363. 
Follies, make their, known, 1737. 
Follow thou thy choice, 653. 
Folly fills the town, 3488. 

grows romantic, 1749. 

is all they've taught me, 5821. 

men proud of, 1714. 

pleases, 95. 

robed in purple, 4427. 

save me from, 1158. 

shoot, as it flies, 3445. 

to be wise, 2353. 

to do good is sometimes, 3371. 

to heap up estate, 4331. 
Food and clothes, 3578. 
Fool, a, at forty is a fool indeed, 45. 

a, in fashion, 1745. 

a, must now and then, be right. 
1747. 

a, wasp-tongued and impatient, 
5096. 

and sage, between, 5201. 

busy old, 4997. 

every inch a, 1743. 

he is a, 5780. 

let me play the, 616. 

smarts so little as a, 1750. 

the, commands the wise, 233. 

the, is happy, 4506. 

the, of nature, 1744. 

thou wert born a, 1739. 

wise enough to play the, 1738, 

there's danger in a, 1736. 

to make me merry, 3258. 

use you like a, 5529. 

we lost a, 4058. 

wretched, rash, intruding, 993. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



G99 



Pools are stubborn in their way, 3594. 

deceived or deceiving, 5382. 

flattery is the food of, 1713. 

men may live, 1746. 

our scorn may raise, 1401. 

rush in where angels fear to tread, 
140. 

ptay in idle wishes, 5696. 

that pride can boast, 4522. 

that stand in better place, 5094. 

thf paradise of, 669. 

they cannot die, 1746. 

to suckle, 1742. 

to talking ever prone, 1737. 

we make ourselves, 1819. 

we think our fathers, 5905. 

who came to scoff, 684. 
Pool's pleasure, 5325. 
Fools-cap uniform turned up with 

ink, 250. 
Voot, a, more light, 1676. 

'ootprints on the sands of time, 1459. 
*'op or beau, alloy of, 1904. 

some fiery, 1319. 

to plague his brother, 1751. 
Force first made conquest, 5049. 

is of brutes, honor of man, 852. 

moves us to gentleness, 1906. 

surprised by unjust force, 5505. 
Forces, bring all you may, 869. 
Forehead pale, and tresses pure, 

5788. 
Foreigners of renown, 4749. 
Forest, like the leaves of the, 301. 

the, is my friend, 3603. 

this is the, primeval, 1759. 
Forests hear the sound, 2301. 

rambles in valleys and, 1346. 
Forget, forgive, conclude, 4175. 

should I, 4187. 

the hardest science is to, 9. 
Forgetfulness, divine, 4682. 
Forgive, good to, 1768. 

me, Valentine, 165. 

she knows not to, 2122. 

they who, 1766. 

unapt to give or, 4752. 
Formalists, ye cold-hearted, 3726. 
Forms and shadows of real events, 
1294. 

I meet, strange are the, 4222. 
Forsaken, when he is, 3649, 
Fortitude is seen in great exploits, 

1772. 
Fortitude, the trial of their, 3739. 
Fortress or a nunnery, 4862. 
Fortune cannot change her mind, 1785. 

has some small difference made, 
1784. 

is merry, 1779. 

is female, 1788. 

I'd serve him with my, 3013. 

keeps an upward course, 5488. 

looks on them, 1778. 



Fortune made havoc of my means, 83. 

melancholy, sprung from change 
of, 47. 

never come, will, 1776. 

one out of suits with, 1916. 

our advantages are those of, 1787. 

since you will buckle, 1777. 

so sublime, 4700. 

thanks to our, 5115. 

the flood of, 1775. 

the joys that, brings, 1786. 

the son of, t>526. 

the slings and arrows of, 4973. 

was so low, 1783. 

we have placed thee high, 1789. 
Fortune's finger, a pipe for, 1780. 

power, I am not now in, 1782. 
Fortunes, my, will droop, 3659. 
Forty, a fool at, is a fool indeed, 45. 

pounds a year, 682. 
Fountain troubled, a woman moved is 

like a, 153. 
Fowls, wild, in their flight, 1834. 
Fox, the, ne'er so tame, 5332. 

when the, has got in his nose, 
909. 
Frailty, thy name' is woman, 1792. 
France robs marshes, 3015. 

'tis better using than trusting, 
1379. 
Fraud, far from, 1680. 
Fray, the latter end of a, 1667. 
Freedom all winged expands, 1805. 

fires the soul, 3466. 

loves a poor and virtuous race, 
1805. 

regained with a sigh, 2075. 

the oath of, 1S08. 

shrieked as Kosciusko fell, 2264. 

the glowing thought of, 2674. 

thou art not a girl, 1803. 

unfurled her standard, 1697. 
Freedom's battle is ever won, 1799. 

highest aims, 3252. 

home, or glory's grave, 2034. 

6oil beneath our feet, 1697. 
Freeman whom the truth makes free 

5375. 
French now gives us laws, 1611. 
Frenchman, the, 1809. 
Frenzy so desperate as this, 4979. 
Friend, a loan oft loses a, 2648. 

a pretended, is worse, 2333. 

a suspicious, 1733. 

after friend departs, 1103. 

an injured, 1858. 

best of friends, 1826. 

deliberate on thy, 1851. 

doth try an hollow, 1824, 

for a, life is too short, 1828. 

he makes no, 1735. 

I found in the heart of a, 2418, 

I had lost a, 1827. 

knelling a departing, 3480. 



TOO 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Friend, or enemy, I never sued to, 
2827. 

shall I give up the, 912. 

teach me to he thy, 1829. 

that loves you, 1820. 

the sunshine was a, 5046. 

thou hast prevaricated with thy, 
2326. 

thou art not my, 1093. 

to close his eyes, 1812. 

to thy, he true, 4616. 
Friends are each other's mirrors, 1841. 

are far away, 3185. 

backing of your, 1817. 

condemned embrace, 3702. 

fall off, 1855. 

he cast off his, 1852. 

he hath no, 5420. 

I have made, 1847. 

I would not enter on my list of, 
941. 

lend not money to thy, 2649. 

my, you, must abide, 2679. 

remembering my, 1813. 

save me from the candid, 1854. 

the multitude of, 1839. 

the poor advanced makes, 48. 

thou hast, and their adoption 
tried, 59. 

those prophets of the past, 55. 

those you make, and give your 
hearts to, 50. 

we cannot now remain, 3720. 

where you have, 2441. 

whose lives were undivided, 1419. 

whose memories were solace, 1834. 

would purchase thee a thousand, 
2651. 

you'll never hope to be, 1831. 
Friendship exerts her power, 3133. 

how you wrong our, 1117. 

I owe thee much, 1849. 

is constant, 1814. 

is next to angels' love, 1840. 

is but a name, 1845. 

is no plant, 1856. 

judge before, 1851. 

life is fair through thy, 1830. 

like a noble river, 1859. 

springs from wine, 5659. 

no medium knows, 1848. 

to suspect is a breach of, 2470. 

what a thing is, 1832. 

what is, 1853. 

where there is true, 558. 

with a knave, 1844. 
Friendship's an abstract of love, 1840. 

finest feeling, 4230. 

'tis thus in, 1845. 

words may feign, 3418. 
Frigate, the gallant, 4395. 
Frighted, shall I be, 654. 
Frown, if she do, 620. 
From thee to die were torture, 3703. 



Frost and light, the work of, 1863. 

fierce with tenfold, 5668. 

the panes are hung with, 1861. 
Frost-spirit, the, comes, 1864. 
Frowns, his, have favor in them, 2856, 
Frugal life is his, 3270. 
Fruit, like ripe, 5162. 

unripe sticks on the tree, 1175. 

what, would spring, 4275. 
Funeral, wreaths turned for her, 2494. 
Funny as 1 can, 248. 
Furnace, heat not a, 151. 
Fury, fire-eyed, be my conduct now, 

147. 
Future, blind to the, 2701. 
Futurity, forever future, 2367. 

Gain, play not for, but sport, 1880. 

serves and seeks for, 1879. 
Gains, the empiric's, 4101. 
Gale, a gentle, 4575. 

she stooped on the, 4569. 
Gales, softest are breathed, 5035. 
Gallows, a thief to the, 1930. 
Game, the pleasure of the, 2250. 
Gamesters, on what thrive, 1881. 
Garden, weeds o'ergrow the, 5316. 

where flowers were heaped, 1884. 

where once the, smiled, 682. 

who loves a, 1887. 
Gardens, a plant that grows not in all, 
3747. 

shut the, 4381. 
Garlands, with what strange, 5899. 
Garment of mystical sublimity, 5809. 

honors like our strange, 2201. 
Garrick's a salad, 1888. 
Gashes on his head, 3387. 
Gawds, all praise new-born, 3554. 
Gaze, still fixed my pious, 5010. 

the fascination of thy, 5483. 
Gem of purest ray serene, 3590. 
Gems, unpolished, 5403. 
Genius must be born, 1893. 

talent should minister to, 1895. 
Gentility, stand so much on, 1902. 
Gentleman, every Jack became a, 4322, 

from top to toe, 1904. 

I do not think a braver, 1898. 

I know a discontented, 1233. 

I was a, 872. 

nature had written, 1903. 

such true breeding of a, 2332. 

the grand old name of, 1905. 
Gentleness shall force us, 1906. 
Geographers, in Afric maps, 1907. 
Geography, in despite of, 1287. 
Get wealth and place, 3307. 
Ghost, I'll make a, of him, 5220. 

if thou'rt a, 4853. 

moves like a, 3501. 
Ghosts and forms of fright, 1915. 

troop home to churchyards, 1007 
Giant, to use it like a, 3211. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS, 



■01 



Gibbets keep the hand in awe, 5568. 
Gift horse in the mouth, 1920. 
Gifts are locked up in my heart, 1917. 
free of, that cost them nothing, 

1921. 
rich, wax poor, 1919. 
win her with, 1918. 
Gipsies who every ill can cure, 1924. 
Girl, noble and innocent, 649. 
Girls blush sometimes because they 

are alive, 431. 
Give me a look, 326. 
Givers prove unkind, 1919. 
Gladness, so full of, and of pain, 1017. 
Glances beget ogles, 2959. 

stolen, 2943." 
Globe, all that tread the, 1020. 
Gloom, in midnight, 4004. 

filled with, 3640. 
Glooms, dread winter spreadshis, 5669. 
Glories afar off shine bright, 1929. 

float between earth and heaven, 
1938. 
Glory, a gleam of, 4388. 

a, never sung, 5031. 

and shame, 1930. 

from the hill, 5043. 

his aim and, 4747. 

is like a circle in water, 1928. 

is shame and guilt, 4511. 

ne'er boast so dire a thirst of, 923. 

the effulgence of his, 4440. 

the greater dim the less, 1927. 

the outcourts of, 4387. 

the paths of, lead to the grave, 
1936. 

thirst of, quells love of life, 298. 

waits thee, go where, 4219. 

who pants for, 1932. 
Glove, a, upon that hand, 876. 
Glow by day, smile by night, 1952. 
Glow-worm lights his gem, 1940. 

pale his uneffectual fire, 1939. 
Glow-worms afar off shine bright, 

1929. 
Gluttony ne'er looks to heaven, 1945. 
Gnats are unnoted, 580. 
Goblins, we talk with, 1539. 
God, a foe to, 2409. 

a, or beast, 3055. 

all but, is changing, 570. 

all is of, 607. 

all lies within the will of, 4020. 

all mercy is a God unjust, 2407. 

alone was seen in heaven, 4634. 

altar stairs to, 1544. 

an atheist half believes, 220. 

and man, foe to, 556. 

and woman, faith in, 1275. 

bids us do good for evil, 2317. 

commands, I know my, 3588. 

cannot love, 5544. 

descends to visit men, 1948. 

erects a house of prayer, 675. 



God, every path leads to, 4074. 
footsteps of the, 1162. 
had I but served my, 2425. 
happy the man who sees a, 4085. 
hath set his rainbow, 3498. 
heaven deny thee her, 962. 
helps all workers, 4620. 
he died, fearing, 1411. 
he's ti-ue to, 1550. 
honest man's noblest work of, 219$ 
is light, 2755. 
is love, 1953. 

is the miracle to man, 3255. 
is the perfect poet, 3903. 
is thy law, thou mine, 3585. 
knows when we shall meet, 3709. 
let us be backed with, 500. 
let us think more of, 4194. 
life a breath of, 3077. 
lives, 1460. 

look through nature up to, 2384. 
made all pleasures innocent, 3852. 
made him, 3037. 
made not his work for man to 

mend, 1949. 
made the country, 834. 
made thee perfect, 651. 
may be had for asking, 1947. 
ne'er dooms to waste, 1330. 
never changeth, 3746. 
nothing can be accidental with, 

4075. 
nor man, no law of, 3833. 
nought but, can satisfy the soul, 

791. 
or man, love is the way to know, 

2866. 
ordered motion, 3073. 
our fathers', 3752. 
proclaims his own, 4392. 
Quakers please man and, 4104. 
save the king, 3796. 
sees, in clouds, 3446. 
sent singers upon earth, 4624. 
servant of, 3478. 
sing of glory to, 660. 
smiles as he always smiled, 4076. 
that thou art happy, owe to, 3584. 
the first garden made, 1885. 
the heart of, 5083. 
the messengers of, 141. 
the spirit of, 681. 
the sunflower turns on her, 5000. 
there is no, 222. 
they serve well, 604. 
thou material, 4996. 
thought on me his child, 4076. 
to, thy country, and thy friend 

be true, 1687. 
took the work, 731. 
true hearts spread to, 3999. 
we may ascend to, 3440. 
what, hath joined, let no man part, 

1541. 



702 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



God, who builds a church to, 671. 

•who lovc-th us, 3994. 

whoever fears, 5855. 

who made for thee aud me, 799. 

will not love thee less, 3004. 

your father should be as a, 1641. 
Goddess fair and free, 3262. 
God's acre, the burial ground, 2009. 

ambassador, 6S6. 

errands never fail, 40S1. 

great pictures sung, 5031. 

heavens above us bend, 1838. 

hours are never late, 4083. 

will moves freely, 40S2. 

love seemed lost upon him, 1173. 

providence seemins estranged, 
1192. 
Gods, I crave no pelf, 1954. 

look down, you, 3098. 

draw near the nature of, 3217. 

made thee poetical, 3S65. 

seats of the, 703. 

that dwells with, 282S. 

the, are deaf to vows, 3572. 

the, are just, 2-307. 

the, grow angry, 2510. 

the, implore not, 1141. 

the most mighty, 216. 

the, see everywhere, 1955. 

this darling of the, 646. 

to love and be wise i9 hardly 
granted to, 2S8S. 

to meet their, 4851. 
Going, the order of your, 3706. 
Gom\a thirst for, 279. 

all are slaves to, 824. 

all that glisters is not, 170. 

and scarlet of the sun, 5345. 

can, calm passion. 1964. 

can compass hardest things, 3309. 

can love be bought with, 5608. 

cursed lust of, 1962. 

finer threads than, 4074. 

flood all the east with, 5021. 

I'm growing frugal of my, 3647. 

judges and senates have been 
bought for, 498. 

locks as pure as, 2083. 

may help trade, 3308. 

more gold begets, 5436. 

nor love, nor scorn, 3541. 

of elms and birches, 3629. 

on the virgin, 3374. 

patines of bright, 4891. 

petitions not sweetened with, 3811. 

plate sin with, 166. 

poison to men's souls, 1960. 

prefer wisdom to, 1964. 

raises armies, 3308. 

saves the thief, 1959. 

some men deem, a sod, 2981. 

that I misht live with my, 3306. 

the lust of, 27:>. 

the man is the, 4144. 



Gold, the power, 5608. 

thou mayest touch, 5603. 

to gild refined, 1461. 

to Bell your offices for, 3637. 

turns into yellow, 1008. 

what can it not do and undo, 1959, 
Golden-rod, 1 lie amid the, 1966. 

the blaze of. 262. 
Gondolier, silent rows the, 5461. 
Goon, and 1 will follow thee. I'M. 

to the woods and hills, 3451. 
Good company, good wine, good 
welcome. 5614. 

deny us for our. . 

is oft interred with their bones, 26. 

is that darkening, 2057. 

more abundant grows, 1969. 

name in man and woman, 1205. 

the, are better made by ill, 56. 

the bad want to pass for, 1970. 

the, die first, li>74. 

the final goal of ill, 734. 

their luxury was doing, 1973. 

things answer good intents, 935. 

to forgive, best to forget, 1768. 

to study household, 5778. 
Good-humor can prevail, 619. 

keep, still, 619. 
Good-nature and good sense must 

join, 1765. 
Goodness, growing to a pleurisy, 2849. 

in a garb of formality, 4411. 

none would choose, 3969. 
Good-will makes intelligence, 2452. 
Gore, seas of, 611. 

Gorgons, hydras, and Chima?ras. 1051. 
Government, an old lazy, 3927. 

for forms of, 19S3. 

makes them seem divine, 1985. 
Governments which curb not evils, 

5482. 
Grace, a soft and pensive, 337. 

and virtue kin, 1992. 

beyond the reach of art. 3S79. 

caressing and exquisite, 1994. 

is founded in dominion, 395. 

me no grace, 5430. 

that nothing lacked, 1995. 

the power of, 3431. 

was in all her steps. 1991. 

we have forgot, 19S8. 

who does nothing with better, 
3435. 
Graces serve them as enemies, 1987. 

to the grave, -534. 

which no methods teach, 3409. 
Grain, a crop of blighted, 4260. 
Grains of gold, 5611. 
Grandeur is a dream, 3071. 
Grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, 977. 
Grass, wither from thy feet, 962. 
Grasshoppers, the, are still, 5413. 
Grasshopper, the joys of earth are 
thine, 1996. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



"03 



Gratitude, the still small voice of, 5192. 
Grave, eager to anticipate the, 4680. 

men shiver when thou'rt named, 
2002. 

a moment on that, 10S6. 

from, to gay, 582. 

funeral marches to the, 2010. 

it consecrates each, 2009. 

leap into the, 4980. 

morn will beam on thy, 4359. 

o'er some new opened, 5091. 

the, gainsays flattery, 2004. 

the, is not its goal, ^737. 

the paths of glory lead to the, 
1076. 

to cool it for the, 5199. 

with flowers bestrewed. 2334. 
Graves, ghosts have started from 
their, 1915. 

grass grows above all, 2001. 

to find dishonorable, 2019. 

worms, and epitaphs, 2042. 
Great men, could, thunder, 2014. 

men may jest with saints, 2015. 

souls are portions of eternity, 2029. 

without aiming to be great, 2030. 
Greatness and I were compelled to 
kiss, 2016. 

fallen out with fortune, 201S. 

I have touched the highest point 
of all my, 52. 

our only is that we aspire, 117. 

some achieve, 2013. 

those dreams of, 5516. 

upstart, 5353. 
Greece, sad relic of departed worth, 

2035. 
Greeks joined Greeks, 5585. 

when Greeks met, 297. 
Greenhouse, loves a, 1887= 
Greetings, such cordial, 3744. 
Grief, a bootless, 2051. 

as full of, as ago, 2047. 

bears such an emphasis, 2049. 

darkness, like a mother of, 1001. 

each substance of a, 2041. 

hath twenty shadows, 2041. 

hath two tongues. 2052. 

is a tattered tent, 2056. 

lies all within, 2043. 

messenger of, 34S5. 

oppressed with, 2721. 

should be the instructor, 2059. 

shows much love, 2046. 

that burns, 5121. 

that does not speak, 4786. 

the enemy of the living, 33S1. 

the holy name of, 2055. 

the tint of, 2061. 

what, I should forget, 3019. 

what need to forestall, 2054. 
Griefs, our, should not spread far, 
4803. 

the, are ended, 4256. 



Griefs, the heart doth wound, 3400. 

when we would unfold our, 2523. 
Grooms, unpolished, 5539. 
Grotto, rolls o'er my, 5402. 
Grove nods at grove, 1886. 
Groves dismantled roar, 4934. 

grow up, 5346. 

were God's rirst temples, 5343. 
Grows with his growth. 1252. 
Grudge, the ancient, 2066. 
Grundv. what is your opinion, Mrs., 

£381. 
Guest, no unwelcome, 5622. 

that becomes the table. 1640. 

welcome the coming, 2U68. 
Guests, unbidden, 2067. 
Gulf, he that leaps the wide. 999. 
Gulfs, to what, a single deviation 

leads, 2073. 
Guilt intimidates the brave, 2071. 

is the source of sorrow, 2099. 
Guiltiness will speak. 2u7u. 
Guinea and seven shilling pieces, 1590. 
Guinea, the jingling of the, 499. 
Gun and dog, 4861. 

they durst not stay to Are a, 1891. 
Gunpowder, hot as, 847. 

Habit, thy, costly as thy purse can 
buy, 1298. 

Habits reach the dignity of crimes, 

2076. 
Had we never loved so kindly, 2928. 
Hags, secret, black, t and midnight, 

5723. 
Hail, independence, 2385. 

source of being, 1160. 

wedded love, 3121. 
Hair, draw you with a single, 2077. 

he could divide a, 2766. 

her glossy. 355. 

golden, like sunlight. 2080. 

when you see fair, be pitiful. 2084. 
Hairs, his silver, S4. 
Halls, awful are thy silent, 3729. 
Hamlet, so poor a man as. 1823. 
Hand, adore the, that gives the blow, 
4258. 

bounty of thy, 3222. 

built by no vulgar, 2076. 

grasps hand, 1S33. 

her, lacks means, 1926. 

let my, lie in your own. 20S5. 

let thy, less than woman's, 904. 

open as day, 601. 

the. which'upholds it, 4080. 

to die by one's own. -it» 7 7 . 

to hand' and foot to foot. 304. 

touch of a vanished. 4~ 

white, delicate, dimpled, 2086. 
Handel and Bononcini, 1263. 
Hands are full of business, 3662. 

by fairy. 4S6. 

kinder 'than thine, 1923. 



704 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Hands, leave wringing of your, 5222. 
keep your, out of his pocket, 3311 
now join your, 12(>4. 
our, have met, 3720. 
shall our pale withered, 94. 
we go to use our, 5097. 
Happiness, bitter to look at, 2088. 
consists not, 1839. 
depends on dinner, 1225. 
domestic, 2096. 
finds, unblighted, 2729. 
if solid, we prize, 2093. 
the pursuit of all that live, 2092. 
means of, 5681. 
our aim is, 2092. 

our, will grow round books, 457. 
was born a twin, 2095. 
that makes the heart afraid, 2094. 
something between us and, 2062. 
sincere is fixed to no spot, 2090. 
they glide away like, 516. 
Happy are they that hear their detrac- 
tions, 1204. 
in that we are not over-happy, 

2089. 
it is well for us to be, 2100. 
the, have called thee so, 4687. 
the, have whole days, 2091. 
they whom gentle stars unite, 
3134. 
Hard to hide the sparks of nature, 

3438. 
Hare, whose valor plucks dead lions, 

893. 
Harebell raised its head, 1676. 
Harm, to win us to our, .-5179. 
Harmony, no touch of, 5533. 
or true delight, 4726. 
that reigns, 3443. 
touches of sweet, 3397. 
Harms, beg often our own, 4065. 
Harper lays his palm on his harp, 

3652. 
Harshness gives offence, 3880. 
Hat, the fashion of his, 4190. 
Hate can burn in hearts once changed, 
2118. 
furroweth the brow, 2114. 
love turns to, 2825. 
no passion more spectral than, 

2119. 
what we fear, 1654. 
wounds of deadly, 2112. 
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure, 

2121. 
Have more than thou showest, 742. 
Havoc and confusion, 4321. 
Haws, sweet is the air with, 4881. 
Hazard of the die, 563. 

what he fears to lose, 5775. 
Hazards, great things are achieved, 

25. 
Hawthorn bush, with seats beneath 
the shade, 2123. 



He builded better than he knew, 598. 
conies too near, 550. 
bath a tear for pity, 601. 
knew whatever's to be known, 

2568. 
prayeth best who loveth best, 

3994. 
serves all who dares be true, 2926. 
smiles and sleeps, 638. 
that hath a will to die, 1048. 
that complies against his will, 

192. 
that dies this year is quit for 

next, 1042. 
that intends well, 1176. 
that is down can fall no lower, 53. 
that no more may say is listened 

to, 1044. 
that dies pays all debts, 1115. 
that runs may read, 5372. 
that would win his dame, 879. 
took the bread, 5320. 
watched, and wept, and felt for 

all, 683. 
who fights and runs away, 1694. 
who tempts asperses the tempted, 

821. 
who was half myself, 3127. 
Head and front of my offending, 3115. 
I give this heavy weight from off 

my, 1. 
I'll unhair thy, 5221. 
keep a good tongue in thy, 5307. 
he shakes his, 3928. 
one small, could carry all he 

knew, 1367. 
uneasy lies the, 2526. 
which innocence secures, 2444. 
Heads, hide their diminished, 2024. 
Health and graven ess, 5902. 

and pleasure to the young, 5278. 
and purse, 5017. 

is the vital principle of bliss, 2126. 
leisure, 4294. 

peace, and competence, 2125. 
springs from contentment, 2581. 
symptom of a mind in, 2172. 
to that cheek, 4261. 
when, is lost, 2124. 
with, all pleasure flies, 2124. 
Heard melodies are sweet, 3402. 
Hearers, too deep for his, 198. 
Hearing, 'tis a good, 5763. 
Hearse, the wen-plumed, 1865. 

undertakers walk before the, 4045. 
with scutcheons, 3384. 
Heart, a fairy city of the, 5462. 
a, for any fate, 3744. 
a noble, hath pawned an open 

hand, 524. 
a merry, goes all the day, 617. 
a mother's, is weak, 3368. 
a naked human, 2128. 
a truer, nobler, trustier, 591. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



'05 



Heart, a Milling, 103. 

absence makes the, grow fonder, 

14. 
awake to flowers, 2734. 
behold the window of my, 4983. 
be loved as, can love, 2879. 
breaking, and tearful eyes, 5813. 
bursting, and maddening brain, 

2938. 
congenial to 1113', 4604. 
crammed with arrogance, 1707. 
even in a hero's, 1249. 
every pang that rends the, 2260. 
far from fraud, 1680. 
grieve his, 4549. 
crows richer that its lot is poor, 

2282. 
I have too grieved a, 3700. 
is hard, where a, 2371. 
inhuman or effeminate, 2058. 
he lies to the, 948. 
how light is thy, 3454. 
I had rather coin my, 5113. 
I have no claim on your, 3717. 
I opened the doors of my, 2101. 
I will send home your, 3722. 
if guilt's in that, 2970. 
in aught that tries the, 57. 
is not of ice, 883. 
it bears an aching, 2994. 
lay a battery to her, 869. 
let me wring your, 5222. 
many a feeling, 3719. 
men without a, 4731. 
must have to cherish, 5079. 
my, leaps up, 4134. 
my, untravelled, fondly turna to 

thee, 11. 
of a maiden, 2973. 
of the world, 1389. 
on her lips, 349. 
once left desolate, 4730. 
plead his love-suit to her, 870. 
preaching down a daughter's, 

1770. 
reigns and glows in every, 3981. 
sensual throbs convulse the, 1688. 
she wants a, 815. 
set on fire, 71. 

some, responds to his own, 5077. 
thanks to the, 1729. 
that has truly loved, 777. 
the bruised, 5841. 
the echo of my, 2977. 
the, has an instinct, 4602. 
the hunger of a faithful, 1850. 
the, is a part of heaven, 2129. 
the secret anniversaries of the, 

2163. 
the, which grief assails, 4755. 
untainted, 2451. 

was wax to receive, marble to re- 
tain, 2130. 
watchman to my, 60. 



Heart, we bear them with us in our, 
1478. 

we cannot heal the, 745. 
Heart-ache, we end the, 4!>73. 
Heart's blood turned to tears, 2129. 

deepest things, no language for 
the, 2598. 
Hearts are dust, 1460. 

cheer our sick, 4329. 

considered their own, 4647. 

defect of manners loseth, 3089. 

dry as summer's dust, 1974. 

false as stairs of sand, 889. 

fills their, with hate, 3299. 

fortunes, and beings blend, 3134. 

in human, 5302. 

in thought are one, 5081. 

made sad or gay, 1633. 

of sorrow and eyes of tears, 123%. 

our, are all with thee, 3761. 

surprised and stolen, 2880. 

their two, 1419. 

there is no union here of, 1103. 

to conquer willing, 3809. 

to higher levels rise, 3539. 

you hate me with your, 2106. 

young, yearn together, 2978. 
Heat not a furnace for your foe, 544 

the storm of, 2131. 
Heaven, a breast bestowed on, 691. 

alone is given away, 1947. 

and earth, more things in, 2564. 

and grace, unreconciled to, 3986. 

as far as earth from, 579. 

betwixt earth and, 4133. 

by a flash from, 2673. 

divides the state of man, 3581. 

doth with us as we with torches, 
1457. 

dyes of, 4129. 

farther off from, 4227. 

frescoes the dome of, 3452. 

gave to woman, 5795. 

has to all allotted, 4052. 

hath a hand, 4064. 

his face to, 487. 

impartial to mankind, 4071. 

is above all, 2134. 

it smells to, 3634. 

if, have any plague in store, 958. 

intimates eternity to man, 1430. 

hides the book of Fate, 1629. 

I will send thy soul to, 2108. 

if, would make me a world, 1553. 

in hope to merit, 2136. 

is as the book of God, 2135. 

is full of children, 648. 

languages in earth or, 658. 

leave her to, 748. 

made him poor, 3876. 

opens on my eyes, 1004. 

quite in the verge of, 1066. 

nor earth, 4231. 

o'er all surrounding, 4869. 



706 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Heaven of hell, a bell of heaven, 3246. 

remedies we ascribe to, 4213. 

shall we serve, 2132. 

so high in, no eye can mark, 
1293. 

smiling from, 1442. 

sends us meat, 810. 

strike at, with staves, 4162. 

that made me honest, 2192. 

the eye of, is hid, 3503. 

the floor of, 4891. 

the grace of, 386. 

the help of, 2133. 

the law of, 4654. 

the livery of the court of, 2335. 

the purple walls of, 3240. 

the steep and thorny way to, 1456. 

the sacred mysteries of, 1198. 

the ways of, 4069. 

there's husbandry in, 3502. 

they made music in, 3411. 

to find the way to, 677. 

too gross for, 4122. 

tries the earth, 2496. 

wafted up to, 710. 

was exhaled, and went to, 1073. 

was full of fiery shapes, 4041. 

the vain toil surveys, 124. 

too heavy for a man that hopes 
for, 2203. 

who knows, save, 24. 

with less of earth in them than, 
73. 

why did, hear me, 641. 
Heaven's gate opens, 3998. 

hand or will, I argue not against, 
419, 

offer we refuse, 3660. 
Heavens, a silence in the, 4927. 

can you hear, 724. 

rain odors on you, 385. 

the, blaze forth the death of 
princes, 1021. 

the, look down, 3620. 

the, observe degree, 3673. 

thou wert before the, 2757. 
Heaviness that hangs on me, 4688. 
Hectors, a land of, 4425. 
Hecuba, what's, to him, 37. 
Height, to boast your slippery, 4916. 
Heir, the impatient, 1482. 
Heirs, to, unknown, descends the 

store, 2140. 
Hell, a populous and smoky city, 2149. 

behold the beach of, 5027. 

better to reign in, 119. 

bid him go to, 2147. 

divinity of, 2322. 

forced wedlock is a, 3112. 

hath no limits, 2141. 

he that keeps the gate of, 3931. 

is a city much like London, 2149. 

is more bearable than nothing- 
ness, 2144. 



Hell is paved with good intentions, 
2148. 

is the wrath of God, 214:j. 

making earth a, 2136. 

never mention to ears polite, 2146. 

Pluto and, 898. 

pour the sweet milk of concord 
into, 2110. 

quiet is, 4111. 

the damned use that word in, 285. 

the fear of, is a hangman's whip, 
2230. 

to reign in, is worth ambition, 
1279. 

towards the gates of, 4419. 

unloving life is, 3003. 
Help and hindrance, 2102. 
Hence, guilty joys, 1253. 
Heraldry, the boast of, 1076. 

proved valiant or discreet, 138. 
Heralds high before him run, 942. 

rake from coffined clay, 914. 
Herbs and flowers, he hears the, 4763. 

and other country messes, 809. 
Hercules and Mars, the beards of, 889. 
Hereafter, on the shore of the, 1838. 
Here lies the friend most loved, 1416. 

rests his head upon the lap of 
earth, 1418. 

she lies, a pretty bud, 1412. 
Here's a sigh to those who love me, 

1606. 
Here's to the maiden, 5279. 
Hermit, a reverend, 2150. 

see the sage, 4203. 

the veriest, 5183. 
Hero in our eyes, 2155. 

never, was more embarrassed ,3580. 

the, is the world-man, 2157. 

the, when his sword, 2156. 
Heroes are much the same, 2152. 

troops of, die, 299. 
Hesperides, the far, 1358. 
Hesperus, thou bringest all good 

things, 2158. 
Hexameter, the fountain's column, 

3794. 
Highlands, swelling blue, 3379. 
Hill, the church that topped the, 2596. 

yon high eastern, 3339. 
Hills, dales, woods, lawns, spires, 
2594. 

fogs that hovered around the, 3348. 

peep o'er, 3375. 

sounded between thy, 4339. 

that echo to the herds, 4299. 

the everlasting, 776. 

ye swelling, 4852. 
Himself, he that respects, 4529. 

to prate about, 4509. 
Hire which greatness gives, 5275. 
Hiss, a dismal universal, 4468. 
History handed down from ages, 506L 

hath but one past, 2159. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



707 



Hit, a very palpable, 
Hoards, whose precious, 4582. 

Hobgoblin's nonentity. 1H12. 
Hold, loth to quit its, 1056. 
Eole, a, in your coats, 4244. 
Holiday, this is nature's, 3158. 
Holidays, if the year were playing, 
2162. 

the holiest of all, 2163. 
Holly-tree, hast thou stood to see the, 

2166. 
Holy Writhath judgment shown, 2406. 
Homage, an alms of, 4922. 
Home, a dearer spot than all the rest, 
2184. 

all countries are a wise man's, 
19S2. 

dunce that has been kept at, 1322. 

from which to run away, 508. 

is the resort of loye, joy, peace, 
2170. 

kindred, friends and country, 147S. 

men when they are from, 3259. 

pleasure felt at, 2172. 

sanctify the joys of, 4480. 

that plighted loye endears, 5819. 

the parted bosom clings to, 2175. 

the patriot's best country is at, 
2173. 

the welcome as we draw near, 2177. 

there's no place like, 2181. 

to the weary, 215S. 

world without a, 2168. 

without hearts there is no, 2176. 

would I were safe at, 5048. 
Home-keeping youth haye homely 

wits, 2167.- 
Home-made dishes driye from home, 

2185. . 
Homer, I can no more belieye, blind, 
2186. 

will be allthebooks you need, 21S7. 
Homes, forced from their, 1474. 

of England, the stately, 2183. 
Honest as this world goes, 2190. 
Honesty, corruption wins not more 
than, 58. 

shines there, 2630. 
Honey-bees, so work the, 3581. 
Honey, they surfeited with, 5054. 
Honor, a dangerous, 3765. 

an empty bubble, 5561. 

and shame from no condition rise, 
2226. 

better to die than wound my, 2222. 

bright, perseyerance keeps, 3S05. 

decks the turf that wraps their 
clay, 2154. 

from thy suffering, 892. 

if you were born to, 2212. 

is like that glassy bubble, 2216. 

is won with brisk attempt, 2219. 

loye, more than I fear death, 2210. 

more precious than life, 2208. 



Honor, nothing meets my eye but, 
2231. 

peereth in the meanest habit, 167. 

plunge into a war for, 2223. 

purchased by merit, 2197. 

rooted in dishonor stood, 2232. 

6et, in one eye. 2210. 

the greater share of, 294. 

the hurt that, feels, 499. 

the post of, shall be mine, 2225. 

the sons of, follow and obey, 2228. 

the strongest passion 1 have is, 
2229. 

travels in a strait so narrow. 2207. 

void of all, 4102. 
Honor's a fine imaginary notion, 2220. 

a lease for lives to come, 2215. 

a sacred tie, 2221. 

at the stake. 2u20. 

but a word, 2217. 
Honors best thrive, 2200. 
Hope, a milder tyrant than despair, 
2255. 

a mother's secret, 3369. 

a smiling rainbow, 2244. 

and fear, an equal poise of. 2240. 

and fear chase our course, 2261. 

bade the world farewell, 2264. 

delayed, faintness of, 3779. 

farewell, and farewell, fear, 1450. 

flies with swallows' wings, 2233. 

humbly then, 2253. 

in thy sweet garden grow, 2265. 

is a lover's staff, 2235. 

is born of doubt, 2243. 

is coldest, 2234. 

in our hearts doth stay, 2245. 

leave the light of, behind, 142. 

like the taper's light, 2259. 

most befriends us here, 2256. 

newborn, died at even, 2246. 

nor bate a jot of heart or, 2239. 

other, had she none, 1213. 

some sweet, lies buried. 2249. 

springs eternal, 2252. 

that charming word, 2257. 

the miserable have no medicine 
but. 2236. 

too high for, 2535. 

travels through, 2254. 

when life's last embers burn, 2266. 

while there is life, there's, 2251. 

withering fled, 2120. 

things out of, 5465. 
Hope's last aleam in man's extremity, 

2263. 
Hopes, belied our fears, 1099. 

like towering falcons, 2259. 

numbers have been lost by, 2242. 

vain and empty joys. 2701. 
Horizon, the, is serene, 5782. 
Horror extends his domain, 5669. 
Horse, a thousand, 2270. 

death on his pale, 1050. 



•08 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Horse, my kingdom for a, 2269. 

tedious as a tired, 464. 

what a, should have, 2268. 

some giory in their, 2287. 
Hortensius, his friend, 538. 
Hospitality, doing deeds of, 2274. 
Host, a fortune-telling, 5050. 

the starry, 3320. 
Hostess, my fairer, 4418. 

there stands the, 4735. 
Hounds shall wake the morn, 2293. 
Hour, a single, 1323. 

an, ago, it was nine, 3356. 

catch the transient, 5259. 

each, is as a bird, 3169. 

from, to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
3356. 

if we do hut watch the, 4313. 

let this, stand accursed, 955. 

no future, can rend my heart, 
2064. 

soft, which wakes the wish, 5405. 

that claims for love, 5414. 

that tears my sou! from thee, 3714. 

the sabbath of an, 3552. 

the stilly, 518. 

thoughts of the last hitter, 3456. 

triumphs of an, 2710. 

when lovers' vows seem sweet, 
1445. 
Hour-glass, into an, 5893. 
Hours, at morning, 5647. 

have stolen unmarked away, 1366. 

her, are numbered, 2493. 

the Graces lead the, 3154. 

the silent, steal on, 1012. 

the unhappy have but, 2091. 

those bright, 5415. 

'tis wise to talk with our past, 
1487. 

to talk with our past, 4302. 
House, a babe in a, 2405. 

a handsome, to lodge a friend, 
2376. 

and home, eaten me out of, 1339. 

for all living, 2008. 

home to the narrow, 1875. 

I have shot mine arrow o'er the, 
20. 

low lies that, 2440. 

how should so many people in one, 
1239. 

she is my, 5730. 

the sleepers of the, 104. 

the wind moaning over the, 1134. 

you take my, 102. 
Houses, in some Irish, 4029. 

old, mended, 507. 

plague o' both your, 959. 
How calm, how beautiful comes on, 
518. 

changed since last, 569. 

charming is a park, 1678. 

could he see to do them, 3944. 



now could I know I should love thee, 
2805. 

dear to me the hour, 1443. 

fearful 'tis to cast one's eyes so 
low, 1284. 

happy could I be with either, 
1719. 

shocking must thy summons be, 
O death, 1077. 

slight a chance, 564. 
Howards, the blood of all the, 137. 
Hum of mighty workings, 3442. 
Human tilings are i-ubject to decay, 

1618. 
Humanity, a rarer spirit never steered, 
3036. 

to fallen, 2590. 
Humankind, the history of, 4835. 
Humbleness, whispering, 4961. 
Humility and modest stillness, 3764. 

that low sweet root, 2286. 
Humor, native, entertains, 4938. 

she has her, 3130. 
Humors turn with climes, 3091. 
Hunger, heart-gnawing, 1483. 

who bears, best, 1372. 
Hunter, a mightv, 2297. 
Hunting, the laws of, 2298. 
Huntsman, gay, robust, and bold, 
2292. 

the healthy, 2291. 
Huntsmen wind the merry horn, 2299. 
Hurricane has swept the wood, 2302. 
Hurricane's distant voice, 2301. 
Hurricanes, wilder grow the, 2303. 
Husband, a light wife makes a heavy, 
3102. 

dead, is then your, 5627. 

is, as the, the wife is, 2307. 

good works in her, 5737. 

hath no other wife, 2413. 

thy, is thy life, 3105. 
Hut, love in a, 2931. 
Hymen's powers, fools spurn, 3137. 
Hypocrite had left his mask, 2335. 
Hypocrisy infects the holy priest, 
2338. 

may claim this merit, 2330. 

neither man nor angel can discern, 
2323. 

I am a child to chiding, 621. 

am but what you make me, 1631. 
am declined into the vale of years, 

88. 
am nothing if not critical, 916. 
am shamed through all my nature, 

783. 
am'Sir Oracle, 1771. 
and my bosom, 5202. 
and sorrow sit, 4787. 
awoke one morning, 1580. 
cannot tell how truth may be, 

4939. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



709 



ha< 



I eare for nobody, 239S. 

could weep and I could laugh, 

3167. 
dare do all that may become a 

man, 844. 
depart, whither I know not, 1477. 
do forget myself, 5617. 
do not like " but yet/* 513. 
do not love thee, Doctor Fell, 

1255. 

ive away myself, 3104. 
lad rather chop this hand off, 

1151. 

hardly vet have learned to insin- 
uate, 860. 
have in me something dangerous, 

992. 
have neither wit, nor words, nor 

worth, 424. 
have set my life, 563. 
have sworn thee fair, 3570. 
know a bank, 1721. 
know not seems, 2315. 
know thee not, 87. 
lisped in numbers, 1568. 
live, but live to die, 1085. 
loathe all affectation, 69. 
love thee not, 2805. 
may share thy presence, 1825. 
must be cruel, to be kind, 938. 
must never trust thee more, 5431. 
must paint it, 1749. 
never dare to write, 248. 
only can love thee, 3007. 
saw her at a county ball, 284. 
say the tale as said to me, 4939. 
see in the south, 709. 
shall not choose a mortal, 690. 
shall not look on his like again, 

3040. 
shot his fellow, 561. 
6hun no strife nor pang, 1807. 
sing because I must, 4623. 
stood among them but not of them, 

2389. 
throw my gage, 560. 
told you so, 55. 

will be cruel, not unnatural, 937. 
will be gone, 1202. 
will endure thy company, 2393. 
will wear him in my heart, 2382. 
would not always reason, 3182. 
I'll answer him by law, 2615. 

speak to it, though hell should 

gape, 1203. 
strike thee dead, 1156. 
Ice, a coal of fire on the, 3284. 

entangled in the gathering, 5668. 
the deepest, 1671. 
the sail is stiff with, 1864. 
Icicles hang by the wall, 5664. 
Idea, to teach the young, how to shoot, 

1354. 
Ideas, pleasure from, 3251. 



Idler, a watch that wants both hands, 
'.'■;4y. 

the bii*v world an, 2347. 
Idleness, folly, and want, 3808. 

1 shape myself to, 5325. 
Idol, do proper homage to thine, 

885. 
Idolatry, the form of its, 4537. 

to kneel, 352. 
If I depart from thee, 3703. 

she will, she will, 5785. 

thou art rich, 5602. 

thou didst consent to this most 
cruel act, 1184. 

thou more rnurmurest, 5218. 

thou wouldst be happy, 3846. 

we are marked to die, 294. 

ye know, why ask, 5047.' 
Ignorance, blind and naked, 2355. 

error is Avorse than, 1428. 

errs in, not in cunning, 2854. 

garrulous, 5051. 

is bliss, where, 2353. 

is the curse of God, 2349. 

it was a childish, 4227. 

from, comfort flows, 2352. 

little haughty, 1159. 

mocked for, 4163. 

of good and ill, 5506. 
Ill blows the wind, 5636. 

deeds are doubled with evil words, 
1448. 

habits gather, 2074. 
Ills, to run away from, 4979. 
Illusion is brief, 4241. 
Illustrious dead, familiar with th', 2871. 
Image doth unfix my hair, 1656. 

of a day, 5897. 

than I resign thine, 4217. 
Imagination, bright, reigns, 4536. 

can. boast hues like hers, 3461. 

frames events, 1666. 

is the air of mind, 2360. 
Imitations, one that feeds on, 811. 
Immortal though no more, 2035. 
Immortality attends the former, 5499. 

fame is the shade of, 126. 

this longing after, 2365. 

thought settles, 5213. 
Impediment, marched on without, 
5553. 

we marched on without, 4043. 
Imperfections, with all my, on my 

head, 23. 
Impious, 'tis, to be sad, 3385. 
Impossible, what's, can't be, 2372. 
Impossibilities seem just, 1712. 
Impotent to rise, 4701. 
Impudence, dull, rooted, callous, 2375. 

he that has but, 2374. 
In time we hate, 1654. 
Incense, fumes of sacred, 3989. 

to the skies, 5610. 
Inconstancy, constant to her, 188. 



710 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Independence by true reason taught, 
2387. 

heaven's best gift, 2385. 

thy spirit let me share, 2386. 
Independent, the glorious privilege of 

being, 2388. 
Index-learning turns no student pale, 

2390. 
Indian, lo ! the poor, 3446. 

provinces, the wealth of, 825. 

summer, the dead summer's soul, 
2392. 
Indiscretion finds, 3635. 
Indolent, the, innumerable stand, 2348. 
Indulgence spoils the base, 3290. 
Industry, careering far, 2403. 

experience is achieved by, 1485. 

supports us all, 2401. 

the sweat of, would dry, 2400. 
Infamy, men of, 5482. 
Infancy, even in, 3695. 

tetchy and wayward, 3035. 
Infant crying in the night, 3050. 

mother to her, smiling, 3365. 
Infants of humble busy wives, 4456. 
Infected, all seems, 2475. 
Infections that the sun sucks up, 

951. 
Infidel, a daring, 2408. 
Influence, shone with poetic, 3873. 
Informer, thou suborned, 4819. 
Ingratitude, a monster of, 2426. 

filial, 2431. 

I hate, 2423. 

the bulk of this, 2427. 

thou marble-hearted fiend, 2429. 
Inheritor of a world, 638. 
Ink, a small drop of, 5852. 

let there be gall enough in thy, 
2438. 

she is fallen into a pit of, 2411. 
Inn, every house was an, 2277. 

the warmest welcome at an, 2439. 

the world's an, 2699. 
Inns, you should not go to, 2441. 
Innocence and health, 4377. 

Justice stumbles on, 2511. 

shall make accusation blush, 244b. 

the silence of pure, 2442. 
Insect, the careful, 367. 
Instances, wise saws and modern, 86. 
Instinct and reason, how dividb, 2446. 

reason raise o'er, 4151. 
Instruments, a band of, 3839. 

in ambition's hand, 5092. 

of ill, 5481. 
Intelligence, good-will makes, 2452. 

star-eyed, 3482. 
Intention, such a fervor of, 3802. 
Intents, I will stoop my, 4962. 
Intercourse from soul to soul, 2662. 
Intoxication, the best of life is but, 

1314. 
Inundations deep and yeliow, 4585. 



Invention, all admired the, 2453. 

the heaven of, 3394. 
Iris, the many-colored, 5120. 
Island of bliss, 1384. 
Isle in a stormy sea, 5298. 
Isles that bloom afar, 5859. 

those, of light, 4896. 
It is a fearful thing, 1087. 

is a wise father that knows, 1639. 

might have been, 4188. 
Italia, who hast, fatal beauty, 2457. 
Italy, bright as summer, 2456. 

garden of the world, 2458. 
Ivy clings to wood or stone, 4785. 

how could fancy crown with 
thee, 2459. 

Jack, a swearing, 437. 

lived in his saddle, 2295. 
Jacks, silken, sly, insinuating, 2188* 
Jade, let the galled, wince, 75. 
Jails, their owners confined to, 1882. 
January's call, come at, 2460. 
Jargon learnt by heart, 4784. 
Jealous, trifles, are to the, 2463 . 

yet he was, 2477. 
Jealousy, a life of, 2467. 

bane of friendship, 2470. 

beshrew my, 3646. 

beware of, 2466. 

calls himself affection's sentinel, 
2468. 

dislikes the world to Know it, 
2477. 

is a good spur, 1399. 

is injustice, 5796. 

its venom, 2472. 

no, but mutual truth, 3136. 

no true love without, 248S. 

so full of, is guilt. 2462. 

thou fiend of helh 2478. 
Jealousy's a seed, 2471. 

peculiar nature, 2474. 
Jest, a scornful, 2482. 

and jollity, 3263. 

and youthful jollity, 2103. 
Jest's, a, prosperity lies in the e^ 

2480. 
Jests or pranks, laugh at the, 1669. 
Jesuits have a mission, 2483. 
Jewel, as rich in such a, 5728. 
Jewels, living, 639. 

of the night, 4910. 

thy deep eyes shine like, 1512. 
John Barleycorn, inspiring bold, 1313 
Joke, dulness loves a, 2485. 
Jollity for apes, 5352. 
Jove laughs at lovers' perjuries, 283S. 

would ne'er be quiet, 2014. 
Jove's power to thunder, 1706. 
Joy, a little bird, 4813. 

a rose, 4814. 

all who would win, must share, 
2095. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



711 



Joy at weeping, 5072. 

capacity for, admits temptation, 
2490. 

envy withers at another's, 1407. 

has her tears, 2256. 

hast thou a shape, 2489. 

how natural is, 2491. 

is the mainspring, 2492. 

is undone, 2591. 

pours in, 3849. 

shall come with light, 728. 

short is his, 4S59. 

silence is the herald of, 4588. 

temperance, and repose, 3827. 

the exchange of, 2842. 

what is, 4812. 
Joys, an airy scene of transitory, 1310. 

are bubble-like, 2487. 

are but skin deep, 2488. 

disappointed, are woes, 4800. 

hence, guilty, 1253. 

that fortune brings, 1786. 

the, of meeting, 3712. 

what are past or future, 2097. 

whose echo is heaven's bliss, 4000. 
Joy's recollection is no longer joy, 

3191. 
Jubilee of man, 43S4. 
Judas kissed his master, 5335. 

thrice worse than, 947. 
Judge, a perfect, 928. 

O wise, young, 2502. 

the, enthroned, 4280. 

you shall not be my, 2506. 
Judges soon the sentence sign, 2513. 

when, have been babes, 2406. 
Judgment, green in, 5903. 

hath repented, 1472. 

his, ruled our hands, 84. 

in the note of, 4017. 

is the ground of writing well, 
5889. 

make the, good, 2212. 

men of, 4140. 

out of, 1892. 

reserve thy, 61. 
Judgments as our watches, 2514. 
Juggling fiends, 1125. 
July, the warmth of its, 5904. 
June, a morn in, 4711. 

falls asleep on flowers, 2493. 

flowery, 2495. 

is dead, 2494. 

mav pour her warm red wine, 
3*163. 

to make the paths of, 3155. 

what so rare as a day in, 2493. 
Juno's swans, 1816. 
Juries give their verdict, 2499. 
Jury passing on the prisoner's life, 
2498. 

these men make a, 2500. 
Jurymen may dine, 2513. 
Just, the actions of the, 31. 



Justice's equal scales, 2505. 
Justice finally triumphs, 2516. 

in fair round belly, 2503. 

says, take each a shell, 2626. 

should rouse itself, 2510. 

stumbles on innocence, 2511. 

the scope (if, "421. 

though, be thy pica, 3213. 

verity, temperance, 2520. 

will o'ertake the crime, 3392. 

with her lifted scale, 2512. 

Keep the windy side of the law, 2812. 
Kew, his Highness's dog at, 1278. 
Key, in a bondman's. 4961. 
Keys, his, were rusty, 4402. 
Kind, be to her virtues very, 2519. 

the voice and glad the eyes, 5620. 
Kindness, give him all, 1821. 

is wisdom, 2518. 
King, a place next the, 3224. 

an anointed, 2521. 

choose him to be your, 1804. 

here lies our lord the, 2533. 

I served my, 4191. 

of fools-cap subjects, 3861. 

of intimate delights, 5G73. 

such divinity doth hedge a, 2530. 

the countenance of the, 5333. 

the office of a, 2531. 

the presence of a, 2522. 

was a, and now is elay, 3357. 

what is a, 2532. 

who loves the law, 2535. 
King-becoming graces, 2520. 
Kings, a race of ancient, 136. 

and potentates must die, 1035. 

are forced to sell, 3963. 

but play, 5872. 

do their best, 2539. 

from, to cobblers, 4545. 

it is the curse of, 863. 

it makes gods, 2233. 

power and greatness give to, 2534. 

queens, lords, ladies, 3282. 

seek their subjects' sood, 5424. 

the right divine of, 1984. 

thousands that struck anointed, 
2525. 

vain is the gratitude of, 1997. 

what have, save ceremony, 2527. 

wretched state of, 43G3. 
Kiss, a, in the cup, 2555. 

a, of youth and love, 2558. 

as when we first begun, 2147. 

for every, I owe, 2546. 

give me one, 2543. 

I, your eyes, I kiss your hair, 
2550. 

O, delicious, 2552. 

one, and then another, 2559. 

one, before we part, 3713. 

rhymes to bliss, 2556. 

some there be that shadows, 2545k 



712 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Kiss, sweeter than stolen are the 
granted, 2551. 

the, shall he thine own, 2544. 

the, you take, 2553. 

to make a thousand a million, 2547. 

with one long, 2554. 

you may ride us with a, 2541. 
Kisses, give me, 2546. 

leaps to his, 5676. 

plucked by the roots, 2540. 

remembered after death, 4186. 

such as belong to early days, 
2558. 

sweetness shed by, 2549. 

that grew upon my lips, 2540. 
Kissing, for, not for contempt, 2542. 

the deep's serene, 5637. 
Kitten, I. had rather be a, 3866. 
Knave, tokens of a, 2562. 
Knaves and fools prevail, 4565. 

in cheating fools, 2621. 

that teach patience, 3740. 

the thriving, 5606. 

those kind of, 425. 
Knee, crook the hinges of the, 1652. 
Knees, all, were weary, 2336. 
Knell, the doleful, 2045. 
Knife and fork laid across, 5048. 
Knocks, give now nine, 4853. 
Know then thyself, 2571. 

when to speak, 547. 

ye not me, 4467. 
Knowledge, a wing to fly to heaven, 
2349. 

and wisdom, 2572. 

be innocent of the, 4494. 

by suffering entereth, 2578. 

is as food, 2566. 

is bought with care, 2577. 

is not happiness, 2574. 

is proud, 2573. 

is sorrow, 2575. 

of good and evil, 4013. 

of my sin, 4611. 

our, is ourselves to know, 2569. 

replete with fraud, 2637. 

stands on my experience, 1510. 

the price for, 1058. 

we must snatch, 2570. 

Labor, health springs from, 2581. 

is good for a man, 2591. 

is prayer, 2580. 

knocked at the gates of the morn- 
ing, 2588. 

many must, for the one, 2582. 

spread her store, 4377. 

the joy that springs from, 2587. 

the, we delight in, 2579. 

with what zeal Ave will, 2586. 
Lace, friendship in Brussels, 5076. 

the glare of broad gold, 5397. 

wizard work of silver, 1861. 
Lad, Cupid is a knavish, 945. 



Ladies call him sweet, 906. 
if, be young and lair, 5760. 
intellectual, lords of, 2306. 

like tulips, 2593. 

owe their charms to change, 2593. 
Ladies' love, unfit for. 335. 
Lady, a, in the case, 392G. 

talk six times with the same, 3142. 

when a, is in the case, 2592. 

with her daughters or nieces, 1590. 

you are the cruellest sh< 
Lake, dark and silent, 47l_!. 

she shone upon the, 3328. 

where drooped the willow, 4226. 
Lakes, the smooth expanse of crystal, 

1480. 
Lamb, one dead, is there, 3364. 
Lamentation is the right of the dead, 

3381. 
Lamp, thus o'er the dying, 1056. 
Lamps, my wasting, 3G44. 
Lancers flirt with Juliet, 3150. 
Land, God, and your native, 3754. 

I'll give thrice so much, 287. 

ill fares the, 3785. 

in civil wars, 5317. 

into the bowels of the, 5553. 

kind heaven adorned the, 2455. 

loyal to our, 3752. 

my own, my native, 2179. 

my native, good night, 43. 

no, but listens, 5314. 

of liberty, 3758. 

of the pilgrims' pride, 3758. 

of the vine and olive, 4831. 

stretched from his native, 3759. 

the, is dearer for the sea, 3615. 
Landlords, all other, 5111. 
Lands abhor each other, 3373. 

put to their books, 4046. 
Landscape, a, of mild earth, 5S05. 

now fades the glimmering, 1438. 

the, into smoke decays, 2594. 

the inverted, 5070. 
Language fades before thy spell, 3418. 

fit, there is none, 

in her eye, her check, 1401. 

jest not at preacher's, 4CC5. 

nameless in our, 1393. 

no, but a cry, 3050. 

the, of their fate, 3905. 
Languor which is not repose. 3327. 
Lark begin his flight, 2002. 

is the jay more precious than the, 
1299. 

the herald of the morn, 2600. 

the, left his nest, 2603. 

the messenger of morn, 2605. 

the music soars within the, 2604. 

the, weary of rest, 3341. 
Lass, give him his, 1809. 

the painted, 5450. 

the prettiest low-born, 320. 
Lasse6, she made the, 5802. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



713 



Laugh, inclines us more to, 3266. 

like parrots, 5457. 

not too much, 24S1. 

they, that win, 2606. 

to, were want of grace, 2608. 

when I laugh, 4474. 

where we must, 3090. 
Laughter holding his sides, 3261. 

our present, 5135. 

the passion of, 3257. 

to shake with, S65. 
Laura, if, had heen Petrarch's wife, 
5745. 

moves along the crowd, 817. 
Laureates should hoast invention, 

3864. 
Laurels that adorn their brows, 1931. 
Law, ensnare in toils of, 2627. 

good opinion of the, 2633. 

I'll answer him by, 2615. 

in, what plea so tainted, 2610. 

is the wisdom of all ages, 2622. 

mastering the science of, 2634. 

of God nor man, 3833. 

rich men rule the, 2629. 

seven hours to, 2632. 

the, make courtesy to their will, 
2616. 

the toils of, 3753. 

the, which is past depth, 2613. 

the windy side of the, 2612. 

we must not make a scarecrow of, 
2609. 

wrest the, to your authority, 2501. 
Lawn, along the, 5312. 

he climbs the, 5013. 
Laws are armed in virtue's cause, 
4429. 

God's, 22. 

grind the poor, 2629. 

live according to her, 5161. 

strain not the, 1473. 

to all facts there are, 2628. 
Law's grave study, 2631. 
Lawyer can twist words, 2625. 

sir, quoth the, 2624. 
Lawyers, an iron race, 2627. 

are too wise a nation, 2620. 

have more sense, 2619. 

let us kill all the, 2611. 
Lawyers' dealings should be just, 2630. 
Lay not that nattering unction to 

your soul, 1128. 
Laziness, the effect of, 3959. 
Leaf is growing old, 5345. 

the sere, the yellow, 1228. 
Leap year, excepting, 3314. 
Learn to labor and to wait, 3744. 
Learned, played, eat together, 1816. 

without sense, 2640. 
Learners teaching, sure of contempt, 

5118. 
Learning, a cobweb of the brain, 2637. 

a little, is a dangerous thing, 1352. 



Learning affords light, not heat, 2642. 

by study must be won, 1349. 

digests not into sense, 2641. 

enlightens to corrupt the mind, 
53647. 

how empty is, 2644. 

in the sound, 4784. 

just enough of, 2354. 

leads philosophers astray, 2645. 

mourning the death of, 2635. 

on scraps of, 4114. 

once, 'twas counted, 4115. 

proud of his, 3072. 

whence is thy, 3230. 
Learning's fountain, 252. 
Leather or prunella, the rest is, 5883. 
Leave, to take a tedious, 3700. 
Leaves, a tissue of autumn. 3897. 

are dropping, 5649. 

are troubled, 4926. 

have their times to fall, 1096. 

how fast they nutter, 3624. 

it opened its fan-like, 4533. 

the pointless, appear, 2166. 

the smiling, 3347. 

the yellow, came down, 3625. 

what thought is folded in thy, 
5497. 
Lend less than thou owest, 742. 
Let come what comes, 4309. 

him not know it, 740. 

me not live, 3642. 

such teach others, 926. 

the earth hide thee, 1908. 

us take the instant by the top, 
1261. 

us, then, be up and doing, 857. 

your reason, 655. 
Lethargy creeps through my senses, 

468S. 
Let's live with that small pittance, 792. 
Letter, a, is a rivet to affection, 2661. 

a, untimely delayed, 2661. 

did you see her answer to his, 
882. 

the prudent penning of a, 2660. 
Letters admit not a half renown, 2663. 

all dead paper, 2656. 

heaven first taught, 2662. 

pause awhile from, 242. 

that betray the heart's history, 
2657. 

thy, trembling I unclose, 2910. 
Levee, at the thronged, S64. 
Liar, I know him a, 907. 
Liberal to all alike, 471. 
Libertine, a chartered, 1361. 
Libertines who brawl in taverns, 5339. 
Liberty, a day of, 2670. 

alone that gives, 2675. 

Britain yet enjoys, 2671. 

I must have, 2665. 

is gone, 2669. 

last libation, draws, 2678. 



714 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Liberty, like day, breaks, 2673. 
loving-jealous of his, 3708. 
the love of, 2668. 
they mean license when they cry, 

2667. 
thine altars stand, 2676. 
Liberty's defence, in, 2666. 
Libraries, I love vast, 2680. 
License, they mean, 2667. 
Lie, an odious, damned, 2685. 
the circumstantial, 2682. 
the direct, 26S2. 

nothing can need a, 2688. 
the nimble, 5385. 

you told a, 2685. 
Lies are like their father, 2683. 

he never needs the screen of, 2687. 

to hide it, 2689. 
to please the fools, 2686. 
Liest, thou, as low as to thy heart, 

2684. 
Life, a, of pain, an age of crime, 3192. 

a sacred burden, 2743. 

a story of love and troubles, 2741. 

a sweeter, sadder thing, 1835. 

an idle summer, 2707. 

ask what is, 2727. 

busy scenes of crowded, 3592. 

by his, alone, 1458. 

can little more supply, 2705. 

cancel his bond of, 2105. 

death is the gate of, 1065. 

declines from thirty-five, 5200. 

derives value from its use, 2716. 

desire of, prolongs it, 2723. 

domestic, in pleasure passed, 3138. 

enlarge my, 2719. 

every man holds dear, 2208. 

exhales, 2722. 

high, 200. 

grows insipid, 2669. 

has its martyrs, 3147. 

hath no more to bring, 2951. 

his, was gentle, 3038. 

his, was right, 1542. 

his unkindness may defeat my, 
2855. 

hovers like a star, 2725. 

I have set, on a cast, 2696. 

I hear a sound of, 2708. 

in others' breath, 1567. 

in separate courses flowing, 2708. 

in the turmoil of, 5078. 

is a strange avenue, 2731. 

is a walking shadow, 2694. 

is a waste of hours, 2734. 

is a wild JEolian harp, 2738. 

is an empty dream, 2736. 

is arched with changing skies, 
2745. 

is hope's perpetual blaze, 2746. 

is in decrease, 2711. 

is real, 2737. 

is so dreary and desolate, 1179. 



Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 

1183. 
is cold and dark, 4808. 
is ever lord of death, 1197. 
is less than nothing without love, 

2999. 
is perfected by death, 2578. 
is the gift of God, 2735. 
is the twinkle of a star, 2732. 
is too short for logic, 2742. 
is waning fast, 527U. 
lives only in success, 4965. 
may be prolonged by, 1276. 
may perfect be, 4923. 
men deal with, 2728. 
must I consume my, 1665. 
must spring from woman, 5811. 
my, I love you, 2932. 
on a dial's point, 2695. 
protracted is protracted woe, 2719. 
reason thus with, 2691. 
rounded with a sleep, 2690. 
no, can be pure, 2422. 
nothing in his, became him like 

the leaving it, 1038. 
nor love nor hate thy, 2697. 
on a summer's day, 4112. 
on earth, 1637. 

one crowded hour of glorious, 1937. 
one thought settles a, 5213. 
our work is, 5858. 
out of death, 2131. 
sands that make up my, 1034. 
solitude is quick with, 4781. 
sunshine on the hills of, 2748. 
that, is better life, 1027. 
that leads melodious days, 2751. 
the blandishments of, 4976. 
the broad sunshine of the other, 

1112. 
the coming, 4279. 
the cool sequestered vale of, 2713. 
the grandest hour of his, 3076. 
the hesitating wheels of, 5661. 
the love of liberty is given with, 

2668. 
the nothingness of, 5452. 
the time of, is short, 2695. 
the toils of, 2589. 
the wave of, 1100. 
the weariest and most loathed, 

1024. 
the wheels of, stood still, 93. 
the wine of, is drawn, 2693. 
the, you cannot give, 2700. 
there is a character in thy, 577. 
thou art a galling load, 2721. 
'tis the sunset of, 1757. 
to prevent the time of, 4972. 
to raise the dead to, 4476. 
twenty years of, 4971. 
we lose, in anxious cares, 4329. 
unfit for other, 4161. 
variety is the spice of, 5455. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



715 



Life, we praise, 2698. 

what a sign it is of evil, 1036. 

what is, 2740. 

when, is first in bloom, 5912. 

when, is new, 2724. 

when love is flown, 2993. 

which answers life's end, 2712. 

whoso lives the holiest, 2165. 

you take my, 102. 

your, your soul, is proffered, 1651. 
Life's a jest, 2703. 

a short summer, 2715. 

a vast sea, 2749. 

cares are comforts, 2342. 

dull round, 2439. 

fairest things, 2248. 

high meed is death, 1089. 

last scene, 2718. 

latest sands, 4277. 

little stage, 2709. 

path for the twilight world, 3423. 

poor play is o'er, 3061. 

vast ocean, we may sail on, 3056. 
Lift her with care, 3836. 

the future's sable shroud, 1877. 
Light, a dim, religious, 537. 

a ray of heavenly, 1162. 

admires the mirror of, 2780. 

awakes the world, 3350. 

clad in a robe of, 5019. 

dearer to my eyes than, 2922. 

dim religious, 5654. 

ere it departed, 5023. 

gone into the world of, 3201. 

is thy element, 5004. 

hail! holy, 2755. 

her steps are of, 990. 

is dead, 1002. 

is mingled with the gloom, 737. 

let there be, 2756. 

quick rays of, 4912. 

teach to counterfeit gloom, 1926. 

that leads to Heaven, 4660. 

the, of love, 4826. 

splendor of shifting, 5039. 

sprung from the deep, 2756. 

sunk the lamp of, 35. 

the prime work of God, 417. 

the silver, 3327. 

they love, 3910. 

through yonder window, 4992. 

upon her face, 1537. 

which rains its beams, 5022. 
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, 4984. 
Lightning in the eyes, 5552. 

is tangled in rain, 4932. 

swift-footed, 4926. 
Lightnings, you nimble, 949. 
Lights of the village, 4221. 

where all things dark remain, 
4540. 
Like will to like, 5075. 
Likeness, long shall we seek his, 4566. 
Liking, pamper it not with, 5700. 



Lilacs, April brings again, 185. 
Lilies, in the beauty of the, 656. 

that fester, 1793. 
Lily and dewy rose, 5413. 

mistress of the field, 2759. 

of the valley, 3907. 

on a gathered, 5132. 

to paint the, 1461. 
Lily's, the, snowy grace, 2760. 
Lincoln, Abraham, 2761. 
Linen, it is not, 5857. 
Lines and dots are locks and keys, 
4582. 

where go the poets', 3896. 
Linnets sing, I pipe as, 4623. 
Lion, a chafed, by the mortal paw, 
1154. 

a, from his den, 5571. 

the, drops his crested mane, 3406. 

the hungry, roars, 3500. 

the most majestic brute, 2763. 

the, wounds the earth, 2762. 
Lions, pluck dead, by the beard, 893. 

talks as familiarly of, 435. 
Lion's hide, tho#wear a, 896. 

skin, the man that did sell, 433. 
Lip, nectar on a, 4173. 

teach not thy, such scorn, 2542. 
Lips, breath congealed upon thy, 5674. 

he drew my soul through my, 
2554. 

her, are roses washed with dew, 
2765. 

may beguile, 5149. 

that we have never kissed, 5295. 

the, that guard that tongue, 5068. 

those fair, of thine, 2544. 

those kissing cherries, 2764. 
Liquor guid to fire his bluid, 1312. 

slide into his veins, 3681. 
Liquors, hot and rebellious, 3641. 
Live, all things have equal right to. 
2700. 

I in pleasure, 2704. 

I will not, degraded, 489. 

it matters not how long we, 2720. 

not to ourselves, 5858. 

so, that when thy summon* 
comes, 2714. 

'tis more brave to, 483. 

to, and to part is torment, 2918. 

to please, please to live, 1286. 

we, in deeds not years, 2753. 

well, how long or short, 2697. 

while you live, 2704. 
Lives, a history in all men's, 4054. 

forty thousand, 4307. 

good is that darkening of, 2057. 

he, most, who thinks most, 2753- 

human creatures', 5857. 

like oceans change, 2752. 

making their, a prayer, 2747. 

meet, like ships at sea, 1625. 

of great men all remind us, 1459. 



716 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



lives, offering their own, 3692. 

that had run in separate channels, 
2990. 

the business of their, 16G8. 

toil and tumult of their, 3596. 
Livery, the light and careless, 5902. 
Lo! now is come our feast, 663. 
Load.theback is sacrificed to the, 5112. 
Loaf, to steal of a cut, 5196. 
Loan, a, oft loses a friend, 2648. 
Lobster, like a, boiled, 3345. 
Locks, her sunny, 312. 

never shake thy gory, 1909. 
i^odge in some vast wilderness, 4761. 
Lodging, hard was their, 1973. 
Logic, life is too short for, 2742. 
Loiterers, ever listless, 2341. 
London, a mass of brick and smoke, 
2770. 

the villain's home, 2769. 

thou knowest the day of prayer, 
2771. 
London's column lifts the head, 3317. 
Long, long ago, 4937. 

time ago, 4226. f 
Longing, here is the; 730. 

restless unsatisfied, 4272. 
Look before you leap, 548. 

how he laughs, 637. 

into the seeds of time, 1867. 

to her, Moor, 1122. 

to it well, 5219. 
Looking before and after, 2340. 
Looking-glass, in her, 5450. 
Looks, his, adorned the place, 684. 

replete with modesty, 3293. 

the cottage might adorn, 3296. 
Lord, deputy elected by the, 2521. 

hath done, remember what the, 
3987. 

his, is crucified, 1139. 

let the, be thankit, 2623. 

O my good, 1165. 

of all things, 3059. 

of the lion-heart, 2386. 

our, is pitiful, 1767. 

your, will soon return, 2414. 
Lords, honored at the house of, 3668. 

of humankind, 4028. 
Lord's day, 679. 

Lordship, your, and your grace, 685. 
Lore, arm the mind with, 4577. 
Loss is common, 2777. 

there was a, 736. 

wise men ne'er sit and wail their, 
33. 
Losses, an eye of pity on his, 2776. 
Lots, what different, 2744. 
Love a bright particular star, 1188. 

a compound of all passions, 2913. 

a volume in a word, 3002. 

a welcome guest, 3837. 

all I have felt and feel betoken, 
2938. 



Love all, trust a few, 62. 

allows no partnership, 2904. 

an equal yoke of, 1815. 

and ambition have no bounds, 2889. 

and friending, express his, 1823. 

and providential care, 4079. 

at first sight, 1199. 

be oft" with the old. 2927. 

bears within its breast the germ 

of change, 2945. 
begins to sicken and decay, 2829. 
blest or blighted, 3G02. 
blinds the wise, 2S91. 
bound in thy rosy bond, 2957. 
brings beauty, 2S93. 
brings mutual delight, 2893. 
by, wit is turned to folly, 2783. 
burns with one, 1848. 
can answer love, 3133. 
can die, they sin who tell us, 2969. 
can hope where reason despairs, 

2258. 
can make fiends as well as angels, 

2895. 
can sun the realms of night, 2878. 
care can make, frown, 2983. 
comforteth like sunshine, 2858. 
confounds right and wrong, 2S89. 
contempt of, 2787. 
didst thou know the touch of, 

2790. 
doth on fortune tend, 1824. 
dwells in ladies' eyes, 2919. 
endures no tie, 2890. 
enlightens fools, 2S92. 
enters at the humblest door, 22S2. 
equalitv is no rule in, 2867. 
false, is blind, 2894. 
fair as my, 2859. 
finds the need it fills, 2908. 
free as air, 2911. 
gilds the scene, 5803. 
gentleness and show of, 1820. 
give6 a tumultuous bliss, 2923. 
had, been met with love, 2936. 
hail! wedded, 3121. 
has a tide, 2995. 
has an eye to his dinner, 2984. 
has found the way, 2876. 
has never known a law, 2903. 
hath chased sleep from my eyes, 

2787. 
he who made earth in, 2935. 
heaven itself descends in, 2940. 
her for her smile, 3008. 
him, 1 cannot, 2798. 
him, why did she, 2934. 
his slaves detains, 2078. 
honor, wealth, 2124. 
hope, fear, faith, 597. 
how perfect is thy art, 2946. 
how wayward is this foolish, 67. 
I cannot drift beyond his, 4078. 
I desire all good men's, 3759. 



INDEX TO QCOTATIOXS. 



717 



Love, I love, 5391. 

if ever thou shalt, 2801. 

if there's delight in, 2905. 

if thou dost, 2840. 

in a cottage is hungry, 839. 

in a hut is ashes, 2931. 

includes heart and mind, 2915. 

inconstant love, 2979. 

-in-idleness, maidens call it, 1720. 

inhabits the finest wits, 2781. 

inspires the thrush, 733. 

is a boy, 4092. 

is a capricious power, 2948. 

is a humble low-born thing, 2930. 

is a lock that links minds, 2980. 

is a mighty lord, 2789. 

is a pleasure, 2986. 

is a pouting child, 4697. 

is a simple fireside thing, 2930. 

is a smoke made of sighs, 2834. 

is a spirit of fire, 2862. 

is all the pretence, 3301. 

is all truth, 2858. 

is at home on a carpet, 2984. 

is at its best, 2997. 

is beauty, and beauty love, 2991." 

is begot by fancy, 2917. 

is better than fame, 2886. 

is better than high birth, 2860. 

is blind, 2814. 

is destroyed by knowledge, 2917. 

is grown to ripeness, 2652. 

is full of unbefitting strains, 2813. 

is heaven, 665. 

is heaven, and heaven is love, 2954. 

is in the myrtle found, 1732. 

is liberty, 2912. 

is light from heaven, 2940. 

is loveliest in tears, 2961. 

is maintained by wealth, 2869. 

is nature's treasure, 2985. 

is not love which alters, 2863. 

is not to be reasoned down, 2902. 

is now peace, then war, 2982. 

is of itself too sweet, 2870. 

is our greatest bliss, 2897. 

is, the growth of human will ? 2934. 

is the truth of truths, 5384. 

is rest, 2884. 

is said to be a child, 2807. 

is strong, 2996. 

is tangled in rain, 4932. 

is the only good in the world, 2879. 

is to be made of sighs and tears, 

2820. 
is too precious, 3005. 
keeps a modest distance, 3140. 
kindnessin women shall win, 2517. 
large as life, deep as death, 2914. 
lends sweetness and grace, 2976. 
let me but bear your, 2826. 
let those, that never loved before, 

2896. 
let us, so well, 5856. 



Love, let youth beware of, 2920. 
lies on thy breast, 3458. 
life is less than nothing without, 

2999. 
life's fine centre, 2915. 
lightness in, bad and base, 2980. 
like a shadow flies, 2796. 
like the murmur of, 2497. 
lingers still, 5201. 
linked to the deserver, 3938. 
links two people in one, 2959. 
live with me and be my, 2778. 
liveth not in fierce desire, 2962. 
looks for love again, 2994. 
looks not with the eyes, 944. 
made those hollows, 1220. 
man's, is a thing apart, 2947. 
me for love's sake, 3008. 
me in silence, 3009. 
me not, say that you, 2818. 
me with a love as true, 1837. 
mine was like the lava's flood, 

2942. 
mingles pangs and madness, 2923. 
music, the food of, 2797. 
must be sustained, 2949. 
must needs be blind, 2966. 
my days of, are over, 2950. 
my, doth so approve him, 2856. 
my, is strengthened, 2861. 
my, is thawed, 2788. 
my, swears she is made of truth, 

1270. 
my whole course of, 2851. 
moderately, 2843. 
nature is fine in, 2848. 
never doubt I, 2846. 
never taint my, 1682. 
no bridge can convey, 2877. 
no true, without jealousy, 2469. 
nothing in life like making, 2978. 
nought is so sweet as, 2981. 
O and glory, what are ye, 2953. 
O, if you were only here, 12. 
O last, O first, 13. 
of praise, 3981. 
of women, 2951. 
offices of, 1762. 
on fortune tends, 1824. 
on the very name of, 2789. 
on through all ills, 3143. 
one fairer than my, 3800. 
our, was like most other loves, 2963. 
pleads admission, 2898. 
prosperity's the bond of, 2824. 
reigns, where, 2468. 
rules the camp, court, grove, 2954. 
sees pathways to his will, 2835. 
she never told her, 2800. 
shrinks before the storm, 1859. 
sighs of, 2809. 
sincere refines upon the taste, 

2921. 
something to, he lends us, 2652, 



718 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Love sought is good, given unsought 

is better, 2802. 
spends his all, 3001. 
spreads his light wings, 2911. 
6tands not still, 2956. 
stars are images of, 4902. 
6tony limits cannot hold, 2836. 
teacheth to indite, 2871. 
tell this youth what 'tis to, 2820. 
tents with, or thrones without, 

2971. 
that can he reckoned, 2830. 
that lived through the stormy 

past, 2909. 
that shall not die. 2887. 
that would seem hid, 2803. 
the best of passions, 2916. 
the charms that wake man's, 2965. 
the course of true, 2804. 
the feast and fulness of, 730. 
the first sound of, 2988. 
the flowers of, are gone, 3654. 
the gift of God, 2962. 
the god of evil, 2952. 
the harvest-time of, 2969. 
the magic of, 2976. 
the remembrance of my former, 

2378. 
the sweetest joy is, 2998. 
the truth of truths is, 3908. 
the wildest woe is, 2998. 
thee freely, I, 3010. 
thee, I know that I, 2970. 
there lives in the flame of, 2849. 
this bud of, may prove a flower, 

2841. 
this spring of, 2786. 
this weak impress of, 2792. 
thyself last, 58. 
'tis not a fault to, 2901. 
'tis sweet to, 4312. 
'tis the curse in, 2795. 
to, and to be wise, 2888. 
to be wise and, 2828. 
to hatred turned, 2116. 
to, is a mighty pain, 2868. 
to, is the one way to know, 2866. 
to quench the fire of, 2790. 
told her witk a sigh, 2964. 
tried in temptation, 2955. 
tunes the shepherd's reed, 2963. 
turns to most deadly hate, 2825. 
untired by time, 2955. 
Venus, power of, 5466. 
warms every vein, 2902. 
was but a name, 3563. 
we cannot fight for, 5759. 
we, what we lack, 2364. 
what, can do, 2836. 
what is, but sorrow, 2935. 
what thing is, 2919. 
when 1 did first impart my, 872. 
where, is great, 2847. 
whether, lead fortune, 2844. 



Love whichgiveth aIl,forgivethaught, 
3000. 
who can sever, 603. 

whose bane is art, 2937. 

whose view is muffled, 2835. 

whoever lives true life will, 3011. 

why should we kill, 2916. 

will creep in where it cannot go, 
2793. 

will dream, and faith will trust, 
3170. 

will find its way, 2941. 

will have a sense of pity, 2989. 

will hurt and heal, 2873. 

will make one of two, 2873. 

with life is heaven, 3003. 

with me, do not fall in, 2819. 

with more capacity for, 1230. 

you were my crown, 2907. 
Loved her better, I would have, 2936. 
• how, how honored once, 1061. 

not wisely but too well, 2465. 

to be, needs only to be seen, 5367. 

what makes it fatal to be, 2944. 

when we met and, 3006. 
Loving, no pleasure like the pain of, 

2967. 
Loveliest of lovely things, 334. 
Loveliness, April's rare capricious, 
3561. 

dim and solitary, 3528. 

eternal, 360. 

needs not the aid of ornament, 
1301. 

the might, the majesty of, 351. 

was lovelier, he thought all, 2420. 

when I approach her, 2779. . 
Lovely seemed any object, 3598. 
Lover, a, is a slave to his mistress, 
2881. 

in the husband may be lost, 3135. 

on a departing, 5341. 

sighing like a furnace, 2817. 

what, ever died, 2883. 

why so pale and wan, 2874. 
Lover'6 eyes are bright, 2992. 
Lovers, a pair of united, 3144. 

and madmen have seething brains, 
2811. 

break not hours, 2794. 

cannot see the follies, 2814. 

I pity, 5806. 

meet, when a pair of, 2975. 

sigh, the wind breathed soft as, 
517. 

which of her, 5S74. 
Lovers' perjuries, Jove laughs at, 
2838. 

tongues, how sweet sound, 2837. 
Love's eyes are in his mind, 2966. 

history, ended not by marriage, 
3126. 

honey has a dash of gall, 2870. 

humility is love's pride, 2S85. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



719 



Love's jovs, the chief of all, 2906. 

resistless tide, 2589. 

settled passions, 5501. 

night is noon, 2803. 

nobility, this is, 2926. 

not time's fool, 2863. 

reason is without reason, 2S31. 

rule is unresisted, 2891. 

sighs, ink tempered with, 2812. 
Loves and cares, nobler, 3924. 

ask the flower if she, 3012. 

one, so much, 2997. 

the maid that, trusts miracles,2924. 

you so, why rebuke him who, 
2810. 
Loving goes by haps, 2821. 
Lowliness is the base of virtue, 
2280. 

is young ambition's ladder, 115. 
Loyalty, we too are friends to, 2535. 
Lucifer, hurled from heaven, 3917. 
Lumbago jumps upon his back, 495. 
Lumber, loads of learned, 3789. 
Lunatic, lover, and poet, 2357. 
Lustre in your eyes, 5893. 
Lute, musical as Apollo's, 3813. 

sighs in soft vibrations, 3424. 
Luxuries excelling all the glare, 4299. 
Luxury cursed by heaven, 3016. 

Macassar, incompiarable oil, 722. 
Machine, who moves this, 4921. 
Macedonia's madman, 2152. 
Machiavel had ne'er a trick, 3018. 
Mad, I am not mad, 3019. 

that he is, is true, 3021. 
Madman, a, stares, 1155. 
Madmen know, none but, 3027. 

6uch stuff as, tongue, 1290. 

the worst of, 1394. 
Madness, her, hath the frame of sense, 
3020. 

I have uttered, 3025. 

must not unwatched go, 3023. 

there is method in this, 3022. 

great wits are allied to, 3028. 

'tis, to defer, 1168. 

wits allied to, 5707. 

you may call it, 3183. 
Magazine, furbish falsehoods for a, 

933. 
Magic, what conjuration and what, 

873. 
Magnificence, boundless in, 4895. 
Maid, be good, sweet, 1975. 

the chariest, 3319. 

what tender, 5498. 
Maiden, the heart of a, 2973. 

woo the timid, 5836. 

you are no, 2822. 
Maiden's, a, fright, 4744. 
Maidens moved in the dance, 989. 

wave their kerchiefs, 3943. 

when, sue, 3810. 



Maids, her, were old, 2470. 

in modesty say no, 67. 
Mail, he wears a coat of, 4529. 
Main, it blew across the, 5639. 
Majesty, the seat of, 623. 
Maker, our, bids increase, 556. 
Maladies, diversions put, to flight, 

45S3. 
Malady, a, preys on my heart, 2065. 
Malefactor, some monstrous, 1423. 
Malice aims her darts in vain, 2444. 

days free from, 2115. 

nor set down aught in, 169. 

to conceal, 2324. 
Mammon led them on, 4326. 
Man, a, busied about decrees, 2508. 

a Christian is the highest style of, 
3065. 

a, deep-wounded, 3686. 

a fallins, 723. 

a godly~ 4406. 

a, in want is knave or fool, 5544. 

a, is no horse, 193. 

a kingly prerogative of, 4S41. 

a living dead, 5887. 

a, ma j- fish, 5881. 

a, may frown till he hateth, 2114. 

a, may spare, 5750. 

a, may spend, 5750. 

a, may weep, 3260. 

a merrier, 3256. 

a mighty, SS8. 

a moral", sensible, and well-bred, 
80. 

a, must serve his time to every 
trade, 932. 

a, of men, 3076. 

a, of sense can artifice disdain, 
552. 

a, of such feeble temper, 5600. 

a, of their infirmity, 4019. 

a pendulum betwixt a smile and 
tear, 3086. 

a 6adder and a wiser, 78. 

a, so various. 1677. 

a, to double business bound, 2454. 

a true, 587. 

a valiant, 848. 

a, whose blood is snowbroth, 4703. 

a wise, will not trust, 2381. 

actions show the, 3063. 

all regarding, as their prey, 302. 

all that was pleasant in, 586. 

alone can spare, 3221. 

alone, in company, 3064. 

an effeminate, 5767. 

an honest, he is, 2191. 

and wife, each other's aid, 2515. 

art is thine alone, 210. 

as vice has made him, 3074. 

assurance of a, 3041. 

brave, is not he who feels no fear, 
856. 

can you hear, groan, 724. 



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INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Man, cbild is father of the, 

close buttoned to the chin, 2194. 
consider, in every sphere, 4736. 
crawls upon the earth, 3062. 
deems his own land the pride, 

2184. 
dwells apart, 4780. 
eternal epic of the, 3075. 
every, who lives is horn to die, 

795. 
extremes in, 1495. 
faithless at Whitehall, 3064. 
foe to God was never friend to, 

2409. 
grasp it like a, 3479. 
has skill and power, 4035. 
hath no music in himself, 3398. 
he is the half-part of a, 3110. 
honest, noblest work of God, 2193. 
how wonderful is, 3067. 
I could have better spared a bet- 
ter, 1037. 
I dare do all that may become a, 

998. 
I venerate the, 687. 
if, abandons, 343. 
if the heart of a, 5790. 
in society, 4733. 

is a carnivorous production, 2289. 
is a piece of clay, 3080. 
is a summer's day, 3072. 
is a worm by birth, 3062. 
is of soul and body, 3074. 
is one world, 3045. 
is practised in disguise, 3053. 
is rich with little, 3463. 
is sure to lose, 1247. 
is the miracle in nature, 3255. 
is the shuttle, 3073. 
is unjust, God just, 2516. 
know thyself, 4524. 
let each, do his best, 2. 
let each, think, 3077. 
let every, enjoy his whim, 2397. 
let him pass for a, 3037. 
made the town, S34. 
made uc citizens, 3051. 
makes a death, which nature 

never made, 1067. 
may be a legal donor, 1922. 
may prophesy, 4054. 
may ranee the court, camp, 

church, 2947. 
milk-livered, 892. 
more than passion goes to make 

a, 3898. 
must get drunk, 1314. 
must be virtuous and vicious, 

3057. 
must daily wiser grow, 4523. 
no, e'er felt the halter draw, 2633. 
nothing so becomes a, 3764. 
O good old, 161. 
oi many thoughts, 2153. 



Man of morals, tell me why, 1309. 
of pleasure is a man of pains, 3851. 
of pure and simple heart, 2687. 
one out of two thousand, 2190. 
perils doe enfold, 5178. 
proud man, 231. 
receives the principle of death, 

1252. 
search the heart of, 4240. 
sees but a part of the chain, 1619. 
shall make his fortune, 5052. 
shall, no resurrection know, 2369. 
shall wholly die, 4824. 
she who knows her, 2077. 
should do nothing, 4239. 
should labor for bread, 2590. 
so weak is, 3996. 
sooner trust a crocodile than a, 

3044. 
such is the race of, 3359. 
suspects himself a fool, 1169. 
that is marred, 3103. 
that hails you Tom or Jack, 1589. 
that lays his hand, 902. 
that meddles with iron, 1318. 
the apparel oft proclaims the, 168. 
the brave, seeks not applause, 852. 
the, but changed his mind, 566. 
the companionship of, 4778. 
the dream of a dream, 3066. 
the friend of, 3840. 
the good, meets his fate, 1066. 
the good-natured, 931. 
the inward, 3656. 
the proper study of mankind is, 

2571. 
the spirit of, 3085. 
the vapors melt into, 3350. 
the, who builds, 508. 
the, who consecrates his hours. 

743. 
the, who shows his heart, 2328. 
there lived a, 3087. 
thinks his actions free, 1628. 
thinks to force his brain, 4955. 
this aged and poor, 3401. 
this is the state of, 51. 
this was a, 3038. 
though limited by fate, 1628. 
'tis cruelty to load a falling, 157= 
'tis no sin for a, to labor, 5530. 
to have no master, 2677. 
to trust on oath or bond, 1954. 
trust not a, 3047. 
unfold nature's law, 3490. 
use doth breed habit in a, 964. 
wants but little here below, 794. 
what a strange thing is, 5808. 
what has been done by, 3951. 
what is, 3079. 
what may, hide, 3029. 
what may, within him hide, 1325. 
what need a, forestall his date of 

grief, 158. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS 



'21 



Man, what were unenlightened, 3817. 

who gets his bread of labor, 23S3. 

who once has trailed a pen, 3790. 

why should a, GIG. 

will certainly deceive thee, 3047. 

with secret art, 3404. 

without labor is useless, 2591. 

worth makes the, 3058. 

would live in vain were death 
denied, 1071. 
Manhood daring, bold and venturous, 
3035. 

troubled, followed baffled youth, 
592. 

when verging into age, 85. 

a libel ou, 933. 
Mankind, he who surpasses or sub- 
dues, 130. 

praise against their will, 1209. 

the best feelings of, 1224. 

the homage of, 2073. 

the lowest of, 1716. 

the tenth of, 5732. 

the treasure of, 3817. 

to fly from, 4292. 

to the destruction of, 2078. 

was meant for, 503. 

were like himself possessed, 1395. 

wisest, brightest, meanest of, 
1566. 
Man's social happiness, 5S03. 

a man for a' that, 3070. 

a, phenomenon, 3083. 

a strange animal, 3084. 

erring judgment, 4024. 

first disobedience, 1257. 

if a, belief is bad, 4208. 

illusion, given for, 5878. 

imperial race, 2079. 

love for life, 4101. 

mint, economy, the poor, 1348. 

natural estate* 5524. 

presumption on to-morrow, 5302. 

resurrection, 3346. 

success, remove the charms, 2965. 

wishes tend to roam, 3128. 
Maniacs, blend with surrounding, 5103. 
Manners, catch the, as they rise, 3445. 

defect of, 3089. 

sentle, of, 583. 

with fortunes, 3091. 
Mantle, fair as lily-leaves, 4717. 

fecr. ij» unfurled, 4598. 
MaEy Mght hearts and wings, 5346. 
Marathon looks on the sea, 2033. 
Marble and brass decay, 5373. 

grows to beauty, 4477. 

I did not build with, 3006. 

this silent, weeps, 1417. 
Marbles, the, rest on the lips, 3318. 
March! a cloudy stream is flowing, 
3092. 

is come at last, 3093. 

we know thou art kind, 3095. 



Marigold, the grateful, 5005. 

unmentioned die, 5011. 
Marigolds, ye ardent, 5003. 
Mariner, the, who knows, 4479. 
Mark, death loves a shining, 1070. 
Market-price, sell their glory at, =S309. 
Marriage, a heaven on earth, 3117. 

a matter of more worth, 3113. 

from love, 3141. 

hasty, seldom prove th well, 3111. 

is the life-long miracle, 3125. 

life's paradise, 3117. 

love's historv is ended not by, 
3126. 

rightly understood, 3137. 

the instances that move, 3114. 
Marriage-bond, the, divine, 5743. 
Married, a young man, 3103. 

at lasl 

her, true. I have, 3115. 

in haste, repent at leisure, 3129. 

Miss was, 886. 
Marry, choose a proper time to, 3139. 
Mars) an eye like, 2305. 

the red planet, 4904. 

thou valiant, 195S. 
Marsh, the, is frozen, 5670. 
Martyr in his shirt of fire, 3148. 
Martyrs, life has its, 3147. 
Mary, a passion for the name of, 3149. 
Mass, change dissolves the glittering, 

5263. 
Master and servant, 573. 

Brook, think of that, 1467. 

my, is of churlish disposition, 
2274. 

of what is mine own, 5730. 

one energetic, 5427. 

masterpiece of the, 5562. 

so noble a, fallen, 46. 

the mighty, 209. 
Masters, we cannot all be, 3151. 
Masterdom, no force can get the, 3312. 
Matches, handy at making, 3152. 
Mate, choose a' proper, 3139. 

some honest gander for her, 3131. 
Mathematics and metaphysics, 3230. 

in, he was greater, 3153. 
Matter, bubbles on the sea of, 3360. 

deep and dangerous, 4497. 
Maxims, his, draws from truth, 3459. 
Mav, for thee, sweet month, 3154. 
' is here, 3162. 

stands confessed the sweetest, 
3157. 

sweet, 3155. 

sweet-voiced one, 3163. 

that dost inspire mirth, 3160. 

the flowery, 3160. 

the new-born, 3156. 

thy radiant form unfold, 3156. 

warming the heart of, 3159. 

winter chills the lap of, 5672 

wreathes for the, 3164. 



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INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Hay-flowers blossoming around him, 

1728.' 
Meadows, children of the, 1730. 

paint the, with delight, 4863. 

the blush of, 4358. 
Meals, unquiet, make ill digestions, 

1340. 
Meaning, explain the, away, 717. 
Means, for my, I'll husband them, 535. 

to do ill deeds, 3658. 
Measure your mind's height, 3247. 
Measures not men, 3165. 
Mechanic, a, will discard labor, 4948. 
Mediator, I shall not choose a mortal, 

690. 
Medicine cannot reach, 2065. 

life may be prolonged by, 1276. 
Meditations lawful, 2069. 
Meekness and humility, 1707. 
Meeting, at the hour of, 3169. 
Meetings made December June, 3718. 
Melancholy, a poor, unmanly, 47. 

are my poor breeches, 3310. 

as a cat, 3174. 

as an unbraced drum, 3181. 

black, sits, 3178. 

cursed, 3175. 

days are come, 3556. 

give these pleasures, 3177. 

moody and dull, 4177. 

out of a song, 3173. 

pale, sat retired, 3180. 

pensive shades for, 3179. 

there's such a charm in, 3183. 

we grow, 3182. 
Melody, pentameter falling in, 3794. 
Melodies unheard before, 3419. 
Melrose, if thou wouldst view, 3184. 
Memories, O, 3200. 

of summer eves, 3206. 
Memory, a majestic, 3203. 

dear to, though lost to sight, 6. 

from the table of, 3187. 

in thy exhaustless mine, 3196. 

is fair and bright, 3201. 

my book of, 5219. 

now is crime, 775. 

on a throne, 3202. 

shadow-shapes of, 5261. 

the eyes of, will not sleep, 3194. 

the leaves of, 3204. 

the morning-star of, 353. 

thou fond deceiver, 3190. 

'tis in my, locked, 4495. 

wafted by thy gentle gale, 3198. 

wore my heart away, 15. 
Men, all are, 3068. 

all honorable, 2209. 

amongst the sons of, 3227. 

ar« a little breed, 3049. 

are all perjured, all forsworn, 
3039. 

are but painted clay, 4249. 

are children of larger growth, 3048. 



Men are cradled into poetry bv wrong, 

3962. 
are masters of their fates, 113. 
are moulded out of faults, 3030. 
are the sport of circumstances, 

3082. 
as resolute appear, 1190. 
as well as books may be read too 

much, 1496. 
be this a caution to married, 2304. 
bear in mind great deeds, 1574. 
betray, 1794. 

born to feast, not fight, 1943. 
brave, would act, 125. 
can be great, 5 787. 
carcasses of unburicd, 3937. 
engage in duelling, 1320. 
entirely great, 3793. 
faults to make us, 3036. 
few, dare show their thoughts, 

2331. 
freely work, 5S55. 
get money by devotion, 3828. 
give like gods, 3810. 
great, models of nations, 2032. 
have leave to coin words, 5S46. 
have power to choose, 3123. 
I do fawn on, 4444. 
if ever, hunted twice, 2296. 
in, we find various passions, 

4371. 
it is the part of, 216. 
let us think less of, 4194. 
lie ^ho lack courage, 903. 
love thee more, 3004. 
make sound, sick, 4100. 
married where they pleased, 3122. 
masters of all these, 3042. 
may construe things, 2614. 
may rise on stepping-stones, 1490. 
must be taught as if you taught 

them not, 1353. 
measures, not, 3165. 
nature made us, 3051. 
nonsense is relished by wisest, 

3551. 
O leaden-hearted, 5290. 
o'er him wept, 4827. 
of breeding, men of w T it, 919. 
of noble minds, 5191. 
of your profession, 2618. 
prize the thing ungained, 877. 
put an enemy in their mouths, 

1305. 
say of her what they mean, 880. 
shall deal unadvisedly, 4238. 
should be what they seem, 3043. 
should drink with harness on 

their throats, 1304. 
should find respect for what they 

have been, 157. 
sent their doors on a setting sun. 

1811. 
smile no more, 4174. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



723 



U©", 6om< 5 , there are, 160. 

suspect your tale untrue, 4037. 

talk only to conceal the mind, 1327. 

that stumble at the threshold, 5587. 

the lightness of, 2379. 

the tongues of dying, 1043. 

the evil that, do, 92. 

the most infamous, 1570. 

the thoughts of desperate, 3267. 

the worsl of, 5799. 

the worst, often give the best ad- 
vice, 66. 

their creation mar, 5758. 

there are a kind of, 4676. 

there is a tide in the affairs of, 
1136. 

there's no faith, no honesty in, 
3039. 

these, a jury make, 2500. 

these, or their fathers, 2537. 

think all men mortal but them- 
selves, 1169. 

to point out herds of, 5873. 

tongues of dying, 5839. 

understood bv vote, 4115. 

'we are all, 3034. 

were deceivers ever, 1124. 

were made for women, 3124. 

what, assume to be, 3078. 

what, dare do, 3031. 

where, have souls or bodies, 985. 

when they are from home, 3259. 

wise, ne'er sit and wail their loss, 
33. 

wits are despicable, 2643. 

would not use a lady so, 3032. 

ye shall succor, 4544. 

young soon forgive, affronts, 79. 
Men's ears deaf to counsel, 1705. 

ends are more marked than their 
lives, 1044. 

evil manners live in brass, 5503. 

eyes, foul deeds will arise to, 3390. 

faiths are wafer-cakes, 542. 

frown or smile, 1579. 

minds mistrust danger, 3280. 

talents grow more bold, 4705. 

tempers, some, suit with dispute, 
1262. 

vows are women's traitors, 2832. 
Mendicant, 'tis a proud, 2027. 
Mercies of a moment, 4038. 
Mercury, a winged, 103. 
Mercy, beyond the reach of, 956. 

but murders, 3218. 

emboldens sin, 3216. 

greatest attribute of heaven, 3219. 

grieve at the, 1769. 

is nobility's badge, 3217. 

is not strained, 3214. 

is not itself, 3207. 

is so extended, 3212. 

show to me, 3223. 

so good a grace as, 3208. 



Mercy, the brave love, 900. 
the deeds of, 3222. 

trophies on, 3220. 

we do pray for, 3213. 

will breathe' within your lips, 3210. 
Merit makes his way, 3224. 

not their own, 3227. 

should they have regard to, 5507. 

the heart of, 4746. 

true, to befriend, 322"). 
Merits heighten your disgrace, 4136. 
Mermaid, the, binds her hair, 3229. 

on a dolphin's back, 3228. 
Merry and wise, it is good to be, 2927. 

heart goes all the day, 617. 
Message of despair, 5157. 

superfluous begin your, 5047. 
Messenger, many-colored, 4126. 
Met, we, 'twas in a crowd, 3172. 
Metal on a sullen ground, 4234. 
Metaphysic wit, 2567. 
Metaphysics, some fathom, 5810. 
Meteor streaming to the wind, 1700. 
Meteors fright the stars, 5186. 

glare and glooms invest, 3380. 
Method, fall into a slower, 1250. 
Mettle of your pasture, 5898. 
Metre, poor slaves in, 3875. 
Midnight brought the dusky hour, 3236. 

smiles in dreams of dawn, 229. 

the tongue of, 3233. 

'tis, 3235. 
Midshipman, the school-boy, 4396. 
Might, his, we know, 4088. 
Miles are short with company, 2098. 
Militia, the rude, swarms, 3242. 
Milliner, he was perfumed like a, 997. 
Milton, Shakespeare, both are ours, 
1390. 

the faith and morals of, 1802. 

thou shalt believe in, 3915. 

to give a, birth, 3244. 
Mimic of the woods, 3291. 
Mind, a bashful, 4603. 

a cultured, 838. 

a woman's, 5832. 

canst thou discern another's, 1405. 

doth shape itself, 3253. 

each blemish strikes an envious, 
1403. 

explore the recesses of the, 4508. 

food for every, 4456. 

he bears an honorable, 5756. 

I have not that cheer of, 3043. 

imagination is the air of, 2360. 

in health, 3250. 

is a kingdom, 3251. 

is here o'ertbrown, 3024. 

is its own place, 3246. 

it shows a generous, 4434. 

let thy, still be bent, 510. 

lightness of a, 2758. 

no blemish but the, 5433. 

possession of man's, 4210. 



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INDEX TO QU01 \ 1 7 7 ONS. 



Mind, scanty limits of the, £313. 

Bea of the, 4683. 

strength of, is exercise, 3248. 

that makes the body rich, 1300. 

the image of our, 5710. 

the, makes good or ill, 3245. 

the, receives aid, 680. 

the sacred counsels of Almighty, 
1630. 

the, that son of heaven, 4823. 

the tempest in my, 2044. 

the, turns fool, 76. 

thou hast a, 171. 

'tis the, that makes the body rich, 
167. 

to find the, in the face, 1526. 

tumors of a troubled, 5843. 

would shrink from, 5573. 
Minds, all things are ready if our, be 
so, 41. 

an equal temper know, 3407. 

brave are friends, 3782. 

great, are pleased in doing good, 
2432. 

great, erect trophies on mercy, 
3220. 

infected, will discharge their 
secrets, 753. 

innocent and quiet, 4036. 

of pride and force, 4228. 

that last infirmity of noble, 1564. 
Mine to have or hold, 1835. 
Minister, wise if a, 4407. 
Minstrel, no, needs, 3983. 
Minutes hasten to their end, 5240. 

what damned, tells he o'er, 2464. 
Miracle of weird transforming, 1863. 

there is no, 3254. 

this is a, 2368. 
Mirrors, full souls are double, 599. 
Mirth exalts a feast, 5658. 

heart-easing, 3262. 

pick out of tales the, 5308. 

the limit of becoming, 3256. 

with thee I mean to live, 3265. 
Mischief, mortals bend to, 3269. 

thou art afoot, 4164. 

thou art swift, 3267. 

to mourn a, 3268. 
Miser should his cares enjoy, 3272. 

'tis strange the, 277. 

why calllhe, miserable, 3270. 
Miseries have crazed my voice, 5751. 

human, abound, 609. 
Misery acquaints a man, 3273. 

fellows in, 4091. 

had worn him, 3823. 

is trodden on by many, 3275. 

kill himself to avoid, 4975. 

nothing is a, 3277. 

that's the end of human, 1035. 

to be the thing it has been, is, 131. 

what splendid, 56U7. 
Misfortunes travel in a train, 3278. 



Misquote, enough of learning to, 2354. 
Misses bridled, matrons frowned, 4440. 
Mist is dispelled, 5790. 
Mistake and ignorance, 5706. 
Mists above the rills, 5030. 
Mixture of earth's mould, 3403. 
Moanines in the halls, 5641. 
Model, we draw the, 4008. 
Moderation, let, on passions wait, 2872. 

placing all my glory in, 1933. 
Modesty, and ease, 807. 

looks replete with, 3293. 
Moisture, dry up the, 5003. 
Moment, born in a, 4135. 

improve each, 5259. 

sped too soon, 3232. 
Moments make the year, 5355. 
Monday, goes to work on, 4382. 
Monarch of a shed, 3787. 

pageant of a, 866. 

to hate the, 4504. 
Monarchs must obey, 1618. 

seldom sigh in vain, 4984. 
Monarchy, who can assume, 1421. 
Monster, the green-e3 r ed, 2466. 
Money buys land, 3099. 

get, no matter bv what means, 
3305. 

if, go before, 3297. 

has a power above the stars, 2882. 

he lends out, gratis, 2650. 

it will bring, 3302. 

lend not to thy friends, 2649. 

the only power, 3304. 
Monkeys at a mirror, 4332. 
Monotony, so void of grace as, 4410. 
Month, the second, 3316. 
Monument, a, without a tomb, 4553. 
Monuments, we read their, 2709. 
Mood, a sunny, 618. 
Moon, a lamp to wisdom, 3525. 

and thou, pale, 217. 

beholds them flow, 4482. 

bleached white as wool, 5406. 

carried oft' in purple fire, 3354. 

hath veiled her face, 3238. 

how slow this, wanes, 1481. 

so called, of honey, 2196. 

so silver and cold, 2196. 

it is the, 3331. 

is at her full, 3780. 

kill the envious. 4992. 

orbed is the, 3237. 

takes up the tale, 3322. 

the, arose, 3328. 

the, begins to creep, 3332. 

the cloudless, 3330. 

the devil is in the, 3326. 

the, in all her pride, 3329. 

the lonely, comes forth, 3336. 

the, shines white and silent, 3335. 

the, was brightening, 707. 

the, wheels her pale course, 1540 

to obey the, 3593. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



725 



Moon, to pluck honor from the, 2205. 

where sighs are deposited, 4586. 

when the, shone, 721, 
Moon's more sober light, 3324. 
Moonlight sleeps upon this bank, 3397. 

visit it by the pale, 3184. 
Moonshine, tbree single hours of, 3326. 
Moor, the, is abused^ 2560. 
Moral, to point a, 157-5. 

Catius is ever, 2327. 
Moralists, all are not, 3918. 
Morality, what is pure, 3337. 
Morals, it mends their, 1355. 

to mend his former, 5329. 
More haste, worst speed, 2104. 
Morn, dewdrop in the breeze of, 1217. 

fair laughs the, 5906. 

from black to red, 3345. 

in russet mantle clad, 3339. 

is bright and fresh, 3344. 

is up again, 3351. 

of toil, night of waking, 4686. 

on the mountain, 3352. 

smiles on the night, 1005. 

sowed the earth with pearl, 3343. 

sweet is the breath of, 3342. 

that sacred, 657. 
Morning blossoms out of night, 1079. 

many a glorious, 3340. 

never wore to evening, 2777. 

opes her gates, 3338. 

praise at, blame at night, 3978. 

shows the day, 629. 

stands above night, 4011. 

steals upon the night, 1003. 

the lark wakes the, 3341. 

the welcome, 727. 
Mornings are mysteries, 3346. 
Morrow, there is no, 5296. 
Mortal and mutable are the same, 1790. 

can make good, 3631. 
Mortals, enchantress of, 3421. 

bend their will, 3269. 

thoughtless, blind to fate, 2706. 

to command success, 4967. 
Mortality stands on the brink of its 

grave, 3362. 
Moss, the spray of, 5084. 
Mosses and heather, 2012. 
Mother, a, to her infant, 3365. 

astonish a, 624. 

happy be with such a, 3370. 

may fright the hopeful, 957. 

where yet was ever found a, 3367. 
Motion, he dies upon his, 5224. 

put them to, 5538. 
Motions, looks, and eyes, 1207. 
Mould, the very, and frame, 627. 
Mount, I know a, 3372. 
Mountains and caves, fit for, 3088. 

are my altars, 3467. 

ascend our rocky, 2595. 

blooming and sunny shores, 2455. 

have fallen, 3377. 



Mountains lift their heads, 4868. 

look on Marathon, 2033. 

make enemies of nations, 3373. 

make level, 1S68. 

piled on mountains, 124. 

scattered on the, 5540. 

the monarch of, 3378. 
Mountain-tops, he who ascends to, 130. 
Mountebanks, cheating, 4100. 
Mournings for the dead, 4805. 
Mouse that trusts to one hole, 549. 
Mouth, makes a furnace of his, 4713. 
Multitude, joined to that vast, 5261. 

the cry of an applauding, 3669. 

the wavering, 4372. 
Murder is near to lust, 4606. 

may pass unpunished, 3392. 

most foul, 33S8. 

war, I call it, 5567. 

will speak, 3389. 
Murderer, a pardoned, 3691. 
Murderers, gods fix revengeful eyes 

on, 3393. 
Murmur, I hear a solemn, 3601. 
Muse, how can my, want subject, 2445. 

the tragic first trod the stage, 40. 
louses mourning the death of learn- 
ing, 2635. 
Music, a battle rendered in, 2636. 

aloft in the air, 374. 

breathing from her face, 4826. 

can noble hints impart, 3404. 

can soften pain to ease, 3408. 

discord oft makes in, 1237. 

exalts each joy, 3425. 

frightful as the serpent'., hiss, 952. 

give me some, 3396. 

has charms, 3405. 

he hears no, 972. 

he makes sweet, 4942. 

heavenly maid, 3412. 

her soft voice applies, 3407. 

how sour is, when time is broke, 
1238. 

in the sighing, 3415. 

is as a voice, 3423. 

lovers' tongues are, 2837. 

made in heaven, 3411. 

melted in the throat, 4617. 

more of the, 5532. 

my pulse makes healthful, 3025. 

not for the doctrine, but the, 3410. 

of the spheres, 4601. 

others are content with, 5810. 

painting, or song, 5107. 

requires her aid, 5454. 

resembles poetry, 3409. 

and women should never be dated, 
98. 

softens every pain, 3425. 

slumbers in the shell, 3419. 

sphere-descended maid, 3413. 

the, banquet, and wine, 283. 

the ceasing of exquisite, 5815. 



72G 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Music the fiercest grief can charm, 

3408. 

the food of love, 3395. 

this must be the, 3417. 

to give consoling, 4627. 

waves eternal wands, 3421. 

with her silver sound, 3400. 

within and a song, 2101. 
" M usic of the spears," 3417. 
Musical, most, most melancholy, 3533. 

with birds, 5344. 
Music's force can tame the beast, 3406. 

golden tongue, 3401. 
Musing on companions gone, 3205. 
Muskets, thirty thousand, 5572. 
My fate depends on you, 1631. 
Myrtle crown lovers 5 heads, 3428. 

ensign of command, 3428. 

groves of sweet, 506. 

the soft, 3209. 
Mystery, the greater, 4693. 

of mysteries, 3513. 

Nail, one drives out another, 2378. 
Name at which the world grew pale, 
1575. 

each honored, 4751. 

forever sad, 2910. 

it sets me all on flame, 2929. 

never breathe a lost one's, 3432. 

of gentleman, 1905. 

our good or evil, 1846. 

take not his, 5064. 

tender of her own good, 4441. 

that dwells on every tongue, 3983. 

the fascination of a, 3430. 

the magic of a, 3431. 

the poet's sacred, 3920. 

what's in a, 3429. 

your, is great, 4250. 
Names, a thousand, 4437. 

critics deface other, 920. 

he loved to hear, 3318. 
Naples sitteth by the sea, 3433. 
Napoleon of the realms of rhyme, 
3861. • 

whose game was empires, 3434. 
Nation, one, evermore, 3756. 

the corner-stone of a, 3760. 
Nations kick off their burdens, 4170. 

let fierce contending, 1241. 

perish in their sins, 4201. 
Nativity, at my, 4041. 
Naturalists observe, 1208. 
Nature, a smile of, 782. 

and nature's laws, 3491. 

against the use of, 1656. 

art is the child of, 212. 

aspires to reach perfection, 3802. 

bounds as from birth, 3349. 

broke suddenly the mould, 3439. 

daughter of the skies, 3464. 

death is the privilege of human, 
1053. 



Nature despairing to make the like, 
3439. 

diseased breaks forth in erup- 
tions, 1336. 

extremes in, equal good produce, 
1495. 

falls into revolt, 1957. 

fits all her children, 917. 

first follow, 3447. 

formed but one such man, 4566. 

formed by, 3941. 

great parent, 3460. 

hath meal and bran, 3771. 

he walks with, 743. 

how fair is thy face, 3454. 

in the depths of, 4525. 

inviting him abroad, 837. 

is body, God the soul, 1950. 

is but an art, 4073. 

is frugal, 3463. 

let, never be forgot, 3444. 

marked by the hand of, 5495. 

mother of us all, 3453. 

mourns her worshipper, 3921. 

moves the mind, 928. 

never stands still, 567. 

one touch of, 3436. 

paints not in oils, 3452. 

playing tricks with, 3818. 

satisfy the mind, 3458. 

seems dead, 3501. 

recovered of her fright, 1663. 

rejoiceth, 253. 

shrinks from danger, 856. 

signs the last release, 7217. 

stands on the verge of her confine, 
91. 

spirit of, 3474. 

sw r ears, 5802. 

the book of, 5643. 
„ the cry of Faith will borrow, 222. 

the force of, could no further go, 
3243. 

the general smile of, 4870. 

the least a death to, 3387. 

the palaces of, 3376. 

the prodigality of, 1899. 

the rest of, 35*10. 

the symphony of, 3976. 

the tone of languid, 4378. 

the villanies of, 5494. 

to hide the sparks of, 3438. 

traced these lines, 3450. 

yields reward, 3449. 

wakes her power, 4026. 

will betray its folly, 3437. 

who can paint like, 3461. 

who lives to, 3462. 
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing 
well, 246. 

children divide her care, 3060. 

end of language is declined, 1327. 

everlasting smile, 3455. 

hand is liberal, 3466. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



727 



Nature's laws, he who studies, 3459. 

masterful, great men, 2761. 

own hand, 73S. 

peace, 407]. 

second course, 4671. 

sweet restorer, 4681. 

teaching, list to, 3456. 

works far lovelier, 3465. 
Natures, strong; give the weaker rest, 

2031. 
Near in hlood, 4189. 
Necessities, hours for, 4245. 
Necessity fronts the (universe, 3742. 

mother of the world, 3474. 

nature means, 3477. 

so bowed the state, 2016. 

soul of the world, 3478. 

the tyrant's plea, 3475. 

to which the gods must yield, 
3476. 
Nectar, smooth and slow, 5661. 
Needle and thread, 5152. 

camel to thread the eye of a, 
1218. 
Negligent, celerity is admired by the, 

35. 
Negroes more philosophy displayed, 

4666. 
Neighbor, no one will change his, 

4506. 
Neptune for his trident, 1706. 
Nerve thrills in each, 4536. 
Nerves grow firm by toil, 5287. 

my firm, shall never tremble, 1910. 
Nettle, stroke a, 3479. 
Never met or never parted, 2928. 

morning wore to evening, 4810. 

to have loved at all, 2925. 
New occasions teach new duties, 1332. 
Newmarket's glory rose, 2272. 
News, good, baits, 3484. 

older than their ale, 3929. 

rides post, 3484. 

the bringer of unwelcome, 3480. 

the tune's with labor, 3483. 

to bring bad, 3481. 

travelled with increase, 4374. 

whence cometh, 3489. 
Newspaper, only a, 3482. 
Newton, let, be, 3491. 
New Year, a happy, 2164. 

of all the glad, 3495. 
New-Year's sorrow, 3494. 
Night and Chaos, ancestors of nature, 
2145. 

awful, 3513. 

began to wave, 1013. 

black-cornered, 1164. 

came on apace, 3519. 

care's check and curb, 3517. 

darkens the landscape, 1826. 

darkens the streets, 3506. 

darkness falls from the wings of, 
1437. 



Night dividing darkness from the 
main, 1013. 

endless, 3522. 

fair virtue's friend, 3525. 

hath made many bards, 3512. 

holy, 3515. 

how beautiful is, 3529. 

image of hell, 3505. 

lit by the moon, 3514. 

in lonely triumph through, 3334. 

in the stillness of, 4912. 

is calm and cloudless, 4903. 

is descending, 5670. 

is fled, 1009. 

is long that never finds the day 
2238. 

is mother of the day, 2247. 

is the Sabbath of mankind, 3509. 

is the time for rest, 365. 

is without a sire, 1016. 

it is the noon of, 3238. 

like a widow in her weeds, 3521. 

morn smiles on the, 1005. 

morning steals upon the, 1003. 

o'erwhelms the sea, 1483. 

on dreary, 5045. 

on such a, 3526. 

queen of the, 3323. 

sable goddess, 3523. 

shall be filled with music, 1436. 

she sings her sorrows through 
the, 3535. 

shows stars and wo meu better., 
3527. 

silent as, 4692. 

that takes from the eye, 3499, 

the cloudy vale of, 3520. 

the, grows dark, 5177. 

the heart in love with, 3331. 

the sad and solemn, 4907. 

the witching hour of, 3237. 

the witching time of, 3504. 

this world's defeat, 3517. 

trembles o'er her beauty, 3511. 

with her sullen wing, 3508. 

with all its fires, 3623. • 
Night-crow, the, cried, 3655. 
Night- winds creep from leaf to leaf. 

4131. 
Night's, all was the, 3510. 

candles are burnt out, 1006. 

hemisphere veiled the horizon, 
3507. 

son was driving his horses up, 
230. 

swift dragons cut the clouds, 1007. 
Nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
3530. 

leave us the, 3532. 

that warblest at eve, 3534. 
Nightingale's complaining notes, 4281, 

high note is heard, 1445. 
Nights, these winter, 1860. 
Nile, the, forever new and old, 4342. 



728 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Nimrod, the chase began, 2297. 
No eye to watch us, 4775. 

goose so gray, 3131. 

learn to speak this word, 3536. 

one means you harm, 854. 

pleasure like the pain of loving, 
2967. 

spot of all the world my own, 
5543. 
Noah's ark, title drawn from the rolls 

of, 135. 
Nobility, a shadow of, 3544. 

virtue alone is, 3456. 
Noble, be, 3543. 

by birth, nobler by deeds, 3537. 

heart, a, 3545. 

shall we call those, 3547. 

to be good, 3548. 

who is honest is, 3540. 
Nobleness that lies in men, 3543. 

'tis, to serve, 4544. 
Nobles and heralds, 1420. 
Nobody at home, 5441. 

cares for me, 2398. 
Noddle, to comb your, 5529. 
Nods and becks and wreathed smiles, 

2103. 
Noise, retiring from the popular, 4283. 

so rude, 4642. 
None dare call it treason, 5330. 

so poor as do him reverence, 5485. 
Nonsense, a little, now and then, 3551. 

neither false nor true, 3549. 

seldom fails to hit, 3550. 
Noon, sweet delusive, 3232. 
North, ask where's the, 3553. 

the sullen murmurs of the. 4888. 

wind's masonry, 1862. 
Nose, a dose of snuff to his, 4725. 

and eyes, between, 4832. 

the doctor's, 3827. 

the, upon his face, his own, 1282. 
Not to know argues you unknown, 

2565. 
Note that swelled the gale, 4765. 
Notes, a chiel taking, 4244. 
Nothing comes too soon but sorrow, 
4798. 

dies but something mourns, 5405. 

goes right, 1988. 

in his life became him like the 
leaving of it, 1038. 

in this world can make me joy, 
1183. 

is a misery, 3277. 
Nothingness, hell is more bearable 

than, 2144. 
Notice, advance it into, 3982. 
Nought so vile on earth doth live, 5435. 
November comes at last, 3560. 

this sunlight shames, 265. 

thou hast stolen the smile of May, 
3561. 
November's rain descends, 3559. 



Numbers, err in this, 922. 

1 lisped in, 3885. 

who will serve, 5747. 
Nun, endure the livery of a, 3562. 
Nymph with dripping urn, 4879. 
Nymphs, tell me, 4325. 

dark ! dark ! dark ! 416. 

Death, O Beyond, 1873. 

gift of God, 1018. 

heaven! were man but constant, 
774. 

love, they die, 1347. 

most lame and impotent conclu- 
sion, 741. 

my prophetic soul, 1466. 

summer day beside the sea, 1017. 

that a man might know, 1S70. 

that deceit should dwell in such a 
palace, 1121. 

that I were a glove upon that hand, 
876. 

that this too too solid flesh would 
melt, 1182. 

tiger's heart, 939. 

weary hearts, 735. 

yet we trust, 734. 
Oak, I will rend an, 5218. 

monarch of the woods, 3565. 

rends the solid, 4578. 

the, commands the flood, 3565. 

the hardest-timbered, 4945. 

the patriarch of trees, 3564. 

the, shoots rising up, 3564. 

unwedgeable and gnarled, 3209. 
Oaks, charmed by the stars, 3566. 

the gray-green, 5044. 
Oath, breaking of an, 3576. 

he never made, 3575. 

be that imposes an, 3575. 

I'll not ask thy, 3571. 

sin to keep a sinful, 3568. 

to keep that, were impiety, 3596. 
Oaths are but words, 3579. 

are still more tough, 5537. 

are 6traws, 542. 

of thy deep kindness, 3570. 

sells, by tale, 5063. 

that make the truth, 3567. 

the breaking of all, 3578. 

were not purposed, 3573. 
Obedience is the Christian's crown, 

3586. 
Obey, let them, 3582. 

the first great law is to, 3587. 

you, I shall, madam, 3583. 
Oblivion, formless ruin of, 5236. 

to lie in dead, 4680. 
Observance, more honored in the 

breach than the, 966. 
Observation, let, survey mankind, 

3592. 
Observations which ourselves make, 
3591. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



729 



Observed of all observers, 1609. 
Observer's sake, partial for the, 3591. 
Obstinacy, is ne'er so stiff, 3594. 
Occasion's, wait on, forelock, 5913. 
Ocean, I have loved thee, 3599. 

I love thee, 3621. 

in the sunless retreats of the, 1214. 

melt to air, 4217. 

nought but, strives, 3596. 

of some enchanted, 3335. 

on the, of life, 1635. 

quoth the, 3595. 

sooner shall melt to air, 779. 

struggling into, 4337. 

the, is dearer for the shore, 3615. 

stretched in light, 3614. 

thou deep and dark blue, 3597. 
Ocean-space, the boundless, 5596. 
Ocean-valleys, far down the, 4486. 
Oceans, drinking dry, 2583. 
Ocean's gray and melancholy waste, 
3602. 

troubled foam, 4480. 
October, the sunshine of, 3627. 

turned my maple's leaves, 3630. 

wind, 3626. 
October's foliage yellows, 3628. 
Ocular proof, give me the, 4053. 
Oddity, frolic, and fun, 585. 
Odors crushed are better still, 56. 

crushed are sweeter still, 1972. 
Offence, his tongue did make, 1500. 

my, is rank, 3634. 

scorn to take, 3636. 

should bear his comment, 3633. 
Offending, my, hath this extent, 1470. 
Offers, you are liberal in, 4047. 
Office, the insolence of, 4974. 

the seals of, 128. 
Oh, that a dream so sweet, 1231. 
Oil, the midnight, 2639. 

vinegar, sugar, and salt, 1888. 
Old age fs still old age, 3651. 

and formal, 1770. 

as I am, 335. 

Nick, he gave his name to, 3018. 

she is not yet so, 5726. 

though I look, 3641. 

to the, 5278. 

you are, 1243. 
Olive-branch free from blight, 4830. 
Omission to do what is necessary, 1166. 
On, ye brave, 1695. 
Once in the flight of ages past, 3087. 
One against a multitude, 3631. 

fire burns out another, 4792. 

flag, one land, 3756. 

for sense and one for rhyme, 3867. 

heart, one mouth, one hand, 5078. 

leads the other, 3285. 

more unfortunate, 3279. 

struggle more, and I am free, 1604. 

the bell strikes, 5251. 

vacant chair, 3364. 



One was lost in the other, 2990. 

who writes amiss, 922. 
One's native land receding, 5327. 
Only the sea intoning, 1134. 
Onward as we roll, 5400. 
Order and perfection sought, 3443. 
Ornament, by that sweet, 4349. 

hiding grossuess with, 4192. 

is but the gilded shore, 3*377. 

the world is deceived with, 3676. 
Opinion governs all mankind, 3657. 

is but a fool, 3656. 

is of his own, still, 192. 

that inhuman brute, 3637. 

the last, 3978. 
Opinions, we should all, hold authen- 
tic, 136. 
Opportunity, thy guilt is great, 3664. 
Orators of miseries, 5838. 

the famous, 3666. 
Oratory, virginity of, 3672. 
Order is heaven's first law, 3674. 

in variety we see, 3675. 
Orient, light in the, 3159. 
Orion with his jewelled belt, 4909. 
Orpheus' lute was strung, 3399. 
Orthodox and true believing, 3678. 

prove their doctrine, 3679. 
Outcast of churcl>and state, 3680. 
Outlawed by himself," 3681. 
Over-proud and under-honest, 4017. 
Ovid's a rake, 3916. 
Owe, you say, you nothing, 1114. 
Owl, a mousing, 562. 

mighty sings the, 5664. 

night's herald, 1979. 

shrieked at thy birth, 3655. 

the, was a-cold, 368"2. 

the wren will fight the, 628. 
Owner, anything whereof he's, 1922. 

render the, tit for nothing, 5705. 
Oyster, the world's mine, 5862. 
Oyster-wench, off goes his bonnet to 

an, 3925. 
Oyster-women locked their fish up, 
4183. 

Pacific, the calm, 491. 
Page, the 6acred, 392. 
Pageants, more woeful, 5867. 
Pages, folio of four, 3486. 

skip o'er twenty, 247. 

the, that they read, 3170. 
Pain, a sting which wrought him, 1585. 

a stranger yet to, 4454. 

delights inherit, 3683. 

is no longer pain, 3687. 

is perfect misery, 3685. 

labor physics, 2579. 

not the less a, 3717. 

one, is lessened by another, 4792. 

past pleasure turns to, 3858. 

pays the income, 3684* 

taught by, 5592. 



730 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Pain, tender for another's, 3068. 

to love is a mighty, 2868. 

throes of ceaseless, 4981. 

too much, to feel anger, 3686. 

were we burdened with like 
weight of, 63. 

when it is past, 3687. 
Pains, there is a pleasure in poetic, 

3912. 
Painter, a flattering, 208. 
Painters, a picture for, 5464. 
Painting is a lie, a shadow, 4475. 

is welcome, 206. 
Pair, the kindest and the happiest, 

1755. 
Palace and a prison, 5460. 

on the, as the cottage, 4648. 
Pale, statue-like, and stern, 1774. 
Pall, a thought which pierced the, 

1866. 
Palm-trees, the plumy, 5831. 
Pang, a, as great, 4970. 

there is no future, 764. 

which seizes the bosom betrayed, 
2417. 
Pangs, keen were his, 2434. 
Panorama of a year, 5897. 
Paper credit, 911. 

dead, mute, and white, 2656. 

pen, and ink, 3791. 

unpleasant words that ever 
blotted, 2653. 
Paper's, my, out so nearly, 2664. 
Papers, speak from your folded, 3896. 

to rip their, 2655. 
Paradise, even in, unble6t, 5794. 

fair as the hills of, 3374. 

must I thus leave thee, 1476. 

'neath the palms of, 1079. 

of our despair, 2359. 

the air of, 1202. 

the gate of, 645. 

the keys of, 650. 

the, of fools, 669. 

thou only bliss of, 2096. 
Parallel, herself admits no, 3689 

none but himself can be his, 3688. 
Parasites, smooth detested, 3690. 
Pardon after execution, 716. 

is God's best attribute, 1763. 

is the nurse of woe, 3207. 

you might, him, 1769. 
Parents cannot stamp their race, 3696. 

to their offspring blind, 3695. 
Paris and Rome, the sewer of, 2769. 
Parson, the, knows enough, 685. 

there goes the, 689. 
Part, I have forgot my, 1761. 

shake hands and, 3710. 
Parting is such sweet sorrow, 1978. 

tears and present sleep, 3711. 

the pain of, 3707. 

this, was well made, 42. 
Partridges, nut-brown, 4860. 



Passion, a blind and foolish, 2899. 

a, for the name of Mary, 3149. 

affection, master of, 160. 

brings down on the best, 3728. 

can give wit, 5716. 

his, is so ripe, 754. 

if, met not some reward, 2941. 

is reason lure, 5319. 

in the first, 2415. 

in, we propose, 4098. 

is the gale, 3056. 

master in the breast, 274. 

no, gratified, except rage, 813. 

search the ruling, 4369. 

something with, clasp, 5079. 

such is the power of, 2780. 

the ruling, conquers reason, 2161. 

then with a, would I shake th* 
world, 149. 

there is no more spectral. 2119. 

what to ourselves in, we propose, 
148. 

when, rules, 3727. 
Passions, all, move under, 2986. 

can, vex his breast, 4870. 

discolored through our, 4009. 

if you consider their, 827. 

mav I govern my, 4515. 

of all base, 1661. 

that this world deform, 5515. 

the, thronged around, 3412. 

your mighty, 5805. 
Past, among the places of my, 3899. 

and to come seem best, 1235. 

enough of the, 5267. 

motionless stands the, 5246. 

summon from the shadowy, 4223. 

the, is past, 3730. 

the mouldering, 4808. 

the, still held undying spell, 4303. 

turns the, to pain, 3189. 
Pastime to harder bosoms, 3437. 
Pate, you beat your, 5441. 
Pathos of the falling leaf, 5410. 
Paths which lead the living to th« 
dead, 3497. 

which reason shuns, 3850. 
Patience, accomplish thy labor, 3743. 

and abnegation of self, 4530. 

grows not in all gardens, 3747. 

he preached up, 4117. 

I do oppose to his fury, 3734. 

I must bear with, 3742. 

is powerful, 3743. 

on a monument, 2800. 

preach, to the winds, 3740. 

proves at fault, 3748. 

sprinkle, on thy distemper, 3738. 

that which we en title, is cowardice. 
895. 

the exercise of saints, 3739. 

the passion of great hearts, 3749. 

to endure the load, 1777. 
Patriot, some stern, high, 3639. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



731 



Patriots are grown shrewd, 3755, 
Patriot's, boast, such is the, 2173. 

the, hand, 3753. 
Paul or Tully, 613. 
Paul's church and churchyard, 1753. 
Paunches, fat. have lean pates, 1942. 
Payment for so great a debt, 3105. 
Peace above all earthly dignities, 752. 

bid me hold my, 1203. 

carry gentle, 3770. 

courtshis hand, 3778. 

curs that like not, 32S4. 

hath her victories, 3772. 

I pray thee, 3812. 

in the olive-branch, 1732. 

in this weak piping time of, 3768. 

live in, 2626. 

in thy breast, 4675. 

is a conquest, 3763. 

on the earth, 3781. 

public and private, 4199. 

return, sweet, 3775. 

rules the day, 3777. 

seemed to reign upon earth, 263. 

spreads her charms in vain, 3778. 

the child of heaven, 3775. 

the offspring of power, 3773. 

.the prince of, 667. 

the soft phrase of, 4838. 

the softening arts of, 4660. 

the substance of sweet, 4546. 

the symphony of, 4986. 

thou "source of social life, 3774. 

to have a sodlv, 3766. 

to thy heart, 4*261. 

troubler of the world's, 958. 

untroubled davs of, 4225. 
Peak, he will love "each, 3379. 
Peal, the loud, begins, 2294. 
Pearl, a, may dwell in a toad's head, 
3784. 

how, did grow, 5156. 

in the depths of the sea, 4538. 

pure as a, 649. 

too rich a, for swine, 5365. 
Pearls, he who would search for, 581. 

those orient, 5604. 
Peasants, the hard hands of, 5113. 

'tis no sport for, 4860. 
Pebble stirs the peaceful lake. 1479. 
Pedantry is but a corn, 3788. 
Peddlers, and boats, and wagons, 5853. 
Peers grew proud in horsemanship, 

2272. 
Peuasus may deviate from the track, 

Pen flowing in love or dipped in hate, 
2660. 

is mightier than the sword, 3793. 

the man who has trailed a, 3790. 

to form a, 3792. 
Pencil, his was striking, resistless, 

207. 
Penance absolve our guilty fame, 547S. 



Pendulum betwixt a smile and tear, 

3086. 
Pension, he earned his laureate, 3862. 
Penitence, by, is wrath appeased, 4231. 
Penury afflicts these isles, 4661. 

and pine, 3952. 

where, is felt, 3960. 
People must be nurst, 1343. 

I love the, 3932. 

our slippery, 3938. 

when, are in the wrong, 1426. 

will be fools, 4137. 

will be stronger, 3796. 

you speak of the, 4019. 
Perdition catch my soul, 2852. 
Perfection, to their praise and, 4487. 
i Perfections, I feel this youth's, 2799. 
Perfection's height, to reach, 3S02. 
Performance, his, nothing, 4048. 
Perfume floats on the breeze, 4885. 
Perfumes, breathing, 668. 
Perils do environ the man, 1318. 

of wind and limb, 1686. 
Perjury stood up to swear, 4169. 

that heaven-defying vice, 5062. 
Perjuries are common as pence, 3804. 

Jove laughs at, 3803. 
Perseverance keeps honor bright, 3805. 
Person, without respect of, 3282. 
I Persuasion do the work of fear, 3809. 
Pestilence, like a desolating, 3966. 

strike all trades in Rome, 954. 
Peter's dome, 211. 
! Petitions pocketed not read, 3811. 
I Petticoat, I venerate a, 5809. 
I Pettifoggers damn their souls, 2621. 
| Phantasma, like a, 5181. 
Phantoms, the hideous, 2474. 
Philosopher, a, and a blockhead, 1274. 

an ancient sage, 5871. 

he was a shrewd, 3815. 

that could endure, 3812. 

there was never, 5310. 
Philosophers delight to stretch theiv 
talents, 3814. 

in raptures dream, 4510. 

learning leads astray, 2645. 
Philosophy, by whose light, 3819. 

dreamed of in our, 2564. 

charming is divine, 3813. 

directs your choice, 5889. 

the patriarch's ladder, 3820. 
Phcebus, the wheels of, 1011. 
Phrenology, a science, 3S21. 
Phyllis, the neat-handed, 809. 
Physic, take, pomp, 725. 

throw, to the dogs, 3822. 
Physician, a travelling, 3826. 

a wise, 3324. 
Physicians mend or end us, 3825. 
Pictures, dost thou love, 205. 

out of door, 5770. 
Piece, whoever thinks a faultless, to 
see, 921. 



732 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Pieces, you dash yourselves in, 4916. 
Pierian spring, taste not the, 1352. 
Piety a trade, 3828. 

if, be debarred excess, 4070. 
Pigmies are pigmies still, 3830. 
Pillows, to their deaf, 4672. 
Pilot, without a, 4338. 
Piu a day, a groat a year, 3831. 
Pipes, ye soft, play on, 3402. 
Pirates, from the waves, 2403. 

plead for, 823. 
Pistol, this cocking of a, 1321. 
Pitfall, extravagance, the rich man's, 

1493. 
Pitiful, wondrous pitiful, 4940. 
Pity and perhaps forgive, 1755. 

is the virtue of the law, 3834. 

makes her mad, 3838. 

never leaves the breast, 3837. 

on his losses, 2776. 

speaks to grief, 3839. 

swells the tide of, 1069. 
Pity's akin to love, 3835. 
Place for which he sued, 3639. 

give me the lowest, 2283. 

he that stands upon a slippery, 
991. 

I was in a better, 5321. 

this unfrequented, 4283. 
Plague o' both your houses, 959. 

upon such backing, 1817. 
Plainness sets off wit, 5711. 
Plains, wide o'er the, 5022. 
Plant, cheerless unsocial, 5901. 

fixed like a, 3054. 

in a garden grew, 4533. 
Planets to their spheres, 3492. 
Plaster, the floors of, 4320. 
Play, the wrecks of, 1882. 
Player, a strutting, 36. 
Players, the strolling tribe, a despic- 
able race, 37. 

all the men and women merely, 89. 

will you see the, 38. 
Plead it in heart and mind, 1673. 
Please, studious to, 3848. 

'twas natural to, 1337. 

we that live + o, 243. 
Pleasant, to see one's name in print, 

249. 
Pleasure and action make the hours 
6eem short, 27. 

and revenge are deaf, 3844. 

any jot of, 5502. 

at the helm, 5906. 

felt at home, 3250. 

friend of, 3413. 

grief treads on the heels of, 3129. 

holdeth man from heaven, 3857. 

in poetic pains, 3912. 

in the pathless woods, 4771. 

is a sin, 3083. 

is as great, 615. 

in being mad, 3027. 



Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, 
3858. 

no sterner moralist than, 3853. 

past, for, 3716. 

rightly understood, 3847. 

these for bin, 5426. 

'tis the highest heaven of, 2985. 

to excess, 3S4<>. 

unlooked for is thrice welcome, 
3856. 

we may spare, 3685. 

with, drugged, 44^:J. 
Pleasure-house, I built my soul a, 

3845. 
Pleasures are but few, 3960. 

are like poppies, 3855. 

doubling his, 3146. 

fresh revolving, 5453. 

mixed with pains appear, 2913. 

religion does not exclude, 4205. 

that to verse, 3914. 

these, might me move, 2875. 

unembittered flow, 5519. 

we will all the, prove, 2778. 
Plenty, as well as want, can separate 
friends, 1494. 

great, much formality, 1226. 

if, be the robe, 5314. 
Plodders ever won, 4931. 
Plough, seized the, 3859. 

the, employed kings, 3859. 
Plumage, snowy, to the gale, 5061. 
Pocket, pick a, 1924. 
Poems are of different sorts, 3902. 

seasoned with democracy, 3918. 
Poesy, nothing so difficult in, 3917. 

the more we feel of, 3909. 
Poet, a, is of some weight, 5468. 

God is the perfect, 3903. 

never durst touch pen, 2812. 

of God's making, 3876. 

the greatest living, 3860. 

the, is glad in spring, 3904. 

the, is sad in autumn, 3904. 

the, shall be questionable, 3898. 

the, worships without reward- 
3895. 

they had no, 3890. 

when the, dies, 3921. 
Poetess, a maudlin, 3884. 
Poetry, an art in Oxford, 3877. 

is a thing of God, 3909. 

it is not, 3887. 

makes men poor, 3869. 

of earth is never dead, 3913. 

she that is won Avith, 880. 

so much as mincing, 3866. 

the chariot where thoughts ride, 
3901. 

whose generous strains, 3870. 
Poets and friends are born, 1841. 

are all who love, 3908. 

have made us heirs, 3924. 

in distant ages born, 3243. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



;s3 



Poets in the rapture of their dreams, 
3907. 

live upon the light, 3910. 

lose half the praise, 3871. 

youthful, fancy, 337. 
Poet's brain, the strain lies deeper 
than the, 3905. 

ear, flattery lost on, 3922. 

license, 'tis the fee, 3906. 
Poise the cause injustice's scales, 2505. 
Poison be their drink. 952. 

men to death, 4646. 

more deadly than a mad dog's, 
2461. 

to shun their, 2448. 
Policy, the elements of, 4918. 
Pomp, what is, 3930. 
Poor and content is rich, 788. 

the, are outcasts, 3961. 
Pope, the, wears three crowns, 3931. 
Poplars showed their leaves, 4932. 
Port, the, is near, 2730. 
Portal, darkening to its end in a, 2731. 
Portia's counterfeit, 3944. 
Possession means to sit astride of the 

world, 3950. 
Possibilities, all, are in its hands, 5911. 
Pouncet-box, he held a, .997. 
Poverty, but not my will, consents, 
3953. 

by, depressed, 3958. 

is self-inflicted woe, 3959. 

to laugh at, 5198. 
Powder, sweet is the smell of, 5586. 
Power, a, ethereal, 5253. 

a, whose care teaches thy way, 
4077. 

fear loosens every, 1664. 

he hath no, 3968. 

I shall have no, 2806. 

is thy essence, 3940. 

mark the workings of the, 3464. 

peace is the offspring of, 3773. 

pollutes whate'er it touches, 3966. 

sovereign, is depressed, 3963. 

supreme, 4086. 

the shadow of your, 5421. 

the rabble are the supreme, 3281. 

the, who pities man, 729. 

the, who taught mankind, 4035. 

these lead life to, 4514. 

what can, give, 3964. 

what various wants attend on, 121. 

who have the, 3967. 
Powers, what dilates the, 5376. 
Praise, a glutton of, 1715. 

all his pleasure, 4285. 

and admire they know not what, 
3795. 

a fool's, 3984. 

a seller's, belongs, 3972. 

from a friend, 3980. 

gives no more to worth, 3975. 

pudding against, 3977. 



Praise, sacred lust of, 3979. 

the worthiness of, 3973. 

they should have got, 3871. 

is lost, 3225. 

they know not what, 3285. 

thine shall be the, 2445. 
Praising what is lost, 3970. 
Pray to the gods, 4200. 
Prayer against his decree, 3988. 

all his business, 4285. 

every wish is like a, 5695. 

he enters heaven with, 4002. 

her eyes are homes of, 1523. 

incessant, if by, 3988. 

is the Christian's breath, 4002. 

is a prayer of faith, 5891. 

is speaking truth to Truth, 3997- 

is the world in tune, 4000. 

making their lives a, 2747. 

opens heaven, 3992. 

should dawn with the day, 3998. 

the day of, 4384. 

the messengers of, 4389. 

they lift not hands of, 4003. 

unheard or vain, 4004. 

white as wings of, 5030. 

why was my, accepted, 641. 
Prayers, a good man's, 4001. 

by losing of our, 4065. 

fall to thy, 87. 

grant me grace to say my, 3995. 

losing of our, 2350. 

some went again to, 4579. 
Preacher, a, and a player, 1274. 
Preacher's language 'or expression, 

4005. 
Precedence, we should allow, 5605. 
Precedents, to follow foolish, 968. 
Preferment goes by letter, 1650. 
Presence, bear a fair, 2312. 

be scanter of your maiden, 2845. 

the desire of their, 2659. 
Present, proud of the, 2701. 

the, is all thou hast, 4012. 

the, is our own, 2097. 
Press not a falling man too far, 3665. 

the, god of our idolatry, 4013. 

the, would prove a vehicle ci 
truth, 4014. 

turn to the, 3487. 
Pretension, yield all poetical, 3864. 
Priam, had, checked his son's desire. 

1177. 
Price of many a c.-ime untold, 1965. 
Pride, aiming at the biest abodes, 4025. 

and haughtiness of soul, 4021. 

defrauds her daily cheer, 4027. 

hath no glass to show itself, 4018. 

haughtiness, opinion, lose hearts, 
4016. 

how insolent is, 4622. 

in, our error lies, 4025. 

in reasoning lies, 4152. 

in their port, 4024. 



734 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Fride, my, broke under me, 112. 

needful, 4023. 

proceeds from want of sense, 4030. 

steos in to our defence, 4023. 

surly English, 4469. 

that always shows, 3636. 

that apes humility, 22S4, 2285. 

the, of nature, 5713. 

the vice of fools, 4024. 
Priest is merry and blithe, 5272. 

perhaps thou wert a, 4033. 

this meddling, 4031. 

shark, alderman, or pike, 1223. 

hypocrisy infects the holy, 2338. 
Priestcraft never owns its juggles, 

4033. 
Priests, of all religions, 4032. 
Primeval, this is the forest, 1759. 
Primrose, a, by a river's brim, 2395. 

sweet as the, 3296. 

up comes the, 4880. 
Prince, I'd serve my, 3013. 

who kept the world in awe, 1057. 
Princes and lords may flourish, 3785. 

and lords the breath of kings, 2195. 

are strangers to Truth, 5370. 

are the glass, 4034. 

have their titles, 4361. 

the hearts of, 2529. 

the heavens blaze forth the death 
of, 1021. 
Principles that usher to destruction, 

4918. 
Print, pleasant to see one's name in, 

249. 
Prison, stone walls do not make a, 4036. 
Prisoner's life, jury passing on the, 

2498. 
Privy-counsellor to himself, 4499. 
Probability, keep, in view, 4037. 
Probation bear no hinge, 4053. 
Procrastination, the thief of time, 4038. 
Prodigals, say what they will of, 4845. 
Profession sure to pay, 2620. 
Profit, no, grows, 4954. 

of excess, 2036. 
Progress, the ball of, 4460. 
Prologues precede the piece, 4045. 
Promethean fire, 1502. 
Promise, who broke no, 4920. 
Promises fly beyond his state, 4046. 

his, were mighty, 4048. 

like Adonis' gardens, 4049. 
Proofs that not one text explain, 4540. 
Prophecies, to frustrate, 4236. 
Prophets whisper change, 5186. 
Prose, drawl out measured, 463. 

which they call verse, 3894. 
Proselytes and converts, 4057. 

of one another, 4056. 
Prosperity be thy page, 384. 

becalmed his breast, 3063. 

conceals man's brightest ray, 77. 

doth bewitch men, 4061. 



Prosperity, how portentous is, 4063. 

surer to prosper than, 4062. 
Prosperity's the bond of love, 2824. 
Proud, the, he tamed, 694. 
Proverb, never stale in thrifty mind, 

544. 
Providence all good and wise, 4072. 

I may assert, 4u 68. 

there's a special, 4066. 
Prude, acts the, 2329. 

the graver, 5791. 

you ancient, 4090. 
Psalmist's, the, music deep, 4691. 
Psalms, some sung, 4206. 
Public, speak in, 5468. 
Publisher, death to his, to him 'tis 

sport, 251. 
Pudding against praise, 3977. 
Pun, rejoiced in a, 585. 
Punishment, an everlasting, 793. 

back to thy, 5226. 

her stroke delays, 4093. 

I require his, 4315. 
Purpose, forego the, 4265. 

is the slave to memory, 4098. 

sworn to either's, 5334. 
Purse, an empty, 4436. 
Purses, fill their, out of controversies, 
2619. 

their love lies in their, 3299. 
Pyramids are pyramids, 3830. 

Quacks, despairing, 3S8. 
Quakers, please both man and God, 
4104. 

will not swear, 4103. 
Quarrel, a very pretty, 4109. 

and offence, full of, 4107. 

beware of entrance to, 4106. 

most unnatural, 4306. 

no, but a slight contention, 754. 

no true valor in a, 4105. 
Quarrelets of pearl, 5156. 
Quarrels, they who interpose in, 4108. 

those who interpose in, 1693. 
Queen Bess, stamped with image of, 
1965. 

every lady would be, 5793. 

hail, wayward, 4857. 

Mab hath been with vou, 4344. 

of night, the, 3321. 

of the May, 3495. 

the British, 4727. 

what, so fair, 2760. 
Question, a, yet to prove, 2S44. 
Quickly, 'twere well it were done, 32 
Quickness, with too much, 4110. 
Quicksand, halts on a, 5338. 
Quiet days, long life, 5277. 

is mankind's concern, 4211. 

to quick bosoms a hell, 4111. 
Quill, my gray -goose, 3792. 
Quiver, his golden, 5040. 
Quotations are allied, 4114. 



INDEX TO QUOTATfOXS. 



735 



Rabble, a miscellaneous, 3795. 

all alive, 3287. 

the, are the powers, 3286. 
Race, forget the human, 4770. 

proud of an illustrious, 3547. 

the glory of his, 3435. 

their vulgar, 3281. 

this clear benefactor of the, 2761. 
Radiance twinkles, 1940. 
Rage, the boundless, for glory, 1934. 
Raiment, to wear his wrongs like, 
845. 

wear them like his, 1371. 
Rain comes when the wind calls, 4121. 

dropping tears of, 4935. 

drops of, 711. 

holds empire of the sky, 4125. 

how beautiful is the, 4120. 

sadly falls the autumn, 3555. 

sometimes a burst of, 5173. 

spends his honey-drops, 4127. 

that breaks in torrents, 2300. 

the thirsty earth soaks up the, 
1318. 

the trickling, doth fall, 1422. 
Rainbow in the sky, 4134. 

now overhead, a, 4132. 

the, span the sky, 4131. 

unrolled its pinions, 4135. 
Rainbows, month crowned with, 188. 
Rainbow's, the, hues, 4129. 
Rank, a woman's, 5829. 

for her meant duty, 1329. 

is a farce, 4137. 

is but the guinea stamp, 4138. 

is good, gold is fair, 2903. 
Rant, I'll, as well as thou, 436. 
Raphael, the mighty master, 209. 
Raphael's godlike art, 4139. 
Rattle, pleased with a, 3061. 
Raven, the, flaps her funeral wing, 
1804. 

the tempest-loving, 4929. 
Ravens, he that doth feed the, 1946. 
Ravishment, divine enchanting, 3403. 
Ray, a departing rainbow's, 1536. 

one twinkling, 4913. 
Read, all rests with those who, 4143. 

over this, and this, 2654. 

what and how, to, 2680. 
Reader, reads no more, 4145. 

threatened with sleep, 3881. 
Reality, a realm of wild, 4684. 
Reason, a woman's, 4146. 

faith is higher than, 1549. 

guides our deeds, 2446. 

is progressive, 4155. 

let your, question, 655. 

love's reason is without, 2831. 

my guide, I would make, 4154. 

or instinct, 4150. 

rules the mind, 3777. 

should choose a wife, 3108. 

the dotard's directress, 4156. 



Reason, the eve of, 3632. 

the feast of, 4153. 

thus with life, 2691. 

'tis more just to curb, 4211. 

to ask a, is treason, 929. 

when, sleeps, fancy wakes, 1291. 
Reason's comparing balance, 4528. 
Reasons, good, give place to better, 
4147. 

these are their, 4042. 

why we smile and sigh, 4776. 
Rebel, to, is vain, 4257. 
Rebellion began to grow slack, 4165. 

dishonoring word, 4171. 

froze them up, 4158. 
Rebels, the worst of, 4167. 
Rebukes, so tender of, 4172. 
Reckoning, O weary, 4. 

when the banquet's o'er, 4174. 
Reconcilement never can grow, 2112. 
Records, I'll wipe away all, 31S7. 
Recreation of tired thought, 4178. 
Redcoat, when a, is in sight, 4744. 
Reformation, plotting some new, 4184. 
Refusal no rebuff, 883. 
Refusals, 'tis line to see them scatter. 

ing, 882. 
Regret and faith alike enchain, 736. 

several pitied with, 4446. 

wild with all, 4186. 
Regrets and recollections, 5207. 
Refent, not to, is savage, devilish, 2370, 
Relief, my, must be to loathe her,, 

2412. 
Religion crowms the statesman, 4199. 

does not censure, 4205. 

fight for, 801. 

has so seldom found, 4202. 

is a spring, 4197. 

our scourging of, 4193. 

veils her fires, 576. 

what error in, 4192. 
Religion's lustre is pure, 4196. 
Religions, gold will knit and break, 
3300. 

priests of all, 4032. 
Religious, punctual, frugal, 679. 

sects ran mad, 4208. 

whim, 4203. 
Remedies in ourselves do lie, 2399. 

oft lie in ourselves, 4213. 

when, are past, 2050. 
Remedy, things without, 4253. 

worse than disease, 4212. 
Remember, I cannot but, 3186. 

I, how my childhood fleeted by, 
3199. 

when I, something, 4187. 
Remembered, I've been so long, 4216. 
Remembrance, keep this, 4214. 

makes the, dear, 3970. 

never must awake, 2933. 

wakes, 3189. 
Remorse, huve me feel, 4777. 



r 36 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Remorse is as the heart, 4229. 

stop up the access to, 4097. 

thy Jiangs, 422S. 

river of, 2314. 
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, 

slow, 4760. 
Renown of being smart, 5718. 

thieves of, 1935. 
Rents and bills unpaid, 4297. 
Repartee, a man renowned for, 4230. 
Repent, never known to, 4166. 
Repentance is long, 4241. 

is the weight, 4242. 
Reply, theirs not to make, 5558. 
Repose, best of men have loved, 4246. 

finds but short, 1932. 

he wakes from short, 3786. 

I sigh for, 4274. 

times for comforting, 4245. 
Reproach and shame sit mocking, 

894. 
Reproaches, slanderous, 4635. 
Reproof, those can bear, 4248. 
Repulse, for one, 4265. 
Republic, one bright, 4392. 
Reputation, a, dies at every word, 
1207. 

bleeds in every word, 4651. 

I have lost my, 4251. 

is the purest treasure, 2202. 
Requiem, the master's, 3429. 
Resolution, the native hue of, 4264 

the spirit of, 4262. 
Resolution's my, placed, 4263. 
Respect for the world, 4268. 
Rest, a, for weary pilgrims, 2007. 

for all things, 4270. 

for creatures under the sea, 4270. 

is one with prayer, 426. 

is sweet after strife, 4273. 

love is, 2884. 

remaining, there is a, 4179. 

shadows of true, 4385. 
Resting-places, they are fair, 704. 
Restraint, scope turns to, 4421. 
Retirement, O blest, 4291. 

that could afford, 5492. 

urges return, 4753. 
Retreat, a brave, 4301. 

the loopholes of, 4295. 
Retreats and flowery solitudes* 4289. 
Revenge a virtue, 4314. 

honor calls for, 4311. 

my great, 4308. 

or death, 3757. 

recoils on itself, 4310. 

spirit ranging for, 4305. 

stirred with envy and, 4420. 

supplies the loss, 4312. 

the convert of, 2118. 

too weak for my, 4307. 
Revenged on him that loveth thee, 

4306. 
Reveries, defend me from, 2585. 



Reviewers, who shall dispute, 929. 
Revolution, great talk of, 4323. 
Reward, ambition has but one, 118. 

what is, 4D7D. 
Revenue, a young man's, 1481. 
Rhetoric, for, 4324. 
Rhine, imported from the, 982. 

what power shall wash the, 4325. 
Rhyme, let sense accompany- your, 
3S74. 

must be made, 3874. 

prepare for, 4435. 

the man of, 1222. 

the rudder is of verses, 3868. 

the sacred art of, 3873. 

those that write in, 3867. 
Rhymes, mighty were her, 4428. 

monarchs less imperative than, 
3919. 
Rialto, five fathom under the, 3416, 
Ribbon, srive me but what this, bound, 

1925. 
Rich, not gaudy, 168. 
Riches, extol not, 4327. 

giving joy with, 5687. 

have wings, 1078. 

he can ne'er enjoy, 3272. 

of heaven's pavement, 4326. 

thou bearest thy, 5602. 

wait but for wings, 275. 

your better part, 4328. 
Rider, a proud, on so proud a back, 

2268. 
Ridicule is a weak weapon, 4335. 

shrink from, 4565. 
Riding, fencing, gunnery, 4S62. 
Right, cannon to, 5559. 

seizes the, 5683. 
Rights are staked and won, 1807. 
Rigor, and not law, 2504. 

take her time, 4093. 
Ring out the darkness of the land, 

377. 
River, oh, darkling, 4339. 

she sat by the, 5136. 
River's brim, a primrose by a, 2395. 
Rivers cannot quench, 4050. 
Road, w r e keep the, 969. 
Roaming, I am weary of, 4274. 
Roar, hear its multitudinous, 3614. 

streams tumultuous, 5173. 
Robbed, he that is. 740. 
Robes, the sun gathered his, 5028. 
Rock, the vessel on the, 4578. 

this, shall fly, 849. 
Rocks are not so stout, 5242. 

do threaten her, 1981. 

northward o'er the icy, 4887. 

their torpid, 5672. 
Rogue, some busy, 4644. 

that is not fool is, 1743. 
Roman, rather a dog than eruch a, 
4464. 

such a. 496. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS 



'37 



Romances paint people's wooings, 

4346. 
Romans call it stoicism, 4021. 
Rome shall fall, 4348. 

the aisles of Christian, 211. 

the cardinal is here from, 3150. 

you shames of. ! 
Roof, a fusillade on the. 4123. 
Room, a, where no one enters, 3202. 

hot, narcotic, 4714. 

in the worst inn's worst, 4320. 

without a soul, 4772. 

tottering from room to, 5908. 
Rooms, into my silent, 4876. 
Rose, a, should shut, 4351. 

distilled. 555. 

go, lovely, 4355. 

in June, beautiful as a, 3605. 

beauteous, 4358. 
one white, 4356. 

the, fairest when budding, 2961. 

the, looks fair, 309. 

the, of hope is dead, 4802. 

the, saith in the morn, 4353. 

the, that lives its hour, 334. 

the tint and odor of the, 2356. 

thou art the sweetest flower, 
4352. 

who can view the, 5184. 

within the, I found a tear, 1216. 

with its leaves yet folded, 636. 

would smell as sweet, 3429. 
Rosebud, a, set with thorns, 5826. 
Rosebuds, gather, while ye may, 

4354. 
Ro6es, a shower of, 4867. 

bright June, 5647. 

have thorns, 1646. 

1 wish the sky would rain, 4350. 
morning, newly washed with dew, 

316. 

of heaven, 5755. 

she wore a wreath of, 3171. 

you love the, 4350. 
Rousseau, self-torturing sophist, 

wild. 4360. 
Rout, the, is Folly's circle, 988. 
Rudeness is a sauce to his wit, 423. 
Ruffles, when wanting a shirt, 974. 
Ruin, a *euiple in, 4367. 

majestic though in, 1219. 

• V smoking, 5577. 

the way to, 4919. 

upon ruin. 1147. 
Rule, a sacred, we find, 4449. 

the good old, 3967. 

through seas of blood, 2803. 
Rum and religion, 4206. 
Rumor doth double the numbers, 4373. 

is a pipe, 4372. 
Rumors, the, gathered as they rolled, 

4374. 
Rustics, the gaping, 106. 
Rust the hidden treasure frets, 5436. 



Sabbath brings its kind release, 439L 
he made the. shine. 4389. 
he who ordained the, 4390. 
thee I hail, 4383. 

too much, into Sundaj-, 4381. 
Sacrifice, there is a. 417'.'." 
Sad, 'tis impious to be, 3385. 

words of tongue or pen, 41S8. 
Sadder, and wiser, 78. 
Sadness and longing, a feeling of, 4221. 

in sweet sound. 3420. 
Safety, we pluck this flower, 996. 
Sages and chiefs had birth, 3890. 

pour out wisdom, 3853. 
Sail, the white and rustling, 4399. 

the wind sits in your, 4397. 
Sailor, a drunken, on a mast, 1648. 
Sails are scattered abroad, 4936. 

behold the threaden, 4567. 

that drift at night, 4572. 
Saint in crape and in lawn, 4407. 

a damned, 2319. 

a, run mad, 4409. 

Peter sat by the gate, 4402. 

teach sin the carriage of a, 2312. 

thou'rt too much a, 4411. 

would be, the devil a, 1210. 
Saints and sinners, 4056. 

and wicked vary, 5182. 

as you are, 4413. 

avenge thy slaughtered, 5540. 

began their reign, 4404. 

great men rnay jest with, 414. 

in peace degenerate, 4403. 

in your injuries, 5770. 

leaves, to enjoy, 4204. 

these warring, 4412. 

whose lives are better, 4415. 
Sale, to things of, 3972. 
Salt, the, is spilt, 4416. 

why shun the, 4417. 
Sand, a heap of lime and, 4364. 
Sands are numbered that make up 

mv life, 1034. 
Satan, filled with scorn, 4467. 

finds some mischief still, 2402. 

is wiser than of yore, 440S. 
Satire, enough of, 4428. 

flies abroad, 4430. 

in general, 443S. 

is Virtue's friend, 4429. 

let, be my song, 4435. 

let, less engage you, 4434. 

my modest, 3888. 

recoils when charged too high, 
4433. 

or sense, 4424. 

true to virtue's cause, 4432. 

must always make way, 4431. 

should wound with a touch, 4426. 

wields her flail, 4427. 
Satire's my weapon, 4425. 
Satirist, a "would-be, 933. 
Satirists are a public scourge, 4436. 



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INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Satisfied, he is paid that is, 4439. 
Saviour, to follow the sacred feet of 

her, 1213. 
Saviour's yoke, he who scorns the, 

4195.' 
Saws, wise, and modern instances, 

2503. 
Scarecrow, to make a, of the law, 2609. 
Scale, hy geometric, 3153. 
Scandal, an inoffensive, 5116. 

has new-minted a lie, 4437. 

of the first renown, 4443. 

of their age, 1934. 

waits on greatest state, 2021. 
Scars, he jests at, that never felt a 
wound, 1484. 

of the mind, 4801. 
Scene, for change of, 4423. 

solitary, silent, solemn, 676. 

let me review the, 4223. 

the, is touching, 5907. 
Scenes, glorious Gothic, 4368. 

must be beautiful, 4293. 

of land and deep, 4773. 

sick of gaudy, 4759. 
Sceptre, a, snatched, 5437. 

his hand to wield a, 2528. 
Sceptres and crowns, 4631. 
Sceptic, whatever, could inquire for, 

3815. 
Science an exchange of ignorance, 
2574. 

blessings on, 4460. 

curse on your lying, 1791. 

frowned not on his humble birth, 
1418. 

his views enlarges, 3774. 

hold the eel of, 2390. 

is the culture of his heart, 4525. 

O star-eyed, 4459. 

plans their toil, 4458. 

trace, then, 4457. 
Schismatics so vastly differ, 4451. 
Scholar, a ripe and good, 1411. 

he was a, 578. 

mark what ills the scholar's life 
assail, 242. 
Scholars, the land of, 1385. 

when they've taken their degrees, 
4406. 
School, the master taught his, 4455. 
School-boy, the whining, 472. 
School-days, in my, 591. 
Schoolmasters, injuries must be their, 

1486. 
Schools, bewildered m the maze of, 

908. 
Score, he never pays the, 4843. 
Scorn, in spite of, 5137. 

in vengeance, 5459. 

makes after-love the more, 4462. 

on the pedestal of, 4466. 

the sound of public, 4468. 

to me to harp on such s> string, 783. 



Scorn, to point his finger at, 4465. 
Scotland, spoke of in,' 1660. 
Scots, 1 railed at, 4472. 

the, are poor, 4469. 
Scribbler, who shames a, 4473. 
Scribblers are my game, 4474. 

of every sort, 5444. 
Scripture, the devil can cite, 4113. 
Scruple, some rose, 760. 
Scruples, he could raise, 800. 
Sculptor, a, wields the chisel, 4477. 

and bard, 1576. 
Sculpture is more divine, 4475. 

is more than painting, 4476. 
Security is mortal's enemy, 4503. 
Sea and sky seemed mingling, 5023. 

beauty in the, 3511. 

behold the, 3605. 

compassed by the inviolate, 5486. 

ebb in that tideless, 4482. 

is still and deep, 3606. 

full of meanings, like the. 4143. 

I loved the, 3623. 

Naples sitteth by the, 3433. 

one foot in, and one on shore, 2377. 

ran high, 152. 

rivers run to the changeless, 4341. 

rules all the, 3321. 

so many fathoms to the, 1285. 

the, fondled the shore, 3608. 

the free, mighty, music-haunted, 
3613. 

the fury of the, 5167. 

the, hath drops too few to wash 
her, 2411. 

the, heaves up, 3611. 

the, is a jovial comrade, 3618. 

the, is lonely, 3617. 

the, is silent, 3607. 

the love-gifts of the, 3616. 

the mist comes up from, 257. 

the, on a white shore, 3616. 

the, tosses and foams, 3468. 

the voice of the, 3601. 

this precious stone set in the sil 
ver, 1381. 

to utter the story of the, 5598. 

waits ages in its bed, 3610. 

wanderer of the, 492. 

wandering by the, 3603. 

white as a sail on a dusky, 2263. 

with sunny shore, 2740. 

writes her yearning in vast caves, 
3612. 

yon sun that sets upon the, 43. 
Sea's, the, absorbing blue, 3G19. 
Seal, every god set his, 3041. 
Seamen on the deep, 4400. 

the, laughed, 4569. 
Sea-ghost all in gray, 5406. 
Sea-monster, more hideous than the, 

2429. 
Sea-sickness, a beef-steak against; 
44fc^ 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



739 



Search will find it out, 3806. 
Seas, amid the subject, 1384. 

and women, stormy, 5806. 

laugh when rocks are near, 4061. 

of gore, 1581. 

sails unknown, 5323. 
Season, loveliest, of the year, 189. 

of mists and fruitfulness, 254. 
Seasons return, hut not to me, 418. 
Second marriage, 3114. 
Secret, a, in his mouth, 4500. 
Secrets lie within thy bosom, 3453. 
Sect, slave to no, 2384. 

the adverse, denied, 396. 
Sects, our, grow higher, 4501. 

petulant, capricious, 1267. 
Sedge, a kiss to every, 4942. 
See how the orient dew, 1215. 
Seed, who soweth good, 4277. 
Self, enough of, 4510. 

1 turned away my, 4237. 
Self-approviug hour whole years out- 
weighs, 759. 

concern, in others, 4526. 

condemned, deal that justice on 
the, 764. 

defence is a virtue, 4518. 

denial, there lies the, 1144. 

love is not so vile a sin, 4527. 

love, the spring of motion, 4528. 

neglecting, vile as, 4527. 

reverence, self-knowledge, 4514. 

slaughter, his canon 'gainst, 1182. 
Selves, stepping-stones of their dead, 

1490. 
Senate, we may go to the, 5382. 
Senates have been bought for gold, 498. 
Sense and song, 5853. 

good, defaced by false learning, 
908. 

is our helmet, 5715. 

is rarely found, 1364. 

leave the, 717. 

shocks all common, 3674. 

the gift of heaven, 4531. 

the stomach of my, 5093. 

to copy faults is want of, 2363. 
Senses, it ravishes all, 5776. 
Sentence, he bears the, 4795. 

he mouths a, 3670. 
Sensibilities are so acute, 4532. 
Sensitive, a, plant, 4533. 
Sentiment sacrificed to sound, 5470. 
Seraph with the glory, 4619. 
Seraphs share with thee knowledge, 

210. 
Sermon, a living, 694. 

style, he lied in, 2336. 
Sermons in stones, 49. 
Serpent, a, with an angel's voice, 2334. 

be the, under it, 2313. 

by the tongue, 1154. 

heart, 2319. 

sting thee twice, 545. 



Serpent, the infernal, 4420. 
Serpent's who 'scapes the, sting? 744. 
Serpents that sting the soul, 1132. 

thinkest thou there are no, 1132. 
Servants put each other out, 2104. 

wound their masters' fame, 4545. 
Serve, love, and obey, 5731. 
Service, all, is the same with God, 5854. 

I have done the state some, 4541. 

repaid with thanks, 5189. 

'tis the curse of, 1650. 
Servitude, the worst of ills, 970. 
Set hills on hills betwixt me, 5225. 
Sex, I love the, 2557. 

spirits can either, assume, 1913. 
Sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, 4547. 
Shade and solitude, 3524. 

some boundless contiguity of, 
4761. 

some rural, 4296. 

that follows wealth or fame, 1863. 
Shades, gloomy, silent, 4759. 

welcome, ye, 4288. 

which will not vanish, 763. 
Shadow of a shade, 3066. 

of such greatness, 5333. 

the, stretches, 5296. 

they hunt a, 2220. 
Shadows, coming events cast, 4055. 

clouds, and darkness rest on it, 
1431. 

creep across the waves, 4552. 

fall, the black, 3516. 

kiss, some there be that, 4550. 

of the silver mist, 5638. 

seem to listen, 4551. 

some there be that kiss, 2545. 

fatal that walk by us, 1246. 

on the whiter sky, 1174. 

our fatal, 30. 
Shaft at random sent, 2138. 
Shakespeare grew immortal, 4561. 

have we not, 4560. 

immortai, rose, 4563. 

on whose forehead, 4562. 

played, 4558. 

sat in the first seat, 4559. 

the tongue that, spake, 1802. 

what needs my, 4556. 
Shakespeare's magic, 4557. 
Shame and misery, 5372. 

he was not born to, 2214. 

men grin at a brother's, 3049. 

reproach and everlasting, 894. 

sweet fellowship in, 1307. 

to do a deed of, 5495. 

where is thy blush, 4564. 
Shares, a breath may burst his, 4333. 
She was a form of life, 353. 

is a woman, therefore may be 
wooed, 874. 

is mine own, 5728. 

was his life, 2960. 

walks in triumph, 3334. 



•40 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Sheep are gone to fold, 1979. 

in their manners, 4414. 

without, wolf within, 4094. 
Sheets, its teeming, survey, 3487. 
Shell, pearl may be found in a, 3784. 
Shells by the ocean, of truth, 3493. 
Shepherds, sorrow to, 4928. 
Ship, every, brings a word, 2658. 

every day brings a, 2658. 

hangs on the verge of death, 4577. 

how swift his, 3705. 

in the wide ocean, 5268. 

one launched a, 731. 

save your, from, wrack, 2087. 

steer a, becalmed, 1981. 

went on with solemn face, 3711. 
Ships, ghosts of buried, 703. 

have been drowned, 4398. 

like, they steer their courses, 
3868. 

that have gone down at sea, 2972. 

that pass in the night, 1635. 
Shipwreck, he has suffered, 4575. 
Shoes, the modish, 4581. 
Shore, adieu, my native, 43. 

launches from the, 4089. 

trust to the, 4576. 

yearning of a wave for the, 2772. 
Shores, whisperings round desolate, 

3609. 
Shot, bounding at the, 4861. 
Shout, hark to that shrill, 3669. 
Show, let's not be cheated by outward, 
173. 

that which j>asseth, 4791. 
Shower, sweet is the vernal, 5192. 
Showers, one cloud of winter, 1810. 
Shrine, draw near to this sad, 1416. 

of the mighty, 1413. 
Shroud, remembrance of a, 3500. 

the future's sable, 1877. 
Shrugs and contortions, 5326. 
Shuttle, the, comes and goes, 3897. 
Shutter, rain rattles on the, 4119. 
Sickness, age, and care, 5163. 
Side, toward the sunny, 5909. 
Sigh, a, that hurts by easing, 4051. 

no more, ladies, 1124. 

waft a, 45 S4. 
Sighs are deposited, 4586. 

deeper for suppression, 2943. 

subside, and tears shrink, 4585. 

your last, 5811. 

on the Bridge of, 5460. 

sad, deep groans, 940. 
Sight, an awkward, 5327. 

feasts his, 5323. 

lost to, 5230. 

more detestable than him and 
thee, 2111. 

O loss of, 417. 

though lost to, 6. 
Signatures of grace, 3696. 
Silence and sleep, 3236. 



Silence and solitude, the soul's friends 
4825. 

be checked for, 62. 

bewrays more woe, 4592. 

bound in chains of, 3486. 

coeval with eternity, 4596. 

into the primeval. 4220. 

is commendable, 4 • ). 

is God's poet, 4 

is the herald of joy, 4588. 

is the speech of love, 4601. 

may be eloquent, 4595. 

'mid the world's din, 5083. 

more musical than song, 4593, 

of pure innocence, 2442. 

persuades, 4591. 

prolonged and unbroken, 4602. 

reigns o'er the fields, 3552. 

the rest of, 4599. 

the soul of, 4598. 
Silent, always, 4597. 

and motionless we lie, 1107. 

organ chants the requiem, 3422. 
Silver, bars of, 5611. 

fight with shafts of, 3312. 
Simplicity a grace, 326. 
Sin can cover itself, 4609. 

careless of the damning, 5063. 

could blight ^: sorrow fade, 2404 

descended from one, 4612. 

foulest whelp of, 4655. 

in lashing, 4613. 

is patched with virtue, 4182. 

knowing within, 4607. 

knowledge of, is half-repentance, 
4611. 

one, provokes another, 4606. 

smacking of every, 5418. 

some rise by, 4605. 

to swear unto a, 3568. 

whoever plots the, 3664. 
Sin's extremest gust, 4516. 
Sincerity, better is the wrong with, 

4615. 
Sinews bought and sold, 4663. 
Sing, let me soar and, 4621. 

seraph, poet, 4619. 
Singers shall have help of Him, 4620. 
Singing, in this my, 4622. 
Singing-birds come back, 4875. 
Sinking and sinking, 3589. 
Sinned against, more, than sinning, 

4608. 
Sinners feel, 4613. 
Sinniner, more sinned against than, 

4608. 
Sins, they are inclined to, 4010. 

they love to act, 5473. 
Sire, her uncompassionate, 940. 

to son, 1799. 
Sires, mankind reveres your, 4136. 

of their great, 633. 
Six days of toil, 4393. 
Skies, circle bounding earth and, 1229 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



741 



Skies, pointing at the, 3317. 

warrior of the, 4909. 

watchtower in the, 2602. 
Skill, want of, 5S8S. 
Skin not colored like his own, 4662. 
Skulls the ocean pave, 2011. 
Sky. a meteor in the polar, 2953. 

eternal as the, 5772. 

gives us free scope, 2399. 

is blue above, 5414. 

is overcast, 5174. 

pale through the expanse of, 3333. 

rain holds the, 4125. 

so cloudless, 4634. 

spreads like an ocean, 4896. 

the bright sun glorifies the, 314. 

under this starfess, 4340. 

violet fades in the, 4128. 

witchery of the soft blue, 4633. 
Skylark, O herald, 3532. 
Slain, to hide the, 5550. 
Slander, foulest whelp of sin, 4655. 

lives on succession, 4638. 

malicious, 4647. 

sharper than the sword, 4641. 

transports his poisoned shot, 
4643. 

viperous, enters, 4641. 
Slander's mark is the fair, 4645. 

venomed spear, 4639. 
Slanders afford mirth, 4651. 

I'll devise some honest, 4636. 
Slave, a, for evermore, 792. 

a, insults me, 4315. 

a lover is a, 2881. 

bondsmen of a, 4665. 

I would not have a, 4663. 

that pays, base is the, 4659. 

the, flings his burden down, 2005. 

this yellow, 3300. 

thou art a, 4657. 

wretch, coward, 867. 
Slavery, the, is less, 4543. 
Slaves, a crowd of shivering, 4666. 

all are, 5375. 

cannot breathe in England, 2672. 

mechanic, 4658. 

not to be his, 2536. 

throw away on, 4707. 
Sleep, a third of life is passed in, 1080. 

and death, 4679. 

and oblivion reign, 3516. 

do not forget me, 4696. 

dwell on thine eyes, 4675. 

fast locked in, 4669. 

from the fairest face, 4689. 

hath its own world, 4684. 

in, a king, 3949. 

is a comforter, 4677. 

is there aught in, 4680. 

he giveth his beloved, 4690. 

not, they, whom God needs, 4698. 

O gentle, 4673. 

O magic, 4683. 



Sleep, O peaceful, 4693. 

shuts up sorrow's eye, 4670. 

silent as night, 4692. 

six hours in, 2631. 

that knows not breaking, 4686. 

the flattering truth of, f289. 

the friend of woe, 4687. 

the knot of peace, 4668. 

the mystery of, 2356. 

the, that knows not breaking, 
1094. 

thou ape of death, 1047. 

thy golden, 3175. 

to give their readers, 4678. 

to the homeless, 4694. 

we are beholden to thee, 4697. 

when we give ourselves away to, 
1293. 

will bring thee dreams, 4695. 
Slight, her body was so, 5831. 
Slopes fringed with tender green, 

4882. 
Sloth, by their own fear or, 4318. 

views the towers of Fame, 4701. 
Sloven, a, an odious sight, 5797. 
Slow rises worth by poverty de- 
pressed, 824. 
Sluggard, the voice of the, 4702. 
Slumber is everywhere, 4699. 

seven hours to, 2632. 
Slumbers in pavilions, 5491. 

to their wintry, 5059. 

w r aked with strife, 4742. 
Smatterers are more brisk and pert, 
4706. 

prove more arrogant, 4705. 
Smile and nod, America knows 
nought of, 132. 

from partial beauty, 5819. 

nature's everlasting, 3455. 

one may, and be a villain, 4708. 

prodigal of summery shine, 4711. 

show their teeth in way of, 5457. 

that was childlike and bland, 4710. 

the tribute of a, 3922. 

there is no, 782. 

they who have nothing more to 
fear, may, 1195. 

upon his face, 5052. 
Smiles and tears, 5131. 

fair but faithless, 864. 

his emptiness betray, 4709. 

seldom he, 972. 

thy, we ever seek, 5304. 
Smith, the, a mighty man, 4712. 
Smoker, kisses for a, 4713. 
Smokers, a club of, 4714. 
Smooth runs the water, 1127. 
Snail, shrinks backward, 4715. 
Snails, her feet like, 1675. 
Snake, a wounded, 105. 

we have scotched the, 995. 
Snakes in my heart-blood warmed, 
947. 



742 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Sneer, teach the rest to, 1324. 
Snow, a cheer lor the, 4716. 

descends the, 4723. 

its large calm front of, 3372. 

the, arrives, 4719. 

the sky is dim with, 4718. 

the sky sheds, 3094. 

the smallest speck is seen on, 1404. 

winter's drizzled, 3644. 

with a diadem of, 3378. 

wrapped in clouds and, 1370. 
Snow-broth, man whose blood is, 4703. 
Snowdrop, the, comes on, 4724. 

droopeth by, 4880. 
Snows, stream down the, 4720. 
Snowstorm spreads its woof, 4717. 
Snuff, a dose of, 4725. 
So few the years we live, 5880. 
Soar not too high, 2279. 
Society, enthusiasm in good, 1396. 

from, we learn to live, 4769. 

is one polished horde, 4729. 

the first of joys, 4732. 

where none intrudes, 4771. 

which should create kindness, 
4731. 
Socrates, take my chance with, 526. 
Soda-water, hock and, 4734. 
Sofas, 'twas sin to sit on, 3017. 
Softness and sweet attractive grace, 

3120. 
Soil, defenders of our, 4750. 

error flourisheth in every, 1427. 

my dear, native, 4471. 
Solace, his only, 1783. 
Soldier, a mere, 4748. 

full of oaths, 4737. 

he is a, 4741. 

let no, fly, 5551. 

shall I ask the brave, 912. 

the broken, 4745. 

their founder was a, 2483. 

will you teach a, 870. 

you are a better, 4739. 

you find him like a, 4743. 
Soldier's life, 'tis the, 4742. 
Soldiers in arms, 4750. 

we all are, 5273. 
Soldiership, universal, 4746. 
Solitude feeds on many thoughts, 4779. 

he makes a, 4774. 

how passing sweet is, 4762. 

I love not, 4773. 

is populous, 4778. 

is quick with life, 4781. 

is sometimes society, 4753. 

man accustomed to, 4763. 

O sacred, 4290. 

praise the grace of, 4779. 

proves a grave, 4762. 

should teach us how to die, 4769. 

sweet retired, 4754. 

the nurse of woe, 4755 

the voice of, 4777. 



Solitude, this is not, 4766. 

where are the charms, 4764. 

who think it, to be alone, 4758. 

wholesome, 4756. 
Some are born great, 2013. 

hae meat that canna eat, 5623. 

have broke oaths by Providence, 
3576. 

heart did break, 4810. 

must watch, while some must 
weep, 2048. 

natural tears they dropped, 1475. 

will go astray, 5210. 
Somehow, somewhere, meet we must, 

3170. 
Something beyond, 4011. 

in me dangerous, 5223. 

is rotten in the State of Denmark, 
1171. 

still remains undone, 2586. 
Son, O gentle, 3738. 

wonderful, 624. 

of all creation, first-begotten, 4440. 
of heaven and earth, 3584. 
Song, a brotherhood in, 3914. 
for our banner, 1698. 
forbids deeds to die, 4628. 
grasp the sword of, 3901. 
he sings the, 3469. 

1 breathed a, into the air, 2418. 
one grand, sweet, 1975. 

our grace at table is a, 3892. 

short swaMow-fligbts of, 4626. 
' speaking so plainty in his, 3916. 

the burden of the, 4617. 

the burden of some, 4334. 

the gift of, 4627. 

the perfect, 5185. 

the shadow-world of, 4620. 

unsurpassed in modern, 5104. 
Songs are but sweet words, 4630. 

of high art, 4625. 

of sadness and mirth, 4624. 
Sonnets, he would have written, 

5745. 
Sons and brothers at strife, 784. 

emulation hath a thousand, 34. 

few attain the praise, 633. 

had I as many as I have hairs, 
1039. 

our wiser, 5905. 
Sophistry cleaves close, 4785. 

destroy his, 4473. 
Sor. rano, basso, and contra-alto, 3416. 
Sore, you rub the, 5358. 
Sorrow, adoption of another's, 5139. 

a garden-bed, 4814. 

a golden, 789. 

a mind o'ercharged with, 3176. 

and silence are strong, 3743. 

breaks seasons and hours, 4788. 

cannot reach here, 1316. 

cast off last night, 3494. 

comes too soon, 4798. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



743 



Sorrow doth burn the heart to cinders, 
47 89. 

drives the dull, 5656. 

fail not for, '274:?. 

free from, as from sin, 5786. 

give, words, 47S6. 

how easy is joy after, 2491. 

is cheered, 5082. 

is in vain, 1795. 

is knowledge, 2575. 

it seldom visits, 4677. 

like a heavy -hanging bell, 2045. 

one, never comes, 4790. 

preys on its solitude, 4799. 

regions of, 2142. 

tell me what is, 4812. 

the heart must bear, 4815. 

the offender's, 2437. 

the path of, 4797. 
Sorrow's crown of sorrow, 4811. 

memory is sorrow still, 3191. 
Sorrows come not single spies, 4793. 

fall so fast, 5880. 

our least of, 4800. 

tell all thy, 745. 

worn and beset with, 3451. 
Sort, a lazy, lolling, 2341. 
Soul, a dark, and foul thoughts, 756. 

a part of me and my, 4768. 

a, stands least, 4819. 

dress and undress thy, 44. 

every, standeth single, 1179. 

heaven is in thy, 5834. 

his surety, he that makes his, 3577. 

I built my, a house, 3845. 

is immortal, 4824. 

is pressed with cares, 3407. 

lay not that unction to, 1128. 

looks down, 4756. 

may his pernicious, rot, 948. 

multiplies its joy or pain, 4822. 

my, I give, 1923. 

mysterious cement of the, 1849. 

nought but God can satisfy the, 
791. 

of goodness in things evil, 1446. 

of heaven and earth, 1160. 

of music slumbers, 1670. 

oh, noble, 3542. 

perdition catch my, 72. 

secure in her existence, 4821. 

shakes off its load of care, 1666. 

she's so conjunctive to my, 2850. 

that canst soar, 4828. 

the flow of, 4153. 

the hour that tears my, from thee, 
74. 

the saddest thing that can befall a, 
1275. 

the secret, 5380. 

the secret of thy, 588. 

the sleepless, that perished, 614. 

the strength of the, 5525. 

the whiteness of his, 4827. 



Soul, thy, is wedded unto mine, 2548. 

to see the human, take wing, 1087. 

to the expanded and aspiring, 131. 

was tost, on passion's tide, 3727. 

welcome to my, 3835. 

what can it do to that, 1657. 

whither went his, 4820. 

why shrinks the, 2385. 

with all my, 3722. 

with every sect agreed, 4502. 
Soul's, the, best friends, 4825. 

the, prerogative, 4822. 
Souls a few, beside your own, 4413. 

ever go up or go down, 567. 

full, are double mirrors, 599. 

great, to each other turn, 1843. 

in heaven are placed by their 
deeds, 2137. 

in pain, 2738. 

noble, through dust and heat, 3538. 

of poets dead and gone, 5110. 

strong live like suns, 598. 

that might have led, 4665. 

the thoughts, 5879. 

we loved, to see, 1876. 

with but a single thought, 5432. 
Sound, a, which could not die, 5772. 

however rude the, 5469. 

persuasive, 3405. 

sweet is every, 4829. 
Sounds, a sympathy with, 3414. 
Sour in digestion, 5065. 
South, sweet wind of the, 5653. 
Sovereign of sighs and groans, 943. 
Sovereigns err like private men, 2539. 
Space, dread immensity of, 4893. 
Spain, have won her right for, 4830. 

lovely, 4831. 
Spaniel, you play the, 1653. 
Spare the rod, spoil the child, 4092. 
Sparrow, a, cries, 828. 

in the fall of a, 4066. 
Sparrow's note, I thought the, 3469. 
Speak less than thou knowest, 742. 
Speakers, your dainty, 3667. 
Spectacles ought to belong, 4832. 
Spectre can the charnel send, 1858. 
Spectres, apparitions, ghosts, 1914. 
Speculation in those eyes, 1908. 

shines, 2642. 
Speech, full of grace, 613. 

in man, 4594. 

is broken light, 4839. 

is reason's brother, 4841. 

is the golden harvest, 4840. 

was a fine sample, 3671. 

wed with thought, 5217. 
Speeches, forbear sharp, 4172. 
Speed, be wise with, 5685. 
Spell, by teaching, learned to, 1356. 
Spendthrift of money and of wit, 4846. 
Spendthrifts at home, 4845. 
Spenser, fancy's son, 4847. 
| Sphere, is there a fairer, 1874. 



744 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Sphere, motion in one, 4890. 

of wisdom. 

to a man or woman, 484S. 
Spheres, twinkle in their, 1498. 
Spicier, the smallest thread that ever, 

twisted, 1184. 
Spider's most attenuated thread, 421. 

touch, how exquisitely fine, 2447. 
Spire to rise, who taught the, 4850. 
Spires, whose finger points to heaven, 
4852. 

ye distant, 163. 
Spirit, a, pure as hers, 4095. 

divine, 4856. 

fair, for my minister, 2958. 

her gentle,' 5726. 

humhle means match not his, 1223. 

I'll send thy, 5227. 

of a child, 640. 

of wine, 4856. 

rural sounds exhilarate the, 4378. 

scorned his, 1236. 

the, seizes the occasion, 1142. 

so foul a, 888. 

shrunk not to sustain, 4981. 

the, speaking truth, 3997. 
Spirit-land, that enchanted, 1825. 
Spirits, can either sex assume, 1913. 

dauntless, 201. 

from the vasty deep, 4854. 

nothing gives a man such, 5328. 

of peace. 4855. 

the, of the blest, 4900. 

wanton, look out, 1491. 
Spite and envy, poisonous, 1819. 
Spleen is seldom felt, 4858. 
Splendor in the beam, 4873. 

of the whole, 4772. 

the sun's revolving, 4999. 

their trails of, 4220. 
Sponge, things wiped out with a, 234. 
Sport, play not for gain, but, 1880. 
Sports of children satisfy the child, 
635. 

which only childhood could 
excuse, 988. 
Spots, such black and grained, 4247. 
Spouse, to take my, 5629. 
Spring, alas, bright, 4877. 

apparelled like the, 1990. 

come, gentle, 4867. 

nanus her blossoms, 4871. 

in, Thy beauty walks, 4491. 

is strong and virtuous, 4872. 

neglect the cowslip, 4489. 

one unbounded, 4259. 

shall her dowry bring, 3164. 

showery, flowery, bowery, 4493. 

splendid raiment of the, 4888. 

that warms them, 4276. 

the wood-nymph wild, 4352. 

unlocks the flowers, 4492. 

welcome to beautiful, 4886. 

whence come the progeny of, 1724. 



| Spring-time, in the prime of, 4878. 

the breath of, 4876. 
Springe, she set.- a, 812. 
Spur to prick us to redress, 4180. 
Squibs and cracker-. 
Squirrel with raised paws, 5344. 
Staff, I'm growing fonder of my, 3647, 
Stage, a sprightlier age shoves you 
from the, 95. 

all the world's a, 

for this the tragic muse first trod 
the, 40. 

for tragedies and murders, 3505. 

he would drown the. with tears, 
37. 

the, I chose, 48S9. 

when the, they tread, 4842. 

where every man must play, 5863. 
Stake, they have tied me to a. 1180. 
Stalks, bending toward him her, 5005. 
Stand not on the order of your going, 
1977. 

there, damned villain, 5227. 
Stanza, who pens a, 3884. 
Star, a bright particular, 1186. 

a, looks forth alone, 4908. 

a most auspicious, 3659. 

as far as a, 4600. 

constant as the northern, 773. 

every fixed, 218. 

in bigness as a, 5870. 

moves not but in his sphere, 285* 

of peace, the, 1701. 

of the Pole, 4907. 

of the unconquered will, 5632. 

one, another far exceeds, 2137. 

the twinkling of a, 1274. 
Stars, afar beyond the, 3776. 

and flowers and leaves, 3206. 

and women, 3527. 

are forth, 3528. 

are images of love, 4902. 

are mansions built by nature, 4900- 

are of mighty use, 4913. 

are veiled in light, 3336. 

blossomed the lovely, 4905. 

centre of many, 4996. 

came out, one after one, 5408. 

come forth to listen, 4903. 

cut him out in little, 2839. 

hang bright above, 4899. 

hear it not, ye, 217. 

hide their diminished heads, 2024- 

in earth's firmament, 1727. 

keep not their motion, 4890. 

of the night, 4892. 

shine in their watches, 4914. 

shine through cypress trees, 1197- 

shot from their spheres, 3228. 

that lead the host, 3514. 

that round her burn, 3322. 

that shoot along the sky, 1088. 

the brightness of her cheek would 
shame, 319. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



745 



Stars, the cold light of, 4904. 

the, help me, 4622. 

the fairest in all heaven, 1498. 

the fault is not in our, 113. 

the poetry of heaven, 4898. 

thick as dewdrops, 4901. 

tremble above, 4906. 

who can count the, 4894. 

who can fear too many, 3009. 
State, a pillar of, 1219. 

broken with the storms of, 92. 

expectancy and rose of the, 3024. 

falling, with a falling, 2025. 

happy, thrice happy, 3144. 

how to know the best, 5754. 

I have done the, some service, 
169. 

no interest of, 3927. 

O ship of, 3762. 

outcast of church and, 3680. 

the pinnacles of, 4916. 
Station, give me a private, 2225. 

\vhat is, 4922. 

what is high, 2027. 
Statesman to a prince, 4917. 

vet friend to truth, 3751. 
Statesmen, village, talked, 3929. 
Statue on the pedestal of scorn, 4466. 
Statues, like dumb, 108. 
Steal from a cut loaf, 5196. 

us from ourselves away, 5894. 
Stealth, invisible and subtile, 2799. 

do good by, 608. 
Steel, our coats of, 5557. 
Steeples, a wilderness of, 2770. 

and moss-arown towers, 1336. 
Steps, her rosy, 3343. 
Stillness so like death, 4924. 
Stir the fire, and close the shutters 

fast, 1440. 
Stoics boast their virtue, 3816. 
Stones, he who steps on, 5084. 
Stomachs, our, will make what's 

homely, savory, 175. 
Stone, a circle makes, J4S0. 

rests on stone, 589. 

that is rolling, 573. 
Stop not, unthinking, 495. 
Storied windows richly dight, 5654. 
Stories oftentimes begun, 2775. 
Storm, directs the, 51S3. 

leave thee in the, 5271. 

on its heavy wings, 5648. 

the coming, 5172. 

the waters swell before a, 8280. 

this surely bodes a, 5177. 

what signs portend the, 4479. 
Storm-cloud lurid with lightning, 5229. 
Storms enliven its green, 610. 

terrible as, 2519. 

wrecks of unresisted, 4882. 
Strand, wandering on a foreign, 2179. 
Strange they should be so unlike, 5774. 

'twas passing, 4940. 



Strangers, by, honored, and by stran- 
gers mourned, 1062. 
Stratagems, what. 4160. 
Strawberry underneath the nettle, 

4941. 
Stream, a, came tumbling from the 
height, 4337. 

and ocean greet, 5579. 

drink the clear, 5160. 

freshness in the, 4873. 

from Wisdom's well, -"'689. 

its mighty mystic. 4342. 

the living, 1671. 

the pretty, flattered, 490. 

tumbling down the turbid, 4513. 
Streams, gilding pale, 3340. 

our plenteous, 155. 

pursue the track, 4943. 

shallow, run dimpling, 2351. 
Streets, swarm in the, 3287. 
Strength, excellent to have a aiant'i, 
3211. 

he deigns impart, 1330. 

it proves our, 1254. 

my, wears away, 4515. 

to have a giant's, 4944. 

without wisdom, 4946. 
Stride, the dark comes at one, 1000. 
Strife gives satire vigor, 4431. 

no day discolored with, 3136. 

strong in its. 2422. 

the feverish, 5660. 

in this world of, 3362. 
Strike for your altars, 3754. 
Strive to do better than well, 887. 
Striving to better, 4950. 
Strong natures give the weaker rest, 
2031. 

without rage, 5187. 
Studies, made me neglect my, 2782. 
Study is like the sun, 4951. 

is the trifling of the mind, 4957. 

learning must be won by, 1349. 

what is youi, 5098. 

what you most affect, 4954. 

with no little, 5117. 
Stuff, so flat and dull, 843. 

what woeful, 3882. 
Style, a proper, 4960. 

the, is excellent, 2597. 

they may admire a, 5844. 
Subjects and loyal friends, 2522. 

they became my, 2537. 
Subjects' eyes do learn, 4034. 
Substance, there lies the, 2043. 
Success can always hit, 1617. 

is from above, 1622. 

life lives only in, 4965. 

that one thing is, 4966. 

will not attend on all, 4968. 
Succor and redress, the means of. 

3660. 
Such a noise arose, 180. 
Suffer and be strong, 858 



746 



INDEX TO QUOTAT:ox<g. 



■Suffer, the hope of all who, 2509. 

they who stay behind, 371)7. 
Sufferance, the badge of our tribe, 

2484. 
Sufferers, promise dying, aid, 4102. 
Suffering, child of, 4390. 

stern, a tide of, 4768. 

they learn in, 3962. 
Sufferings, fatal and fated in thy, 2153. 

light, 4796. 

to each his, 4818. 
Suicide, time destroyed is, 5256. 
Summer, bright, 226. 

from her golden collar slips, 264. 

grows adult, 4490. 

is gone on swallows' wings, 266. 

stands pale in her fading bowers, 
256. 

sweet as, 578. 

the, of All-Saints, 263. 
Summer-day, O beautiful awful, 1633. 
Summer's ripening breath, 2841. 

songs are hushed, 5407. 
Summons, we wait the, 4978. 
Sun, a setting, 1811. 

bright as the, 816. 

child of the, 4985. 

close to the, 1333. 

follower of the, 4998. 

gathered his robes, 5028. 

gone is the, 5412. 

has turned his face away, 5676. 

hath made a golden set, 5024. 

head turned by the, 5012. 

hold their taper to the, 718. 

is a most glorious sight, 5017. 

is going down, 5043. 

is in the heavens, 3349. 

my shadow in the, 3768. 

now sunk the, 3518. 

one more, strung on my days, 
1015. 

our, declines, 5694. 

pavilions of the, 1938. 

sent up his last smile, 5169. 

the all-cheering, 1004. 

the bright-haired, 5034. 

the descending, 5041. 

the, doth shake light, 668. 

the, gilds all objects, 1492. 

the glorious, 3338. 

the, has drunk the dew, 81. 

the, has lost his rage, 1435. 

the, has tired the sight, 3324. 

the, is coming, 227. 

the, is set, 1444. 

the, ne'er saw her match, 3800. 

the potent, 3348. 

the rising and setting of the, 
3620. 

the stooping, 5040. 

the, was set, 3519. 

till the, grows cold, 2887. 

why shines the, 3179. 



Sunbermi, a, warmed ti^ee iuio bloork, 
43S&. 

Sunbeams melt along the sea, 1443. 
Sunday, make a beast of himself on, 
4382. 

shines on Sabbath-day, 4386. 

take, through the week, 4394. 
Sunflower, light enchanted, 4999. 

shining fair, 5008. 

space for the, 5009. 

the, turns on her god, 777. 

weary of time, 5002. 
Sunflowers blow in a glow, 5006. 

by the sides of brooks, 5001. 
Sunlight in their smile, 5830. 
Suns, milky way chalkt with, 491& 

the process of the, 5215. 
Sunset, a day unsealed with, 5029 

dipped in the hues of, 5026. 

the wondrous golden, 5036. 
Sunshine and rain at once, 5131. 

broken in the rill, 4095. 

follows the rain, 790. 

on my path, 5046. 

or shade, 4279. 

see the gold, 5044. 

shall fohow the rain, 726. 

the fijul's calm, 5512. 

wili not end in showers, 581'. 
Superst'tion taught the tyrant awe, 

5049. 
Superstitions and traditions, 1198. 
Surfeit is the father of fast, 4421. 
Surges, 1 saw him beat the, 4573. 
Surmises, condemned upon, 2504. 
Surprise, month that testified, 5439. 
Suspense from pleasure and pain, 

5057. 
Suspicion always haunts the guilty 
mind, 750. 

hath a ready tongue, 5058. 

sleeps at Wisdom's gate, 2323. 
Swallows darting through rains, 4481. 
Swan, I have seen a, 25S4. 

of Avon, 4355. 

the stately-sailing. 5061. 

think thy, a crow, 3799. 

with arched neck, 5660. 
Swear, Quakers will not, 4103. 
Sweet and fair she seems to be, 4355. 

must be the lips, 5068. 

was the sound, 1439. 
Sweetness, to loathe the taste of, 4422. 
Sw r eets, a wilderness of, 833. 

to the sweet, 5067. 

turn to sours, 3948. 
Swimmer's, a, stroke, 5071. 
Sword, a conqueror's, 5512. 

a flesh-hook rather than a, 1943. 

a human, 4748. 

graced with a, 901. 

I will open with, 5862. 

put up thv, 1156. 

the, it fights with, 54^- 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



'4 7 



Swords-, an iron barrier are, 5582. 

draw their, 4167. 
Swore, as lie knew not what to say, 

lie, 3580. 
Syllables alone require, 3231. 

are swords. 5842. 
Sympathy, the twins of, 5080. 

there's nought like, 5076. 
Symphonies, playing celestial. 5640. 
Synods and bear-gardens, 5086. 

whelps of theinquisition, 508'. 



Take all that is given, 5679. 

any shape but that, 842. 

heed lest you burn yourselves, 
3723. 

her up tenderly. 3836. 

what he gives, 4257. 
Tale, a round unvarnished, 873. 

an honest, speeds best, 5090. 

the whispered, 4650. 

this act is a, new-told, 5089. 

told by an idiot, 2694. 
Talent of our English nation, 4184. 

should minister to genius, 1895. 

to abuse, 4i26. 
Talents, angel-bright, 5092. 
Tales, ears play truant at his, 1360. 

moral of all human, 2159. 

the, that were so dear, 4937. 

weavers of long, 4938. 
Talk not of comfort, 1191. 

they, who never think, 5100. 
Talkers are no good doers, 5097. 
Talking, I profess not, 2. 

is not to converse, 5102. 
Taper, bards burn the, 1582. 
Tapers clear without number, 4892. 
Tar, the gallant English, 4401. 
Tartar, a wild, 1408. 
Task, a heavier, 2040. 

me to my word, 1702. 

no happier, 8. 

the, he undertakes, 2583. 

the, of humankind, 3492. 

thou pausest not in thy, 4340. 
Tasso, their glory and their shame, 

5103. 
Taste, better be born with, 5108. 

blunt or gross or fine, 5108. 

good native, 5107. 

have a, 5106. 

talk what you will of, 5105. 

sweet to, sour in digestion, 1227. 
Taxes, rails at, 5114. 

rise or fall, 5115. 
Tea and coffee leave us much more 
serious, 1315. 

fate in grounds of, 5050. 

spill her solitary, 4376. 

the fair relies on, 5116. 
Teach the youth of nations, 1355. 

thy necessity to reason, 3473. 



Teacher, the, and the taughi are 

young, 1350. 
Teachers, men honor, 5118. 
Teaching and my authority, 5117. 
Tear, a, for all that die, 5489. 

a single, 611. 

all I ask is a, 5150. 

deeper by a, 5136. 

down childhood's cheek, 5140. 

drying up a single, 1581. 

he gave to misery all he had,a,1418 

her tattered ensign down, 1699. 

I did not think to shed a, 5128. 

I found a, within the rose, 1216. 

I wished but for a single, 514S. 

in beauty's eye, 5142. 

no thing that claims a, 3716. 

of a true and tender heart, 5147= 

one particular, 5134. 

shed for others' pain, 5143. 

so bright the, 291. 

the homage of a, 5145. 

the test of affection's a, 5149. 

the unanswerable, 5144. 

which pious fathers shed, 1643. 
Tears, a house of, 5133. 

a lady's, 5123. 

and tenderness, 1774. 

are no reproach, 5138. 

beauty's, are lovelier, 5155. 

charged with unshed, 2061. 

fell down my cheeks, 1827. 

for babes, 5125. 

for the beautiful dead, 4802. 

from some divine despair, 5153. 

gainsay what I should say, 5126. 

save me up to, 5124. 

hide not thy, 5139. 

hide thy, 5i47. 

his language in his, 5129. 

I did not shed, 5629. 

idle tears, 5153. 

more merry, 3257. 

my, must stop, 5152. 

not shocked at, 5146. 

of bearded men, 5141. 

our present, 5135. 

return with, 4159. 

softness of beauty in, 5154. 

stood on her cheek, 5132. 

such as angels weep. 4137. 

the big round, 5119. 

the busy have no time for, 4799. 

thine eyes have drawn, 5127. 

this day hath made work for, 292. 

thoughts too deep for, 5151. 

wash out shame, 5478. 

wet my cheeks with artificial, 2306. 

why are those, 5627. 
Tedious, he's as, as a tired horse, 464. 
Tell him I love him yet, 775. 
Temper, a hot, leaps o'er a decree, 
2450. 

blest with, 5159. 



748 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Temperance, dictate of spare, 5161. 

in a pet of, 5160. 

the rule taught by, 5162. 
Temperate in every place, 5163. 
Tempest, a commanding, 5174. 

foretells a, 5165. 

in my mind, 2044. 

in that silence we fear, 5170. 

sweeps through space, 2300. 

the black- winged legions of, 
5168. 
Tempests, I have seen, 5166. 
Temple, my favored is an humble 
heart, 2281. 

never made with hands, 4198. 

there's nothing ill can dwell in 
such a, 313. 
Temples ascend the skies, 4851. 
Temptation, capacity for joy admits, 
2490. 

may yield to, 5183. 

not proof against, 821. 
Temptations, strong, try, 4291. 
Ten words creep in one line, 3231. 
Tenderness, disguise even, 885. 

with what, he loves, 2900. 
Tenement, life is a frail, 2754. 
Tents, guidons, bannerols, 5583. 
Tenor's voice spoiled, 4618. 
Terrors of the living, not the dead, 
1068. 

this king of, is the prince of peace, 
1072. 
Text inspires not them, 4501. 
Thames, the vale of, 5404. 

unbounded, 5188. 
Thames' translucent wave, 5403. 
Thanks is honorable meed, 5191. 

service repaid with, 5189. 

to the gods, 631. 

evermore, 5190. 
That strain again, 3395. 

we would do, we should do when 
we would, 1167. 
That's best which God sends, 4084. 
Theatre, this wide, 5S67. 
Theirs but to do and die, 5558. 
There are shades which will not van- 
ish, 763. 

is no living with thee, 595. 

is no one above thee, 3007. 

lives more faith in honest doubt, 
1283. 
There's a divinity that shapes our 
ends, 1615. 

no such reason, 4867. 
Thereby hangs a tale, 2692. 
They always talk who never think, 
5100. 

laugh that win, 2606. 

praise and they admire, 1258. 

that stand high have blasts, 994. 

who forgive shall be forgiven, 
1756. 



They who have nothing more te fear, 
1195. 

"They come, they come," 303. 
Thief, every man's apparel tits a, 5195. 

looks like the rest, 5197. 

steals something from the, 2051. 

the, doth fear each bush an officer, 
750. 

the moon's a, 5194. 
Thieves, a den of, 670. 

and robbers range abroad, 3503. 

at home must hang, 825. 
Thing, beloved contented. 5514. 

he never says a foolish, 2533. 

sweetest, in life, 5748. 

too much of a good, 5055. 
Things, a surfeit of the sweetest, 1464. 

after their fashion, 2614. 

all other, give place, 2592. 

all, show it, 2703. 

all, sleep, 3606. 

all, were held in common, 2277. 

are neither rich nor rare, 5056. 

are not what they seem. 2736. 

are where things are, 1638. 

at the worst will cease, 915. 

by season seasoned are, 1487. 

do noble, 3542. 

done well, exempt themselves 
from fear, 541. 

done without example, 541. 

ill-got had ever bad success, 4963. 

make vile, precious, 3471. 

mind can bear all, 3253. 

neither rich nor rare, 109. 

remembering happier, 4811. 

sweet to taste prove sour, 1227. 

they are portentous, 4042. 

vainest of all, 1997. 

won are done, 3947. 
Think, those who, govern, 1986. 
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, 921. 
Thirty days hath September, 3315. 
This is to be alone, 4767. 
Thistles wear the softest down, 2561. 
Thorns and briars in his road, 4797. 

which I have reaped, 4275. 
Those that fly may light again, 296. 

who in quarrels interpose, 1693. 

who know thee, 593. 

who scribble, those who play, 
4889. 

who think govern those who toil. 
3252. 

whom God has designed, 1621. 

win the day that win the race 
5569. 
Thou ait, O God, 1952. 

art too wild, too rude, 2774. 

canst not say I did it, 1909. 

hast betrayed me, 2326. 

hast no speculation, 4833. 

movest in thy silver veil, 3323. 

wear a lion's hide, 896. 



INDEX TO U I T Tu 1 77 ONS. 



749 



Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not 

know, 746. 
though deep yet clear, 51S7. 

1 am not splenetive and rash, 
992. 
Thought alone is eternal, 5206. 

and her brood, 3196. 

brain is destroyed b}', 482. 

evil is wrought by want of, 1452. 

guard well Thy, 5204. 

interpreter of human, 5309. 

is the measure of life, 5209. 

lines of, 4801. 

make the, start into action, 1142. 

many a, lies hid in smiles, 174. 

precedes will to think, 4149. 

pride proceeds from want of, 4030. 

sinking from, to thought, 3891. 

the flowering of, 4840. 

the topmost froth of, 5847. 

the value of a, 5214. 

to have common, 4110. 

wed with thought, 5217. 

what is thy, 3254. 

which stirred, 5216. 

wish is father to, 5691. 
Thoughts, all sreat, 5212. 

and deeds,~832. 

are heard in heaven, 5204. 

are my companions, 4782. 

chasing all unholy, 4380. 

fine, are wealth, 5211. 

give Him thy first, 3999. 

give thy, no tongue, 59. 

glittering, 5709. 

like a rush of wings, 5207. 

like flowers drift away, 1535. 

my, remain below, 3985. 

of men accursed, 1235. 

of men are widened, 4044. 

our, are linked, 3197. 

our, are ours, 5203. 

sadness is the ground of, 5212. 

shut up want air, 5205. 

that breathe, 5208. 

that engine of her, 5306. 

the river of his, 2960. 

they leave a weight upon our, 
1292. 

thou canst not banish, 763. 

'tis not my talent to conceal my, 
1131. 

too deep for tears, 1729. 

weigh his inmost, 4240. 

when our, are born, 5210. 

which he hath known, 4780. 
Thousand hearts beat happily, 981. 

miles from land, 4936. 

spirits in thy breast, 1153. 

ways, there are a, 609. 
Thousands want what you enjoy, 

1405. 
Thread, braved with a skein of, 5088. 

feels at each, 4849. 



Thread, pluck one, and the web ye 

mar, 1200. 
Threaten the threatener, 4262. 
Threatens, it, while it shines, 4063. 
Thrice is he armed, 751. 
Throats, harness on their, 1304. 
Throne, approach his, 3846. 

here is my, 47S7. 
Thrones, time shakes, 5258. 
Throng, the lowest of your, 2565. 
Through thick and thin, 1686. 
Thunder from a cloud, 5225. 

in the stores of heaven, 5337. 

leaps the live, 5176. 

lightning or rain, 3166. 
Thyself that now I aim at, 878. 
Tide, each swelling, 5188. 

like to an entered, 34. 

there is a, in the affairs of men, 
1136. 
Tiger, imitate the, 5548. 

the Hyrcanian, 842. 
Tigers have courage, 3221. 
Tigress, a, robbed of young, 5804, 
Time, a dreadful interval of, 771. 

all things decay with, 4365. 

and fortune lie heavy, 2613. 

and the hour, 5234. 

and tide roll on, 2725. 

as this, in such a, 3633. 

brings in his revenges, 5232. 

conquers all, 5248. 

daughters of, 5245. 

delves parallels, 5241. 

destroyed is suicide, 5256. 

doth waste me, 5235. 

dreary is the, 3557. 

haltless hurries, 5247. 

has laid his hand on my heart, 3652. 

has touched it in his flight, 2081. 

hath a wallet at his back, 2426. 

hath not yet so dried this blood 
of mine, 83. 

I shall have done with thee, 5268. 

I wasted, 5235. 

is eternity, 5253. 

is fleeting, 5249. 

is like a fashionable host, 5233. 

is 6till a-flying, 5244. 

is their grave, 5238. 

make use of, 5239. 

mock the, with fairest show, 1269. 

never chide the wing of, 5270. 

noiseless falls the foot of, 5260. 

out upon, 5267. 

place, and action, 1893. 

rides with the eld, 5250. 

rolls its ceaseless course, 5262. 

shakes thrones, 5258. 

shall lead him to his end, 1967. 

shall not see the hour, 71. 

shall unfold what cunning hidea 
2318. 

silent as the foot of, 5255. 






INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Time, sole philosopher, 5265. 

spent, we wish revoked, 2726. 

storms of wintry, 4259. 

strips our illusions, 2724. 

suppresseth wrongs, 543S. 

tears and laughters for all, 4562. 

that makes you homely. 

that old common arbitrator, 5237. 

the beautirier of the dead, 5265. 

the dial-plate of. 

the fulness of, has come, 1806. 

the inaudible foot of, 1261. 

the king of men, 5238. 

the storm of, 2730. 

the waste of, 5231. 

the whips and scorns of, 4974. 

threefold the stride of, 5246. 

'tis almost fairy, 3233. 

up the stream of, 3198. 

used is life, 5254. 

wasted is existence, 5254. 

we take no note of, 5251. 

when toil must be preferred, 5291. 

who changes all. 

why dost not pause, 5264. 

with everlasting chain. 5247. 

with solemn tread, 3640. 

working in these walls of, 1634. 

writes no wrinkle. ' - 
Time's a public good, 5269. 

furrows on another's brow, 97. 

glory is to calm, 5243. 

of monstrous use, 5269. 
Times are altered. 5312. 

are changed, 3892. 

make former shake hands with 
latter, 12S7. 

the, have been, 4S1. 

to dignify the, 54 

you should have feared false, 4007. 
'Tis'better to be lowly born 

better to have loved and lost, 2925. 

more brave to live than xo die, 483. 

not enough to help the feeble, 602. 

the wise man's interest to be seen, 
552. 

wise to learn; 'tis godlike to 
create 252 

wise to talk with our past hours, 
14S7. 
Title, the fool that wears a, 5274. 
Titles, an honor to his, 5276, 

and estates. 5682. 

are jests, 5273. 

are marks of honest men, 5274. 

of honor, 5276. 

the courtier's reward, 5275. 
To be strong is to be happy, 4947. 

die ! to sleep, perchance to dream, 
1030. 

err is human, 1765. 

say you are welcome, 5616. 

thine own self be true, 466. 
Toad. I had rather be a, 2853. 



Tobacco, an outlandish weed, 5280. 

burns the head, - 

chimney-sweepers to their, 2 
To-dav abhorred, to-morrow adored, 

I should love the. 

is ours, 528 

let us live, 

O thou ster: 

our cares are all. 

what dost thou bring, 52 
To-morrow, and to-morrow. _ _. 

cheerful as to-day 

come-. - 

feel the fresh breathing of, 3500. 

is a satire on to-day, " 

serene and lovely. 

the rainbow's cup. _ 

the " recker's beacon, 

where art thou, beloved. 

where is, 53 _. 
To-morrow's sun may never ria 
To-morrows, through all the sad, 1836. 
Toe, on the light fantastic, 3264. 
Toil and be strong, 5287. 

and trouble, unapt to, 5762. 

sons of rustic, 4471. 

those who think eovern those 
who. 

you hate fatigues you. - 
Toil's reward sweetens industry, 733. 
Tokens of its unity. 5381. 
Tomb of honored bones. __ . 
Tombs of her own perished race, 5357. 

vanished like their dead. 4347. 
Tone, breathing in its softest, 47S3. 

he would not with a peremptory, 
12S2. 
Tongue, bastinado with his, 5095. 

his, did make offence, 1500. 

his, dropt manna, 1130. 

murder though it have no, 3389. 

my, I rein, 5101. 

my, is still and mute, 5751. 

schooled in a strange, 1350. 

Mill his, ran on, 5099. 

the man that hath a. ?71. 

the slanderous, 519. 

to curse the slave, 5340. 

wagging of your, 1653. 

what mv, dares not, 5073. 
Tongues, an host of, 3481. 

of dving men enforce attention, 
1043. 
Tools of sharp edges. 495S. 
Tooth is not so keen, 2424. 

sharper than a serpent's, 2430. 
Toothache, could endure the, 5310. 
Torches, as we with, 5500. 
Tories call me Whig, and "Whig a 

Tory. 1933. 
Torquato's injured shade, 5104. 
Torrent, we fly from the wordy, 510J- 
Torrents, unbroken floods and, 5171 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIOXS. 



751 



Touch could soften steel, 3390. 

of nature makes the world kin, 
3436. 
Tower, above the ruined, 5542. 

stood like a, 2023. 
Towers, a chain of mouldering, 541G. 

like two cathedral, 3450. 

ye antique, 163. 
Town, fifty roads to, 4207. 

the clock of the. 3241. 

the, divided, 5311. 
Toy, from, to toy, from vanity to 

vice, 2707. 
Toys, cast their, away, 272S. 

it babies us with endless, 4332. 
Trade, a cloak to carry on the, 1963. 

deems the day begun, 3488. 

sons of song descend to, 3920. 
Trades, all other, demand, 3911. 

pestilence strike all, 954. 
Traitor, a graceless, 3106. 

and miscreant, 5331. 

blast the, 5317. 
Traitors, men's vows are women's, 
2S32. 

our doubts are, 1281. 
Translated, thou art, 5318. 
Translations, in wrong, 4118. 
Travel, at the great end of, 5328. 

is a fount of education, 5324. 
Traveller, the vigor of the, 4953. 
Travellers long for Indian skies, 5652. 

must be content, 5321. 

on swift steeds, 5250. 
Treason and murder, 5334. 

can but peep, 2530. 

doth never prosper, 5330. 

is but trusted, 5332. 

is not owned, 5336. 

like a deadly blight, 5340. 

mutterers of, 5339. 

on the paths of, 5338. 
Treasons, tyranny is the worst of, 

5428. 
Tree, dark, still sad, 973. 

he that climbs the tall, 999. 

it is the poison, 4229. 

like a lovely, 884. 

of the gloom, 5633. 

the royal, 623. 
Trees can smile in light, 5341. 

cut to statues, 1886. 

finds tongues in, 49. 

O odious, 1678. 

the full-blossomed, 1338. 

the, have torches lit, 2391. 

the lives of, 4959. 

the sap which is bred in, 134. 

these fair ranks of, 5342. 

under the, 1758. 

were gazing into the sky, 5348. 
Trencher-man, a very valiant, 1941. 
Tresses glittering 6howered gold, 



Tresses, unconfined, 2932. 
Trial, we learn through, 5349. 

Tribe, sufferance the badge of our, 

24>>-L 
Tribes, our supple, 820. 
Tricks that are vain, 910. 
Trifle, think nought a, 5355. 
Trifler, the solemn, 5351. 
Trifles, a snapper-up of, 71"). 

are elegant in him, 5354. 

light as" air, 2403. 

not to know is a praise, 010. 

such as these are, 1917. 

to observe these. 5353. 
Triumph weeps above the brave. 54S9„ 
Triumphs for nothing. 5352. 
Tropic, sunned in the, 5820. 
Troubles too great to smother, 50S2. 
Trowel, laid on with a, 2311. 
Troy had been bright with fame, 1177. 

her foes withstood, 5357. 
Truce, base, 5545. 
True as it is strange, 5359, 
Trumpet, wind doth play the, 51G5. 
Trust, he deserves small, v 4409. 

no future, 1>7S. 

the returns of, 43S8. 

thee, so far will I, 746. 
Trusted, who should be, 5431. 
Truth and loyalty, 1681. 

comes uppermost, 5390. 

cowards who lack courage to tell. 
903. 

crushed to earth shall rise, 5362. 

cut short, 5470. 

delights to dwell, 5305. 

denies eloquence to woe, 5380. 

disclaiming both, 803. 

forever on the scaffold, 5393. 

guards the poet, 3888. 

has but one way to be right, 808. 

has such a face, 5367. 

hath better deeds, 3699. 

is a narrow lane, 5396. 

is alwavs strange, 5377. 

is eternal, 5389. 

is hid, 5361. 

is more than a dream, 5388. 

is one, 5381. 

is precious, 5376. 

is truth, howe'er it strike, 5387. 

is truth in each degree, 5386. 

is truth to the end, 5359. 

know then this, 5513. 

mv love swears she is made of, 
1270. 

needs no flowers of speech, 5369. 

needs not oaths, 5394. 

shall error father, 1425. 

some, there was, 26>6. 

strangers to the voice of, 5370. 

the growth of, 1451. 

the hour-hand of, 5385. 

the only lasting treasure, 5527= 



i'O-J. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Truth, the strife of, with falsehood, 
1140. 

the, you speak, 5358. 

to side with, is noble, 1139. 

true as, 5378. 

which cunning times put on, 3677. 

while you live tell, 5360. 
Truth's fountains may he clear, 5379. 

house has a single door, experi- 
ence, 1489. 

no cleaner thing than love, 5391. 
Truths are portions of the soul, 2029. 

blunt, do mischief, 5368. 
Tulip, then comes the, 5398. 
Turkey smokes on every board, 5399. 
Turkeys, man preys on, 5399. 
Turnips, if a man who cries, 2767. 
Turnpike road, a delightful thing, 

5400. 
Turtle beats them hollow, 5401. 
Tweedledum and tweedledee, 1263. 
Twelve years ago, 644. 
Twenty times thou liest, 1152. 
'Twere well it were done quickly, 

1135. 
Twickenham's, in, bowers, 5404. 
Twig, as the, is bent, the tree's 

inclined, 1351. 
Twilight fell on the sea, 5408. 

gray, 1433. 

groves and dusky caves, 3178. 

spirit that dost render birth, 5417. 

upon the earth, 3507. 

welcome, 5416. 
Twins of winged race, 4679. 
Two hands upon the breast, 1091. 

hearts that beat as one, 5432. 

of a trade, 5315. 

strings unto your bow, 4267. 
Tyrannous, I knew him, 5422. 
Tyrant, how fine this, 867. 

man, revels at large, 5426. 

preserve me from a, 1710. 

should take heed, 5425. 
Tyrants' fears decrease not, 5422. 
Tyrants, how can, govern, 5419. 

seem to kiss, 5423. 

'twixt kings and, 5424. 

use it cruelly, 3834. 

where, vex not, 2005. 
Tyranny, her, had such a grace, 1529. 

of blood and chains, 5427. 

shall quake to hear, 1800. 

tremble at patience, 2443. 

Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 

5812. 
Uncle, me no uncle, 5430. 
Unconsidered trifles, 715. 
Understanding traces them in vain, 

4069. 
Undeservers, sell your offices to, 3637. 
Ungrateful, he that's, 2433. 
Unhand me, gentlemen, 5220. 



Unhappy, a grand and comely thing 

to be, 2100. 
we are not alone, 5867. 
United we stand, divided we fall, 1698. 
Unkindest cut of all, 5434. 
Unkindness may do much, 2855. 
Unknowing what he sought, 5440. 
Union of hearts gives pleasure birth, 

3116. 
strong and great, 3762. 
Universe, the, is girdled with a chain, 

360. 
Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural 

troubles, 753. 
Unseen, unknown, 4757. 
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, 

1684. 
Unwept, unhonored, and uusung, 

4507- 
Unworldliness, brothers' love exceeds 

all in, 1797. 
Upstarts, insolent in place, 3281. 
Urn, storied, or animated bust, 1075. 
Use, by immoderate, 5053. 

doth breed a habit iu a man, 964. 
Usurpers sway the rule, 5438. 
Utterance, give, to thy heart, 5364. 

Vacancy, you bend your eye on, 3026. 
Vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, 

203. 
Vale beneath the hill, 5033. 

deep in the, 4375. 
Valentine's day, in chorus on, 5443. 
Valet, ring for your, 4734. 
Valiant, he's truly, 845. 

I do know, Fluellen, 847. 
Vallombrosa, leaves that strow the 

brooks of, 17. 
Valor, full of, 1306. 

his, and his mind, 2763. 

is the chiefest virtue, 846. 

is the salt to other virtues, 349. 

preys on reason, 5446. 

shows but a bastard, 4975. 

the better part of, is discretion, 
1245. 

the name of, 5554. 

wisdom doth guide his, 4738. 
Value, we rack the, 5. 
Vanities, ye lying, of life, 5449. 

with varying, 5498. 
Vanity, insatiate cormorant, 5447. 

preys upon itself, 5447. 

what a sweep of, 5448. 

what will not, maintain, 5451. 
Vapor, sublimed to, 4877. 
Vapors and clouds and storms, 5665. 

and wit, parent of, 4857. 

from the marsh, 3290. 
Variety, a blessing from, 5444. 

custom stale her infinite, 5456. 

is the spice of life, 5455. 
Variety's the source of joy, 5453. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



753 



Vassal and lord, 2006. 
Vaunting true, make your, 4739. 
Vengeance, 1 shall see the winged, 
5458. 

in, there is scorn, 5459. 

in thy day of, 4168. 

to Grod helongs, 4316. 

wolves in their, 4414. 
Venice, I stood in, 5461. 

once was dear, 5461. 

there is no power in, 5463. 
Venison, a rogue with, 2327. 

thanks for your, 5464. 
Venom, thy deadly, 2478. 
Venturing, compassed oft with, 5465. 
Venus, immortal queen, 5467. 

power of love, 5466. 

smiles not in a house of tears, 
5133. 

sovereign of the whole, 5467. 
Venus' doves, 2806. 
Verbosity, he draweth out his, 5471. 
Verdure o'er the earth, 4875. 
Vermin can destroy, 4646. 
Verona brags of him, 1900. 
Verse, cursed be the, 1734. 

a, may find him, 3878. 

in time to come, 3971. 

sweetens toil, 5469. 

to write true, unfeigned, 3900. 

whoe'er offends slides into, 4334. 
Verses, mean as mine, 3888. 
Verse-makers beg, 3911. 
Vessel, a brave, 4574. 

many a, threads the gates, 2243. 

the empty, makes the greatest 
sound, 432. 

yon anchoring, 1369. 
Vessels, large, may venture more, 553. 
Vice, a good old-gentlemanly, 280. 

by action dignified, 5475. 

can bolt her arguments, 5477. 

confederacies in, 1842. 

deceit hides, with a virtuous 
visor, 1126. 

how soft are thy ways, 5483. 

in the kicked there's no, 4405. 

is a monster, 5480. 

makss mercy, 3212. 

prosperous, 5479. 

so simple, there is no, 5472. 

that low, curiosity, 946. 

with a virtuous visor hide, 1126. 
Vice-chancellors, whose knowledge, 

5484. 
Vices, of our pleasant, 2507. 

our pleasant, 5474. 

small, do appear, 166. 

weeds out, 3819. 

what a mansion have those, 5476. 
Victims, the little, play, 4453. 
Victories, after a thousand, 5590. 
Victory, graced with wreaths of, 5488. 

the moment of, 851. 



View, distance leads enchantment to 

the, 1273. 
Views, ten thousand frantic, 2473. 
Vigor and youth dance, 5519. 

from the limb, 5895. 
Vile, 'tis better to be, 4252. 
Villager, the, born humbly, 5490. 
Villain, a, with a smiling cheek, 1123. 

horrible, 5221. 

if some eternal, 4644. 

one may smile, and be a, 4708. 

which is the, 5493. 
Villanies of nature, 5494. 
Villany, let, forswear it, 2525. 

no vizor doth become, 1708. 
Villas, suburban, 5492. 
■Vine, clings to the wall, 4807. 

companion of the, 2459. 

to plant and propagate a, 5657. 
A r iolence, far worse to bear than, 1683. 
Violent things quickly find a term, 

2945. 
Violets lade the»ambient air, 1725. 

spring from her fair flesh, 1032. 
Virgins soft as the roses they twine, 

3085. 
Virtue alone is happiness, 5513. 

alone is nobility, 3546. 

and knowledge, 5499. 

and religion dead, 5828. 

and sense are one, 5526. 

and worthiness, 3935. 

assume a, 5504. 

best gift of heaven, 5525. 

ebbs and wisdom errs, 5144. 

flies from and disdains, 5510. 

for its ground, 5220. 

gives, indirect applause, 2330. 

has majesty in death, 5521. 

has no tongue, 5477. 

his countenance will change t:>, 
3935. 

in, nothing could surpass her, 
5528. 

is beauty, 5433. 

is its own reward, 5507. 

itself turns vice, 5435. 

kills not the buds of, 5517. 

let, stand aloof, 5371. 

lost to, 4758. 

makes the bliss, 5518. 

may be assailed, 5505. 

may choose, 5514. 

meets many a friend, 4202. 

more apt to slacken, 4327. 

on his outward parts, 2310. 

our present peace, 5524. 

outbuilds the Pyramids, 5523. 

peace is all thy own, 2125. 

seek, 5506. 

she blundered on some, 2375. 

some fall by, 4605. 

some mark of. 5472. 

starves while vice is fed, 5511. 



754 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Virtue, the amaranthine flower, 5527. 

the mind matures, 5522. 

too much zeal may be had for, 
1394. 

too painful an endeavor, 3294. 

turns vice, 5470. 

valor is the ehiefest, 846. 

we rind the, 3946. 
Virtue's cause, he died in, 1557. 

guide, 550. 

monuments shall last, 5523. 
Virtues are not understood, 3956. 

graced with external gifts, 5501. 

her fairest, 5800. 

if our, did not go forth of us, 1457. 

nothing could surpass her, 722. 

several women for several, 27S1. 

their, we write in water, 1559. 

which in parents shine, 134. 
Virtuous and vicious, 5509. 
Vision, he cannot realize the glorious, 
2362. 

so glad a, 5294. ♦ 

the baseless fabric of this, 1272. 

was it a, 3531. 
Visions, crude disjointed, 5449. 

of the other world, 4799. 
Vocation, to labor in his, 5530. 
Voice, a still small, 1724. « 

divine reverberated, 4906. 

her, changed like a bird's, 5532. 

her. was ever soft, 5531. 

is still living immortal, 1346. 

let thy, ri senior me, 4003. 

of a deep life, 1548. 

that is still, 4809. 

the small, within, 765. 

to hear a, 2773. 

your words float in your, 4839. 
Voices utter the same wills, 5081. 
Void, no, left aching in the breast, 

2912. 
Volcano, the, ministers to good, 5534. 
Volume, in the soul's honest, 4508. 

within this, lies the mystery, 394. 
Votes, the price of, 820. 
Vow, he that strains a, 3574. 

no man takes a, 5537. 

the plain single, 3567. 
Vows, breaths the softest, 2900. 

dismiss your, 2371. 

hot and peevish, 3572. 

may be broken, 5536. 

the usual vows, 2968. 

"Wager, back their opinions by a, 391. 

"Wagers, fools for arguments use, 390. 

Waistcoat, upheaved his, 5401. 

Waller was smooth, 1317. 

W 7 all-flower, the, is sublime, 5542. 

"Waltz, endearing, to thy more melt- 
ing tune, 9~83. 
imperial, imported from the 
Rhine, 982. 



Waltzing, to turn her head with, 3152. 
"Wander at will, 4v_n. 
Wanderer, the, lonely, friendless, 3759. 
"Wandering, in, and care, 5543. 

thou knowest not whither, 3617. 
"Want can separate friends, 14'.»4. 

gives to know the friend, 3957. 

is a bitter good, 3956. 

of decency is want of sense, 3241 

the prayer ol 

the slave of, 4393. 

what an amorous thing is, 3303. 
War, a kind of civil, 2622. 

and slaughter, 4403. 

bewails the, 3114. 

chiefs out of, 5402. 

even to the knife, 5576. 

gives immortal fame, 5568. 

horrid war, 5566. 
- 1 call it murder, 5567. 

implements of, 5556. 

in, a weak defence, 3242. 

in all the trade of, 4301. 

in the skies, 4168. 

intestine, 5565. 

is a game, 5570. 

is a terrible trade, 5586. 

is honorable, 5582. 

is still the cry, 5576. 

is toil and trouble, 5561. 

let slip the dogs of, 5555. 

list his discourse of, 2636. 

no less renowned than, 3772. 

the elemental, 5171. 

the shock, the shout of, 5578. 

the show of, 4546. 

the storm of, broke out, 1267. 

then was the tug of, 5585. 

thou son of hell, 5551. 

to offer, 3107. 

to provoke, 4088. 

tug of, 297. 

unsparing as the scourge of, 4^5*. 
Warblers, ten thousand, cheer tn*,, 402. 
Warrior, famous for tight, 5590. 
Warriors, we are but, for the work- 
ing-day, 202. 
War's a brain-spattering art, 5574. 
Wars at first began, 5560. 

noise of endless, 2145. 

some write a narrative of, 244. 

in civil, 4168. 

tokens of old, 1803. 
Washington is a watchword, 5591. 
Watch, the, of his wit, 5697. 
Watches, each believes his own, 2514 
Watchman, to my heart, 60. 
Water from her heavenly eyes, 2053. 

glideth by the mill, 5595. 

glory in like a circle in, 192S. 

he trod the, 4573. 

in a sieve, 830. 

lies dark and silent, 4721. 

of mine eyes, 5126. 



IXDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



755 



Water, reckon what, is worth, 5593. 

smooth runs the, 1127. 

thy name, written in, 2486. 

virtues we write in, 5503. 
Water's worth, men know not, 5592. 
Waters after summer showers, 806. 

blue roll the, 3235. 

dark and deep, 2757. 

never look back, 4345. 

o'er the glad, 4481. 

she walks the, 4571. 

the disease of her sick, 4122. 

the surging-, 5164. 
Wave, here's to the brave on the, 4401. 

is breaking on the shore, 3496. 

of the sea, 976. 

reflects a gorgeous scene, 5025. 

succeeding wave, 4336. 

the yearning of a, 2772. 

walks softly, 5644. 
Waves are changing, 2749. 

are full of whispers, 5597. 

make towards the shore, 5240. 

on the tossing. 3621. 

so gaily curl the, 4395. 

spend her strength with, 2584. 

we have travelled on the, 3229. 

which vainly seek, 559S. 
Way, the better, was shown, 1458. 

whose care teaches thy, 4077. 
Ways that are dark, 5350. 
We are gentlemen, 1901. 

can make our lives sublime, 1588. 

cannot all be masters, 3151. 

have scotched the snake, 995. 

know what we are, 1872. 

know not what we may be, 1872. 

mar what's well, 5588. 

must all die, 3383. 

must awake endeavor for defence, 
841. 

must be free or die, 1802. 

sin against our own estate, 1164. 

watched her breathing through 
the night, 1100. 

will stand by each other, 2985. 
We'll not fail, 840. 
Weakness, I own my natural, 5580. 

if, may excuse, 5601. 

never need be falseness, 5386. 

one man's, 4728. 

thj-, hath brought thee nearer, 
2989. 
Weal, to the public, 3824. 
Wealth, beauty, and wit, 5832. 

can, give happiness, 5307. 

fine thoughts are, 5211, 

from, to poverty, 3957. 

get place and, 3307. 

ill-got, 5106. 

in the gross is death, 5610. 

is the conjurer's devil, 5603. 

may seek us, 5682. 

squandering, 4844. 



Wealth, the poor man's, 4068. 

well-dispersed, is incense, 270. 

without -.vit, 1781. 
Weariness can snore on flint, 4674. 

forget his toil, 5663. 

from, to rest, 4590. 
Weary of breath, 3279. 

stale, flat, and unprofitable, 5869. 
Weasels, sharp as, 707. 
Weather, then come the wild, 778. 
Wed or cease to woo, 1717. 
Wedding-day, a man may weep on 

his, 3260. 
Wedding-dresses, get the, ready, 3142. 
Wedding, never, ever wooing, 1717. 
Wedlock forced is a hell, 3112. 

is a glorious thing, 3132. 

wake in, dream in courtship, 
881. 
Wedlock's a saucy state, 3140. 
Weed, a weary, 4485. 

pernicious, 5282. 
Weeds are shallow-rooted, 5316. 
Week, w T hat! keep a week away! 4. 
W T eep, for the light is dead, 1002. 

I cannot, 2038. 

no more, lady, 1795. 

not for those whom the veil of the 
tomb, 1101. 

not that the world. 571. 
Weeping, I am not prone to, 5121. 
Weights, sink with their own, 5703. 
Welcome all, 1342. 

ever smiles, 5233. 

from his grace, 5614. 

the coming, speed the going, 2038. 

to our house, 5613. 
Welcomes, a hundred thousand, 3167. 
Weleomest when they are gone, 2067. 
Well, truth in a, 5395. 
Wells, dropping buckets into empty, 

25S5. 
West, in the red, 5415. 

the fading, 705. 

the, is broken into bars, 5412. 
Wet sheet and a flowing sea, 4399. 
What a name! 829. 

a tangled web we weave, 1133. 

a world is this, 1397. 

anxious moments pass between, 
771. 

can an old man do but die, 3649. 

can Chloe want, 815. 

care I how fair she be ? 

custom wills, should we do it, 967. 

dust we dote on, when 'tis man 
we love, 1060. 

he feared is chanced, 5058. 

I will, I will, 1201. 

is excellent is permanent, 4218, 

is it to be wise, 50SO. 

is like to thee? 2458. 

is wisdom? 5631. 

mighty contests, 539. 



756 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



WTiat ne'er was, nor is, nor shall be, 
4181. 

of thorn is left, 1584. 

our souls have missed, 5295. 

read you there? 1055. 

shall he be ere night? 1084. 

shall 1 do, dear? 1836. 

should be the fear? 1G57. 

though the field be lost, 850. 

valor were it? 780. 

we admire we praise, 3982. 

would the world be to us? 630. 

you have said I will consider, 768. 
What's a fine person? 282. 

done is done, 4253. 

gone should be pasi grief, 2039. 

he to me, or I to him? 

past, and what's to come, 5236. 

what, he knew, 2567. 
Whatever is, is just, 1619. 

is, is right, 4073. 
When civil dudgeon first grew high, 
801. 

shall we three meet again? 3166. 

two fond hearts unite, 3166. 
Whence and what art thou ! 1469. 
Where got'st thou that look? 960. 

is fancy bred? 1591. 

is the dust that hast not been 
alive, 1335. 

no hope is left, no fear, 1188. 
Whigs grow dumb, 5625. 

not getting into place, 5624. 
Whip, a, of scorpions, 5226. 

put in every honest hand a, 2560. 
Whirligig, the, of time, 5232. 
Whirlwind, rides in the, 5193. 
Whirlwinds keenly blow, 5675. 
Whistle them back, 1852. 
Whistled as he went, 5440. 
Whittington, turn again, 5626. 
Who but must laugh? 584. 

can answer where any road leads? 
1624. 

can hold a fire in his hand, 2358. 

conquers me shall find, 855. 

does not act is dead, 5290. 

finds not Providence, 4072. 

love too much, hate in the like 
extreme, 1497. 

loves too much, will hate, 2872. 

never doubted, never believed, 
5383. 

overcomes by force, 1756. 

read to doubt, or read to scorn, 
394. 

reasons wisely, 4152. 

seeks and will not take, 3663. 

sets me else, 1153. 

steals my purse steals trash, 1205. 

would be free must strike the 
blow, 1798. 

would not weep, 584. 
Who's stout and bold, 1372. 



Whoever thinks a faultless piece to 

see, 340. 
Whom the gods love die young, 1082. 
Why rebuke him that loves you, 2810. 

should the poor be Hat;, 'rod, 1703. 

should we fear to live alone, 477>i. 

so pale and wan, 2874. 
Wickedness, x method in man's 

is weakness, 5601. 

the measure of his, 4091. 
Widow, maid, or mother, 5808. 
Widows, may, wed, 5628. 
Wife, a, by nature wise, 3096. 

a light, 3102. 

a most perfect, 5749. 

a patient, sweet, 3104. 

he begged a, 5739. 

his homestead and his, 3014. 

I recommend as much to every t 
2476. 

I seek a, 5727. 

my true and honorable, 5733. 

neither doubt nor doat on a, 2304. 

outwitted by his, 3124. 

pretty, childish, weak, 5746. 

reason should choose a, 3108. 

the sacred name of, 5742. 

the welcome of a, 574S. 

the well-choosing of a, 3118. 
Wild-flowers are fringinsr the lanes, 

4483. 
Wilful men, to, 5631. 
Will, against my feeble, 3194. 

broad based on her people's, 5486. 

consents, my poverty, not my, 
3953. 

I must not quarrel with the, 4067. 

mankind praise against their, 
1209. 

mortals bend their, 5431. 

one faculty, the, 5781. 

star of the unconqucred, 5632. 

to stem a, 5785. 

to turn the current of, 5780. 
Willow, some die beneath a, 1097. 
Willow-tree, seldom rest on the, 5633- 
Wind, a charter large as the, 2665. 

a voice of greeting from the, 797. 

above the whistling, 4123. 

among the trees, 5640. 

blow, blow, thou winter, 2424. 

borne with the invisible, 4567. 

breathes not, 5644. 

I hear the howl of the, 5648. 

I loved the, 5639. 

he who depends on his, 4521. 

ill, turns none to good, 5634, 

in the shrouds, 4033. 

like a leviathan, 4931. 

little fire grows great with, 785,. 

more inconstant than the, 1288. 

of western birth, 5642. 

that freezes founts, 2417. 

the idle, which I respect not, 218ft 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



'57 



Tlnd, the, is rising, 5641. 

the, kisses the milkmaid's cheek, 
1422. 

the mead hath kissed, 5G3S. 

what, blew you hither, 5635. 
Winds and seas, more deaf to prayers 
than, 2113. 

and waves, 4400. 

are swelling round our dwelling, 
260. 

have sounded a retreat, 4879. 

in the pine, 4(525. 

their sabbath keep, 5650. 

whispering from the west, 5637. 
Windows and curtains, 4997. 

storied, richly dight, 537. 

the, spake, 3933. 
Wine and beer to strangers, 2276. 

and women, 5662. 

few r things surpass old, 5662. 

from, what friendship springs, 
5659. 

invisible spirit of, 5655. 

makes love forget, 4658. 

she pours her sacred, 3448. 

should be so deleterious, 1315. 

sweeter than, 4989. 

thy power and praise, 5593. 

'tis easy o'er a glass of, 5198. 

what cannot, perform, 5656. 
Wing, satire flies on falsehood's, 4430. 
Wings, beneath her white, 5060. 

fanning their odoriferous, 42S4. 

for the touch of thy light, 5653. 

gone on the wind's, 5263. 

her white, flying, 4571. 

riches wait but for, 275. 

that dip their, 4626. 

to fly with muffled, 4924. 
"Winter binds in frosty chains, 4492. 

chills the blood, 5289. 

chills the lap of May, 3380. 

comes to rule the year, 5665. 

creeps with tardy pace, 4490. 

has brighter scenes, 5671. 

his gloomy front uprears, 5675. 

is at hand, 546. 

is mother of spring, 2247. 

of our discontent, 3767. 

passes off, 4868. 

put away thy pride, 4489. 

spreads his latest glooms, 5669. 

the renovating force of, 5667. 

there is a shadow of, 266. 

with his cold, 3426. 
Wisdom and fortune, 5677. 

and goodness are twin-born, 5686. 

apply my heart to, 5684. 

centres there, 4524. 

forager on others', 2641. 

full as an egg of, 5055. 

in an earthly shape, 3490. 

is humble, 2573. 

it seems the part of, 2729. 



Wisdom, false, closeth the mind, 5688. 

finds a way, 5696. 

is rare, wit abounds. 5716. 

kindness is, 2517. 

let no railer tax creative, 1159. 

means a world of pain, 2577. 

memory the mother of, 3188. 

retires to solitude, 4754. 

the seeds of, 4276. 

true, heareth others readily, 5688, 

turns to folly, 2566. 

waiting on folly, 907. 

will be superficial, 5324. 

woman's, 5690. 
Wise, enough to play the fool, 1738. 

grave, perplexed", 2617. 

reputed, for saying nothing, 45S9. 

the wretched are the, 2352. 
Wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best, 

5779. 
Wish can prosper, 4667. 

every, is like a prayer, 5695. 

father to that thought, 5691. 

the, which ages not subdued, 2677. 
Wishes, our, lengthen as our sun de- 
clines, 96. 
Wishing, worst of employments, 5693. 
Wit, a Christian's, 5720. 

a, with dunces, 5712. 

although he had much. 5704. 

and judgment are at strife, 1515. 

and reason failed, 4505. 

beauty, and spirit, 140S. 

by love, is turned to folly, 2783. 

by, we learn, 5701. 

chaos of, 5709. 

cuts both friend and foe, 5702. 

diverts men from the road, 5706. 

his, invites you, 5719. 

in, a man, 583. 

is a jewel we need not wear, 5714. 

is an unruly engine, 5700. 

is but a plume, 5715. 

is like the brilliant stone, 5722. 

is nature dressed, 5710. 

is news only to ignorance, 2481. 

is out, when age is in, 82. " 

is sharpest set, 5717. 

men famed for, 5721. 

much grief shows want of, 2046. 

nothing goes for, 3549. 

the, brightens, 38S2. 

this fellow pecks up, 2479. 

the world's full of, 3S41. 

thousand escapes of, 3638. 

tickles, 571S. 

too much or too little, 5705. 

what a butcher is, 5702. 

winding the watch of his, 5697. 
Witchcraft, more than, 5783. 

what a hell of, 5134. 
With all thy faults, I love thee still 

1388. 
Withers, our, are un wrung, 75. 



?58 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



Witlings sneer and rivals rail, 3848. 
Witness, the, of excellency, 3292. 
Witnesses like watches go, 2623. 
Wit's a feather, 2193. 
Wits and valors, 5703. 

arc despicable men, 2043. 

are gamecocks to one another, 918. 

are safe things, 173G. 

are to madness allied, 3028. 

deep subtle, 2576. 

have libelled all the fair, 5740. 

homely, 2167. 

leave this encounter of, 5678. 

neither critics nor, 924. 

this keen encounter of our, 1250. 

to madness are allied, 5707. 
"Wives, a random choice, 5741. 

are sold by fate, 3099. 

have made them fit for heaven, 
5744. 

in their husbands' absence, 2380. 

governed by their, 5628. 

may be merry, 5729. 

revolted, 5732. 

that have revolted, 3109. 

when, are dead, 5747. 
Wiving goes by destiny, 3101. 
Woe, a ponderous, 425S. 

a world of sentimental, 818. 

awaits a country, 5141. 

death ends a mortal, 1045. 

gloomy is the house of, 3386. 

one, treads on another, 4794. 

our share of, 1762. 

succeeds a woe, as wave a wave, 
533. 

teach me to feel another's, 3223. 

the splendor of, 5150. 

the, that passion brings down, 
3728. 

the trappings and suits of, 4791. 

to nourish hopelass, 4298. 

to the youth whom Fancy gains, 
1595. 
Woes cluster, 5752. 

rare are solitary, 5752. 
Woman, a, impudent and mannish, 
57G7. 

a, moved, is like a fountain 
troubled, 153. 

a, perfected, 5801. 

a pretty, is worth some pains, 5788. 

a, scorned, 2116. 

a softer man, 

an excellent thing in, 5531. 

believe a, or an epitaph, 934. 

frailtv, thy name is, 1792. 

if, is there, 5820. 

if you wish a, ill, 5798. 

in our hour of ease, 5812. 

is the lesser man, 5827. 

loveliest gift, 57S9. 

lovely, 57S4. 

loves* her lover, 2415. 



Woman, man that lays his hand on a, 
902. 

man who sets his heart on, 5822. 

may give her mind, 0820. 

mixed of such fine elements, 5828. 

need not fear a dearth of words, 
805. 

nothing lovelier in, 0737. 

she is a, therefore may be won, 874. 

silence in, 4094. 

sweet as the presence of, 5020. 

that is like a clock, 0727. 

the best, 5704. 

the clamors of a jealous, 2461. 

the last, the best, 5794. 

the life of, full of woe, 5813. 

the peculiar grace, 5795. 

the, that deliberates is lost, 2898. 

the voice of a good, 5776. 

thou art a, 5816. 

to play the, 5128. 

was made of man, 5774. 

what will not, dare, 5818. 

when, stoops to folly, 1794. 

who is't can read a, 5768. 

who trusts to, 5775. 

will not use a, lawlessly, 5756. 

with his tongue he cannot win a. 
871. 

a shameless, 5799. 
Woman's a contradiction still, 5792. 

a, counsel, 5786. 

a, nay, 5771. 

a, noblest station, 5800. 

breast, not much he kens of, 885. 

faith traced ou sand, 5824. 

funeral wail, 4765. 

grief is like storm, 5823. 

happiest knowledge, 5735. 

history, a fact in, 3145. 

love is mighty, 3368. 

love writ in water, 5824. 

mood, to break into this, 5096. 

pitv sometimes makes her mad. 
3838. 

plighted faith, 2381. 

tears, 2321. 

transient breath, 5791. 
Womanhood and childhood fleet, 5910 

good, heroic, 5814. 

she grew to, 884. 

the fulness of her, 5829. 
Womankind, faith in, 3370. 
Women and men delight in gewgaws 
4631. 

are angels, wooing, 3947. 

are cloudy, 5782. 

are frail too, 5758. 

are so simple, 5731. 

are soft, mild, pitiful, 5765. 

cannot love where they're be 
loved, 2795. 

find their spheres, 5787. 

give our eyes delight, 5797. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



759 



Tomen, honor to, 5755. 

I have liked several, 2781. 

in, two ruling passions, 4371. 

kindness in, shall win love, 2-317. 

know the wav to rear children, 
643. 

nature did bestow eyes on, 1508. 

O ye good, 1767. 

pardoned all except her face, 1409. 

placed together, 5766. 

royal-hearted, 5830. 

so horrid as in, 5769. 

the souls of, 57S1. 

weep for joy, 3943. 

were made for men, 3123. 

when, are froward, 5763. 

should never he dated, 98. 
Women's weapons, 5130. 
Woo the fair one, 5836. 

the masquerade to, 3122. 
Wood, heap on more, 666. 

shadows of a mighty, 1760. 

the dictator of the, 43(35. 

wind moans in the, 257. 
Woodlands brown and bare, 4723. 
Woodman, forth goes the, 5835. 

spare that tree, 5347. 
Woods, a stoic of the, 4925. 

along the, 5172. 

are an ever-new delight, 1758. 

are still, when all the, 3534. 

in fading, 255. 

bending above the, 3629. 

mimic of the, 3291. 

more free from peril, 4282. 

senators of mighty, 3566. 

sigh to her song, 3535. 
Wooed, we should be, 5759. 
Wooer, a sweet and passionate, 3352. 

young, fresh, loved, 1958. 
Wooing thee, I found, 878. 
Wool, locks like the fleece of, 2083. 
Word, a courteous, 1857. 

a reputation dies at every, 4727. 

an ill, may empoison liking, 5837. 

at random spoken, 2138. 

doubled with an evil, 5305. 

gone without a, 3699. 

in that fatal, 1602. 

learn to speak this, 3536. 

the, explains itself, 3489. 

the, that spake it, 5320. 

they spake not a, 108. 
Words, a dearth of, 805. 

a few of the unpleasantest, 2653. 

all, are faint, 3801. 

are but pictures, 5844. 

are but wind, 3579. 

are faint, 593. 

are like leaves, 1364. 

are no deeds, 1968. 

be made of breath, 4496. 

chaste, from bashful minds, 5075. 

do move a woman's mind, 1918. 



Words, familiar as household, 1556. 

few and precious, 5687. 

graced with the power of, 3668. 

have power to assuage, 5843. 

his, are bonds, 579. 

however, are things, 5850. 

ill deeds are doubled with evil, 
144S. 

immodest admit no defence, 3295. 

learned by rote, 5102. 

like sunbeams, 832. 

make a song, 5S51. 

my, are only words, 5847. 

never to heaven go, 3985. 

no, can paint. 593. 

of length and sound, 1367. 

once spoke can never be recalled, 
5S45. 

our, have wings, 5848. 

that burn, 5208. 

that kindle glory, 1S1. 

thy, are bigger, 476. 

to tell my grief. 4796. 

to weigh out. 4842. 

when, are scarce, 5839. 

when we want, 2871. 

without thoughts, 5840. 

you have bereft me of, 2816. 

your, bring daylight, 5849. 

your t rob the bees, 5066. 
World, a fleeting show, 5878. 

a good deed in a naughty, 1455. 

a, of faults, 3298. 

a, of permanent bliss, 2974. 

all that is great in this, 3355. 

all the uses of this, 5869. 

conduct the, to freedom, 1801. 

contagion to this, 3504. 

good-bye, proud, 1093. 

hath nothing to bestow, 2093. 

he doth bestride the narrow, 2019. 

how beautiful is this, 5876. 

I am in this, 3371. 

I have not loved the, 2389. 

I hold the, 5863. 

if all the. 5875. 

if the, and love were young, 2875 

is a great poem, 5879. 

its flames undermine the, 5534. 

knows not which is which, 4G39. 

let me tell the, 4235. 

let the, spin forever, 572. 

like this, fear not in a, 858. 

little of this great, 4740. 

must turn on its axis, 2722. 

o'er all the freshened. 4124. 

of vile faults, 4060. 

one day is enough to find a, 1024. 

possession of the, 3950. 

6ee how the, rewards, C14. 

steal from the, 4757. 

the antique, 161. 

the, believes no more, 1711. 

the birthday of the, 3161. 



760 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



World, the blows and buffets of the, 
1181. 

the, changes, f>71. 

the cooings of tbe, 5874. 

the friendships of the, 1842. 

the, goes up and goes down, 790. 

the, is all title-page, 2328. 

the, is an inn, 795. 

the, is deceived with ornament, 
3676. 

the, is grown so bad, 4322. 

the, is not thy friend, 3274. 

the, recedes, 1064. 

the, was all before them, 1475. 

the, will grow more fair, 3993. 

there is no color in the, 3555. 

this earthly, 58GS. 

this pendant, 5870. 

this working-day, 5865. 

'tis a busy, 4648. 

to furnish a, 4570. 

too much respect upon the, 5864. 

too noble for the, 4614. 

wander through the, 3961. 

what a, is this, 5866. 

what is this, 5873. 

what surety of the, 3357. 

will be in love with night, 2839. 

without a home, 2168. 

without a sun, 359. 
World's, all the, his soil, 5322. 

as full of wit, 3841. 

mine oyster, 480. 

the, an inn, 5872. 
Worlds, God's will in his, 3741. 

present and past, 4368. 
Wolf, the, dies in silence, 1773. 
W T olves, silence, ye, 4539. 
Won, I am too quickly, 2840. 
Wonder, it gives me, 3168. 

our special, 4040. 
Wonderful, how, is man, 3067. 
Work, how blest a thing is, 5860. 

in every, regard the writer's end, 
237. 

is its own best meed, 5859. 

is my recreation, 5861. 

my, is mine, 2421. 

that will not speed, 5085. • 

turns genius to a loom, 1894. 
Workers, true, and true lovers, 5856. 
Workings, the hum of mighty, 3442. 
Workmen strive to do better, 4949. 
Works, best of all God's, 5777. 

how mighty are thy, 3460. 

if faith produce no, 1541. 

of labor or of skill, 2402. 

rehearse their own, 3S94. 
Worm, learn of the, to weave, 2449. 

that hath eat of a king, 5881. 

the man who sets his foot on a, 
941. 

the smallest, will turn, 744. 
Worms, food for, 2000. 



Worms shall perish on thy clay, 963. 
Worse, appear the better reason, 113C. 
Worship and quietness, give me, 3765, 

without woi ds, 5882. 
Worth and station. 3288. 

by poverty depressed, 3958. 

courage, honor, . r >'.)4. 

makes the man, Ass:;. 

praise distains his, 3d73. 

what is. in anything, 3302. 
Would they might seem none, 3043. 
Wouldst thou know others, 4")26. 
Wound, he feels the, 4859. 

he jests at scars, who never felt a, 
1484. 

to inflict a cureless, 2416. 
Wounds of deadly hate, 4176. 

unnumbered, 487. 

wept o'er his, 4743. 
Wracks, a thousand fearful, 4478. 
Wrath, come not within my, 5885. 

wild in, 695. 
Wreck to the seaman, 4928. 
Wren, no better a musician than the, 
3530. 

the poor, 628. 
Wretch, a needy, 3955. 

an inhuman, 936. 

a needy, hollow-eyed, 5887. 

concentred all in self, 4507. 

light-hearted, 3485. 

or happy, rich or poor, 3245. 
Wretched, the, he forsakes, 4681. 
Wretchedness, art thou so full of, 
3954. 

estate of human, 3996. 

leave me in, 4855. 
Wretches, poor naked, 725. 

that depend on favor, 861. 

that depend on greatness, 1649. 
Write, sit down to, 3893. 

some, a narrative of wars, 244. 

till your ink be dry, 875. 
Writing, ease in, comes from art 

3880. 
Wrong forever on the throne, 5892. 

him who treasures up a, 4313, 

impatient of the, 4311. 

the tender fear of, 5185. 
Wronged, when we are, 2523. 
Wrongs, learn to dissemble, 588. 

Year chases year, 2717. 
each succeeding, 3650. 
enter upon thy paths, 3497. 
he that dies this, 1042. 
loveliest season of the, 189. 
ruler of the inverted, 5674. 
some wither every, 5846. 
the, is hasting to its close, 3558. 
the labors of the, 4930. 
the saddest of the, 269. 
the sunset of the, 256. 
the various, 253. 



INDEX TO QUOTATIONS. 



761 



i'ear, three hundred pound a, 3298. 

two hundred pound a, 692. 
Years, a moment pours the grief of, 
3192. 

condemned whole, in absence to 
deplore, 7. 

difference in, makes the yoke un- 
easy, 3118. 

following years, 5894. 

gone down into the past, 4225. 

he wears the marks of, 3648. 

his, must sweeter be, 4224. 

boards for future, 4329. 

1 sigh not over vanished, 5896. 

ploughed with, 3081. 

roll on more gently, 5230. 

steal fire from the mind, 5895. 

the accomplishment of, 5893. 

the wild waste of, 4347. 

through the, 1837. 

vale of, 88. 

young in, old in experience, 
1897. 
Tell, an Indian, 4141. 
" Yes," I answered you, 5900. 
Yes or no, 3012. 

Yesterday, day forever dead, 5899. 
Yesterdays have lighted fools, 5292. 
Yet doth he live, 1482. 
You say you nothing owe. 1114. 

shall hate it both, 3097. 
¥ oung forty years ago, 4090. 



Young, the, may die, but the old must, 

1109. 
Yours, one half of me is, 2815. 
Youth, a virtuous and well-governed, 
1900. 

and fire cool, 3072. 

and pleasure meet, 984. 

beauty, wisdom, 3798. 

fades, love droops, 3369. 

flourish in immortal, 2366 

how beautiful is, 5911. 

how buoyant are thy hopes. 590a. 

I wandered in my, 3899. 

is not rich in time, 5257. 

is wild, age is tame, 1260. 

know of your, 3562. 

loveless to unrespected asre, 81b 

many a shining, 4297. 

of fresh and stainless, 2798. 

the flourish set on, 5241. 

the gravity of your, 4250. 

the happiest, 1869. 

the quick fire of, 2822. 
Youths and virgins say, 5442. 

Zeal and duty are not slow, 5913» 

for reform, 4185. 

is a dreadful termagant, 4451, 

his, none seconded, 5914. 

out of season, 5914. 

too much, for virtue, 4409. 
Zephyrs, bland, breathed, 515. 



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